Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-01
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~ -D~nrDgG UrUUUTAlE VII

SneCial
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. America be-
leyes that too many cooks may spoil
Il broth at the conference on limitation
of ornaments 1t has been announced at
the White House that the United States
delegation, as originally planned, would
he confined to four members. Other ma
tions are at liberty to send larger or
smaller delegations, as they choose, but
America will be represented at the con
ference table only by Messrs. Hughes,
Lodge, Root and Underwood. Tentative
proposals to enlarge each governments
delegation to six were made in Great
Britain ten days ago and have been I'M
dergoing informal consideration at Wash
gton. The Administration has come to
the conclusion that everything the
United States has to say and hopes to
accomplish at the conference can be
handled better by four than by six men.
Great Britain's interest In a large mum
Der sprang from the desire to give the
oversee dominions direct representation.
She now is at full liberty to do so, as
far as America is concerned, SO the prob
ability is that the British Empire rather
than the British Isles will have Its
table. 1t is pointed out at the State De-
partment that the size Of national dele
cations is inconseQ uentiaI. Votes will be
| taken by countries irrespective of the
number of their representatives The
British Empire with six delegates, or
Japan with three, will have Just as many
votes as and no fewer than. the United
States with four delegates. viz, one vote.
Thus far only the Japanese govern
ment has notified the State Department
OF the exact size and con .csttion Of its
/ delegation Japan states she will have
/ three principal representa- ives-Prince
! Tokugawa, Admiral Baron Kato and Am
| bassadOr Shidehara-but reserves the
( privilege of increasing the number later
/ Meantime cabled advices to the State De-
/ partment brought the names of the for
midable STAFF Of subordinate officials com
/ Ing from Toxic. They include five higher
( officials of the japanese diplomatic serv,
| Ice headed by Masanao Hanihara, vi.
minister Of foreign affairs, formerly ~Ssta
/ TONED In Washington; nine secreta rio.
/ OF the Foreign Office, four trSnsJat,rS
TWO ehancellors, three spectsl appointeet
Of the Foreign Office, th1ee secretaries OF
department Of finance seven officers OF
Lne army headed oZfMat. Gen. Kunishike
iAuaAa7 ana tWeIW officers of the navy
headed by Vice admiral KanIf Kato. Tn.
/ forty eight representatives of Tanan con,
stltute lncom parably the most imposin z
foreign mission Japan ever has dispatched
abroad. Its dimensions are interpreted
"a Washington as indicating in unmis-
taxable manner the extreme importance
the japanese attach to the conference
and their intention of taking its delibera.
lions seriously.
With the expected brigade Of japanese
newspaper men. estimated at from fifty
to seventy five in number, the Nipponese
element in Washington during the con-
ference era is likely to overshadoy that
Of any other country barring only the
United States. A handsome residence in
Sixteenth street has just been engaged
as social headquarters for Japanese at
/ tending the conference. 1t is to be known
as the Nippon Club. Another home in
/ Massachusetts avenue has been lea sed as
an official headquarters for the Japanese
delegation, in addition TO living quarters
at the Shoreham hotel.
Disappointment prevails in Washing
ton that neither Mr.. lloyd George nor
N. BRAND plans to lead. respectively. the
British and French delegations through
out the conference. There is no disposi-
| ton to attribute to that circumstance
( any lack Of genuine British or French
| interest in the objects the conference is
called to achieve. Advices contiL uing to
reach the State Department are all to
the effect that while none of the invited
powers is coming to Washington In any
misguided spirit OF achieving the millen-
mum, all are coming in the confident hope
| Of arriving at decidedly worthy while re-
! sults.-Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger
/ Company.