New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Angglo-U. S. Pact
Held Hope of
w orld Peace

England. This fact emphasizes the
power that the dominions now enjoy
and the influence their spokesman
The practical end Of this under
standing will receive it's real test
when the disarmament discussion
opens in Washington. 1t was the
original view here that the ground
work could be laid in series Of pre-
liminary conferences, but Washington
did not sympathize with this opinion,
and consequently the disarmament con-
ference will take place in the presence
of Representatives of all the nations
invited by President Harding and
Secretary Of State Hughes.
The influence of the dominions is
expected to be strikingly apparent in
these discussions, for they are de-
cidedly interested in an Asiatic set
Element. Naval appropriations also are
a highly important issue with them.
The Westminster Gazette says to-
day on this point:
eve look to the British Empire and
the dominion governments, as we'll as
the British government, to give clear
lead to the world against the doc
trine of the mailed fist and acknowl-
edge that the pursuit of safety by
ornaments is a myth. The day when
any one power can, by virtue OF its
army and navy, declare itself unas-
sailable and independent of it's neigh
bors is past, and the power which is
most likely to prosper in the world
is that which clearly recognizes this
fact and shapes it's course according
"The world presently will witness
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one kind of national development and
another. On one side is Germany, de-
feated in war, stripped Of her arma-
ments and shut into a limited terri
tory in Europe. The other is Great
Britain, victorious in war, still heavily
armed and extended all over the
world.
Warning to the Allies
Germany has her indemnity to pay
off, but she has no ornaments to main
tain. no Mesopotamia to drain her re-
sources, no foreign adventures to dis
tract her energies, no liabilities out
side her own territory and nothing to
distract her from the intensive cult
walton of her own soil and industry.
What an Industrious. able population
of from sixty to seventy-five millions
may do under these conditions may yet
astonish the world, and most of all If
we and other nations drain each other s
wealth competing in ornaments and
scatter our resources and energy over
vast spaces of the earth, which we are
unable either to govern or to exploit.
Seriously, it will be open to doubt,
if the victorious nations start again in
the old way of mutual antagonism,
whether they will not have handed the
fruits Of victory to the defeated enemy
and whether in thirty years time he
will not have built up an Industrial
and political power and restored the
prosperity of his people in way which
will be the envy Of them ALL"
General SHUTS left London this af-
ternoon to catch steamer at South
amrton for Cape Town. The South AZ
rican Premier, who played distin-
guished part all through the confer
encc and was largely instrumental in
carrying the Irish negotiations to the
point they have now reached, said he
was satisfied with the progress made
and that he attached the greatest i'm
portance to the coming conference at
Washington.