Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-01

internal does not view with alarm
the Dutch and Belgian possessions
in the Pacific.
Japan is Reluctant.
Japan is reluctant to give up her
treaty with Great Britain. She
sent her heir to the imperial throne
to England the last summer to give
eclat to the negotiations for renew
al of that reaty-negotiations which
have been postponed a year, while
the treaty remains in full force and
effect. Japan's pride will be hurt
if Great Britain deserts her at the
Washington conference. Japan
would nave great i'll will toward
France and Italy if those two coun-
tries should turn their faces against
her and array themselves openly
with the United States on matters
affecting the Pacific and the east.
Therefore the Washington con-
ference, in SO far as the eastern
and Pacific problems are con-
cerned, resolves itself into this: In
any "show down" with Japan the
United States must have the sup
port of Great Britain, France and
Italy To vote with the United
States and against Japan these
three nations would have to turn
down loyal ally in the world war;
an ally who was in the fight from
the start and who did what was
asked of her regardless of the fact
that, as Lord Northcliffe said, a
few days ago. she was we'll paid
for all she essayed. 1t is not rea-
sonable to suppose that Great Brit
ain will repudiate her treaty with
Japan or that France and Italy Will
turn their backs upon this friendly
nation, which menaces them in no
respect, unless. and until, they
have some assurance of a quid pro
quo from the United States. These
are the questions our early visitors
are already asking in Washington
and they are recognized as but the
forerunners of more embarrassing
after the conference gets under
way.
Discussions in Private.
It is becoming more and more
apparent every day that the discus
sions within the conference will be
of such a delicate nature as to
make public sessions virtually i'm
possible. There will, of course, be
some public session and finally a
show of publicity, but after all the
methods of the old world and of
the Orient cannot be changed over
night and so the controlling decis-
ions of the conference will be made
behind closed doors. They may
not be the closed doors of the coun-
Gil chamber but they will be the
closed doors of embassy cloisters
and sequested after dinner re-
treats.
The five great powers attending
the Washington conference will be
the United states, Japan, Great
Britain, France and Italy. All of
these powers, it must be remem-
bered are members of the council
of the league OF nations-all ex-
cept the United States. All of
them were induced to make the
league Of nations part of the
treaty OF Versailles, through the
persistence of the American dele
CATION at Paris. The spokesman OF
all of these nations have at one
time or another expressed the sem
timent that the United States had
legal and constitutional right to
withdraw from the agreements en-
tered into at Paris, but all have
left the inference of the moral OBJ
legation involved,
Are Coming Hopeful.
All of the reports reaching
Washington from Europe agree
that the nations are coming to the
ornaments conference hopeful that
out of 1t will grow broader Amer
lean foreign policy than the one
dictated by the senate curing the
last two years. If they Ire bluntly
told there is TO be no change, that
we are willing to undertake no OBJ
legations whatever in Europe, there
is no doubt they will politely but
firmly inquire just why they
should become entangled in Ameri-
can and Japanese Pacific affairs If
the United States is unwilling to
lend a helping hand in Europe.
1t is the formally announced
purpose of France to ask for pro-
lection against Germany in return
for any Pacific support on her part
on in return for a reduction of her
land forces.
1t has been announced from
Washington that the conference is
to be an entirely practical one and
it is plain already that its agree
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