The New York herald., 1921-07-11
LONDON Times SAYS
BRITAIN Will ACCEPT
Calls Harding's Proposal
Timely and MOmentous
for All Humanity.
HARVEY NOTE BEARER
Ambassador Visits Lloyd
George and the Dominion
Premiers to Explain.
HARVEY NOTE BEARER
MAKES POINTS ALL CLEAR
Much Interest in Statement
Which Is to Be Made To-day
in Parliament.
BIZ the Associated Pnsas.

LONDON, July IL (Monday).-In an
editorial this morning on the disarma-
ment question, the London Times says
there can be no doubt that President
Harding's conference proposal will be
gladly and promptly accepted by the
British Government with the full con-
currence Of the Doninions in the spirit
in which It has been made
The paper urges caution and perspi-
cacity in the preparation of the agenda
for the conference and In the prelim-
mary negotiations of agreed solutions
to every principal point on the agenda,
declaring:
''Only when such solutions have been
found should conference be formally
convoked- Otherwise it may fail, and its
failure might well be the prelude to
disaster. But given prudence and care
full respect for legitimate susceptibtlfties,
given an entire subordination Of per-
sonaIities and personal ambitions to the
great object in view. it may. and should
succeed, to the veal Of the nations rep
resented and the lasting benefit of hu-
manity at large"
Warming In Paris Conference.
In this connection the Times says;
The course of the peace conference at
Paris may, in some respects. serve as
a warning and deterrent"
statement as a "momeptous and timely
one, the paper declared 1t opens a new
and hopefully fruitful phase Of the Pa
cifc problem, adding:
The task of the proposed conference
will be as delicate, and. unless discern
ingly approached. as dangerous as any
that any conference ever essayed to dis
charge. Not even the Peace Conference
at Paris had to face issues vaster or
fraught with greater possibilities OF good
and evil to the world"
Referring further to the Paris Confer
ence. the Times continues: Its lack Of
method. its practice Of approaching hap
hazard most complicated problems and
its errors in allowing the heads of gov
ernments to address themselves first
hand to matters that ought to have been
carefully threshed out In advance by ex-
pert subordinates. made 1t byword
among all who understand the impor-
-tance- of sound method and careful pro-
cedure"
Premierr with Lloyd George.
Noting that the Dominion Premiers
we're guests for the week end of Pre-
mier Lloyd George at Chequers Court,
the Times says it can hardly be sup
posed they had no inkling Of the Inn
minence of President Harding's initia-
tive, and that they did not discuss
among themselves the expediency Of
Pacific conference. II adds
IF In any respect the information at
their disposal was faulty. It may we'll
have been corrected by the arrival OF
the American Ambassador in the course
of the afternoon. doubtless as bearer OF
the official proposals from the President.
II this is So the arrival of the proposals
was especially timely. for 1t may have
served to preclude misapprehensions
into which the Prime Minister and his
dominion colleagues might otherwise
nave fallen In consequence of made
quate information with regard to the
position of the United States.
Now there can, fortunately. be no
danger that any statement the Prime
Minister may make to-day in the House
of Commons will be made without full
knowledge of the true position"