Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-05
BRYCE AND CECIL WRITE
VIEWS OF ARMS FARLEY
Take Pains 10 Tell British,
Public Of U. S. Views
OH Militarism.
ENrLA,N THE MORAL PURPOSE
Experts on International Politics
Assure FrirnIs OF League of Nn-
tionS That They Have Nothing TO
Fear.
Lspecial Cahle 10 Times. Dieratch.

Especial Cable to Times Dispatch. |
LONDON. Dec. 1.-Two OF Eng
lands foremost experts on interna-
tional politics--Niscount bryce ana
| Lord Robert Cccil-in Il recent Issue
of the Contemporary Review give
voica 90 the enthusiastic attitude to-
ward the Washington conference
more Guicscently adopted. but never
thcless sincerely held by public men
in this country generally.
Viscount Brycc--undoubtcdly the
greatest student Of American affairs
on this side OF the water-takcs the
greatest pains In his article to place
before the British public the Views ot
the United states toward militaris.n
and world affairs and stresses the
need for careful steps in the Far
Eastern settlement Lord Robert
Cecil stresses the moral purpose be-
hind the conference and assures the
friends of the league OF nations they
have nothing to fear from 1t.
Greatest Skill IL Needed.
Those who have followed the
movements of opinion in America
since the great war" Whites Lorl
Bryce, will not be surprised either
AT the enthusiastic support given by
the people to the Presidents pro-
posais 10 hold II conference for re-
duction of ornaments, or the pleas
IRE with which they have received
the hearty acceptance of Great
Britain. or of the clear and bold plan
outlined by Secretary Hughes. both
the President and his Sccretar: OF
State already enjoyed the confidence
and respect Of their fellow country
men. Their present action Will fur
Their strengthen their position and
will show MIR. Hughes TO be what
those who know him personally long
believed him TO he, one OF the ablcst
and strongest public men America
has possessed in generation"
Dealing with Japan's relations with
China in Shantung and Manchuril,
Niscount I!rycc says:
The greatest skill is needed to
adjust these relations and to stabil-
izc conditions i'm China itself, vast
country with an industrious. intclli-
gent population apparently drifting
II not into anarchy, towards separa-
ton into three groups OF provinces.
north, south and west. Politically
! weak, China has nevertheless a high
national pride and a keen national
susceptibility. She will. need to he
helped TO cXtricatc herself from the
morass into which the revolution u!
1911 plunged her But to find the
mode in which help is to be given
without wounding her susceptibility
and creating most troublesome politi-
cal contriNanCcS--a joint protcctoratn
of several foreign powcrS-rcuuires
both tact and resourceful ingenuity.
Fortunately the aims which should
govern the British and American pol
icy are the same. so we may hope
for their honest and close cooper
alton"
Omcns Arc Favorable.
May we unfcigncdly rejoice that
so good beginning has hccn made"
N....
the omcns are favorable. Reduc-
ton of armamcnts which 1T the first
Hague conference was shipwrcckci
on the granite rock OF German oppO-
Sit!on seems now at last III sight.
Success will mean an immense adj
vance toward general tranquility. IN
iucalcu liable boom to this weary ana
distracted world"
The essence OF Lord Robert Cccil's
remarks follow:
1T is, ! think. OF great Importance
that the immense value of the WASH
inEton conference should be under
stood by those who support the
league Of nations i'll this country.
There is, To begin with, Il vast i'm
pctus toward peace ana against war
created by the widely advertised eN-
iStcncc OF such n conference. Con-
fcrcnccs to divide the spoils or wa.
conferences to compromise about the
Spoils instead of going 10 war haN"
been the accustomed machinery OF
old diplomacy. But a conference
whose avowed and sole object is the
preservation OF peace is on Il differ
cnt plane. There Is q moral purpose
behind it which is characteristic %
a new international outlook.
First Steps That Count.
| "Thc minds men can not fail to he
impressed ty something so arrestinE
and, alas. so rusual. IT is the first
steps that count in the adoption OF
so much in the future OF the impos-
sihility OF making u change in human
nature. We shall not bc So afraid
in the future OF the vested inter
ssts that appeared so Formidable. we
shall have valuable precedent To
which we can appeal.
above all, the return Of the
United States TO the orbit of world
politics is Il victory for international
cooperation OF no small Importance.
THAT she should have recognized the
necessity for doing so is itself All
asset and 1T is safe to say the con
tinuous accumulation of those ncceS-
sites make IL Improbable. that she
viii ever again resume her unpro:-
liable isolation. She has returned
in thousands OF newspapers 10 in
nuncrabic readers her hatred OF war
and her belief in peace"
Copyright, 1921, Public Ledger COD