The New York herald., 1921-10-30

be marked by the impressive ceremonies at
the burial of the Unknown Dead in Airing
ton Cemetery
On the second day the conference will
begin in earnest to determine whether the
nations can in the future live without the
prodigious ornaments which are to-day
thought necessary. Thus on November IL
President Harding in Continental Hall of
the d. A. r. Building will deliver the key
note address 1t is not known which of
the delegates will follow the President
Very likely it will be a member of the
British delegation, and if Lloyd George be
here the second speaker will no doubt be
the famous British Premier
Although there has been no official an
nouncement, it is believed that presiding
over the conference will be Charles Evans
Hughes, Secretary of State and head of the
american delegation The third and fol-
lowing days of the conference will see the
delegates assembled in the Hall of the
Americas in the Pan-American Building
Occasionally, however, to satisfy public
curiosity other semi-official meetings will
take place in the D. "A. r. Building, but
OF the conference will be done behind
closed doors, in the committee rooms, in
drawing rooms of fashionable Washington
houses in hotel apartments and a hundred
and one other places where the world dele
gates will gather
The number of countries hidden to the
conference on limitation of armaments
and Far Eastern questions is fixed, of
course, but these delegates do not, by
dozens, complete the number of assistant
delegates so to speak, who are in Wash
ington or on the way there. Already so
many assistants and experts have arrived
as to cramp the resources of Washington
hotels. lodging houses and apartments.
How much of the real work of the dele
gates will be made public as it proceeds is
not to be arrived at by guessing. Very lit
tie. it is said by those who know some
thing of the ways of world diplomatists,
but they say also that the great demand OF
the public for open discussion may have
weight. The United States as host to the
Powers cannot lay down the rules. Per
haps on the second or third day of the con
ference it will be decided what to give out
and what to keep en- camera
OtClCtdly Ilubhco' hVNtNcis hdo ga
pressed his purpose privately to give out
from time to time statements setting forth
the attitude of the United States as the
.parleys proceed.
There are many details concerning the
parleys yet to be announced. The names
of the advisory committee of fifteen, two
OF them to be women, who are to assist the
four American delegates in every way pos
sible have not been given out by President
Harding. Some foreign delegations have
even larger encourages, while others have
none at all.
The agenda of the conference has al
ready reached the public, but no announce
ment has been made whether the Far East
ern question win come up first or follow
the disarmament question: the feeling Is,
though, that these will proceed concur
rently In the settlement Of the Far East
ern question is bound up the Chinese ques-
ton. The Chinese problem. IL is thought,
Is one of the most menacing.
China is to be represented by a divided
delegation, representing respectively the
north and south Chinese republics. Minor