The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-27
AT THE PARLEY'S HEART

In Washington the Anglo Japanese alliance is fading, dssovng, making ready to be lad away in the lavender of memory. It has given the Japanese much prestige and Great Brtan a certain security For nineteen years it has endured, but in most ways ii has outV"d it's usefulness.
 The Reds of Moscow may be d menace, but they are not the same sort of menace aS that Russian bear of the Czar that looked over the HimaIavun passes and left his tracks on the benches of the Pacific Germany IS out of the play; Berlin has faded from tn" pie turr The two nations, against whom Eng land and Japan drew together, are down and temporarily done for. At present this c"lo- hratcd alliance s regarded by some British and most Australians and New IcaInmdrrs as a sort of pledge that Japan will not take Melbourne overnight. Canada is against It; South Africa indifferent; Great Britain is in many minds about it.
 It keeps obtrudiug itself in Washington The Americans do not like it. These United States regard it as d menace All the fair words that have been spoken and all the brautItuI as surances that have been given have failed to remove our distr1Ist. So long as 1t cndur"s "the-hands-across- thc-sca" speeches and tn" 'blood- od-is-thckcr- than water" talk will be at discount The alliance is there, and it cannot be explained away.
 The American proposals for proportional disarmament are based upom the death and dcceut burial of this alliance. Try adding the strength of the proposed British and Japanese navcS and then compare the total with the proposed American limit, and you will see this IS so.
 If Japan and Great Britain are to break the alliance, they will demand something in pay ment
 London and Toko cannot get it out of their minds that the easiest way will be to talk" America in as a partner and form triple alliance or tripartitc agreement, or a three party understanding. Such an arrangement would not have the provcrbial "Chinaman 's chance' in this country. Mere mention of it makes the Senate irrccOnciabcs snatch their battlc-aXcS from the wall. If the men from Tokio and London are doubtful about this, let them listen at the kcyholcs of the Scnatc's conference rooms.
 No recipe for sugar coating an alliance that this country will swallow it has ever been connected. If the conference can make one, it will achieve first-cIass miracle. When will the chess players of diplomacy learn that this country will walk in Gethsemanc and face crucfixion rather than become a party to alliances, agreements or understandings, d". fcnsvc or offensive.
 One of the big jobs of the Conference is to find a way to put this alliance to death, pain lcssIv and mobtrusivcly. If is woven and tangled with the Japancst demands ''for reasonable economic outlet" in the Orient with that vague and sprawling problem of China and the Far East's "opcn door" Ii must be dissected, eherized and put away
 The Far East, momentarily lost to sight in the drama of the conference opening, remains the heart of the problem. The Anglo-Japanose alliance lies in the center of that heart and at any moment may become the over-powcr- ing issue of the barley.