The Washington herald., 1921-11-06
FACE CAN BE WON ONLY BY
Far East Problem Is Only
Barrier to Be Overcome


ooMttnsed from Paes oss.
minister Of foreign AFFAIRS; yonk
beer +. Beslaerts van BlokIand and
DR.. Z. Moresco.
Representing Portugal - viscoun
dAlte and Augusta de vasconcelles
Harmoaious se..ie.s.
Harmonious initial sessions natur'
ally are forecast. Like all confer
ences Of this nature the preliminary
discussions will be conciliatory II
tone. whether the spirit Of com
promise now being exhibited viii b
continued after the knotty problems
TO be settled are fully consideres
around the conference table, witt
the general public and the news
paper correspondents excluded, onl,
the future will disclose. This IL {
subject on which the opinion Of ON
cial Washington Is sharply divided
Unanimous agreement must b
reached before any public announce
ment can be expected. Already tn.
public, has been warned not to ex'
pect too much. The keynote OF
what may be looked for was sounded
by no less a source than President
Harding himself. In this connec
ton he said:
What to Expect.
TT is very erroneous even to
suggest that we contemplate
going SO far as that universal
DISARMAMENT. II we can get q
reasonable Limitation we shall
think that great things have
been accomplished. By reason
able Limitation / mean some
thing practicable that there 10
a chance to accomplish rather
than an ideal that there would
be no chance TO realize. 1t 10
necessary to deal with actu-
alities: to do the best possible.
Universal disarmament would
be beyond hope Of realization;
even its desirability at this
time might well be questioned.
Thousands OF years of history
recording wars and controver-
sizes of mankind suggest that
human nature would require re-
evolutionary Reorganization to
make universal disarmament
possible. A consideration of the
present state of the world
must, ! think. enforce the con-
clusion that this is not a help
full time to undertake that
kind of revolution.
ON the other hand a world
with the horrors of recent ex-
periences scared into its mind,
and staggering under the load
- al
generously Justified our hope
for a favorable attitude toward
the practical effort. the sincere
beginning, that we are at
tempting. The fine spirit in
which leading nations have re-
ceived the invitation to meet
and consider these things 10
altogether. encouraging. To
undertake the impossible and
fail might leave our last state
worse than our first The at
titude of the nations warrants
confidence that we will not fail,
but rather that substantial re-
suits will be accomplished, call
culated to lessen the armament
burden and to reduce the dan
ger of armed conflict feel
that in such an effort We are
entitled to the support Of all
people who would be glad, as
1 can assure you l would, to
see STILL more accomplished II
possible"
Limitation IL Aim.
Because that Is the position of tn,
President and of the active Amer
lean representatives to the confer
ence, and because II has been in
dorsed In almost similar lanEuaE'
by the leaders OF the representa-
tives Of the other great powers
as will be seen by their utterance
in another column-it generally 4
believed that a program eventual,
will be devised whereby the grea
powers unanimously will agree I,
limit ornaments for at least a lin
tied period
But the immense problem Of tn
conference inevitably will mate
rtalize from the second portion o
the agenda to meet the problems o
the Pacific and of the Far East
The Chinese delegates who are her
declare that they want China's re
sources now under the control o
other nations turned back to China
They declare that China's territorial
integrity must be preserved. The.
want the real open door" and witt
1t investigation of alleged violation
Of this policy in the past and the,
plan to say so to the conference.
The shantunE Case.
This must at once precipitate int
the deliberations the Shantunl
agreement reached in the treaty o
Versailles, which now is a matte
of sharp differences between Chin
and Japan. Yet this is only q mino
phase OF the problems Of the Pa
cific." Not a single nation ca
adopt an altruistic attitude whe
this section of the program is un
der consideration.
1t must be remembered that tn
United States has more than 400
miles of frontage on the Pacif
counting Alaska, the Philippines
etc. Japan has some 2,7oo miles &
addition to the islands that sh
holds by mandate from the leagu
of nations: Great Britain approx
imately some 1000 miles; and tn
other participants fully a. mucl
and this does not consider the in
terests of the nations that, Will
not participating, yet must be CON
sidered In any agreement, reached
Votes Not to Count.
Because Of this. although up Z
the present time the limitation O
has been stressed as IN
main subject of the conference III
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