The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-11-25
FARLEY OUTCOME
IS NOW APPARENT
MINOR DETAILS ALONE REMAIN
TO BE WORKED OUT; RE-
suit CALLED U. S. VICTORY
Bitterness Between France and Emo.
land Growing Intense As SEES
s!ons Progress; Japan Well
Pleased With Conference

Washington - The conference of
Washington is practically over. All
that remains to be done is minor and
despite present superficial quarreIs and
chickering's, the results could be written
soday. These results will be:
/. The limitation of naval construc-
hon, plus measurably scrapping the ex-
tsting units.
z. The postpOnement and not impos-
sibly the prevention of an American,
Japanese war.
3. The acceptance on the part of
each country of set of abstract prin-
ciples in the far east without any form
Of guarantee for their application.
A. In some way, not yet quite clear,
the elimination of the Anglo-Japanes
alliance.
! The price of the first achievement
Is the surrender by the United States
Of the power placed in its hands by
the last war to become the supreme
naval country of the world.
The price of the second result will
be the recognition of the special rights
and interests of Japan in all of the far
east, but particularly in Manchuria,
suchrecognition duly testified to by the
surrender on the part F Great Brit
ain and the United States of that nav
Il power which would permit success
full challenge.
The price which the United States
will receive in return for the accept
'nce of the third point will be a ia
panese agreement to retire from Shan
lung and from Siberia. The disappear
ance of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
will be the compensation that Mr..
Hughes will receive for not pressing
the far eastern question as it had been
expected it would be pressed in the
beginning. ~
These results will be regarded in the
United States as a great victory for
Mr.. Hughes and for American diplomacy
On the continent of diplomacy. On the
continent of Europe the Washington
conference has already been hailed as
victory for British diplomacy even
more completed and far-reaching than
that of the Paris conference.
In Great Britain there will be tend
ency to depreCiate British achievement
and regret that no greater curb has
oeen placed on Japan, no serious effort
made to reduce French arms, and fin
ally no closer association Between the
United States and Great Britain ac-
tually arranged. Nevertheless, the
British people will rejoice in the es-
cape from a naval competition with
the United States, which they could
lot afford, or from voluntary surren-
der of sea supremacy to which they
could not reconcile themselves.
Not improbably the Washington con-
ference will be instantly attacked by
many so-called liberals the world over
rs offering no relief for existing af-
Elections of the world and representing
10 forward step toward international
association or toward the league of ma
IONS
On the other hand there will be q
general disposition in this country and
england to accept Mr.. Hughes estimate
and regard the Washington conference
as first step in the direction of in
,ernatfonal understanding. Mr.. Hugh
ss' conception that the way to begin
was begin, and that the limitation of
naval ornaments was the one specific
and definite thing which could be done
has prevailed, has made the conference
what it has been, and the ultimate
success or failure will depend Oh
whether, as Mr.. Hughes believes, the
present session proves a beginning or
IN isolated incident.
One further consequence of the
Washington conference is likely to be
he final dissolution of Anglo-French
les. The bitterness here between the
wo nations has been more acute than
generally known. NJ. BRAND and
Mr.. BalfOur, for example, have never
alled upon each other or met except
n the accident of the conference or
IN social occasion. French support of
he American thesis in the matter Of
submarines has aroused British re-
sentiment which is likely to disclose
itself in a startling fashion after the
conference.