New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

century are bound to be strengthened
or relaxed by what happens in Wash
ington. If we cannot act in unison
now there is slight reason to believe
we ever can.
"The project of raising from the
straining backs of peoples the burdens
of great armaments offers line of less
resistance than Awas ever before pre-
sented. No less essential is the re-
uoval of the causes of war, which still
hover over the Pacific. More difficult.
in the fact that all such dread posi-
biiities have disappeared from the Al
lantic?
"OnIy Beginning"
"The Washington conference marks
only the blazing of the trail-only the
beginning. Yet greater works are to
aspirations of all mankind, pursuant,
we may well believe, to the design Of
Almighty God"
Ambassador Harvey concluded by as.
suring Premier Lloyd George, Arthur
J. Balfour and their associates in the
delegation to Washington of "a most
grateful welcome"
The dinner tonight to the British
delegates was great gathering of
notable men, including some of the
most prominent members of the govern
ment. Lord Lee of Fareham, the First
Lord of the Admiralty, already has
sailed for America, and Mr.. Lloyd
George was detained by the debate in
the House of Commons on the Irish
question, so that Mr.. Balfour was the
only delegate present.
Mr.. Balfour and Ambassador Harvey
were the. principal speakers on the
program, besides Lord Desborough, who
presided. Baron Havashi, the Japanese
Ambassador, was present, as were also
Lord Curzon, the Secretary for For
eign Affairs; II. A. L. Fisher, presi-
dent of the Board Of Education; Sir
Alfred Mond, Minister of Health: Sir
Laming Worthington- Evans, Secretary
for War; Ian Macpherson, Minister of
Pensions; Sir Robert Horne, Chancellor
of the Exchequer; the staff os the
American Embassy and Robert p.
Skinner, the American Consul General.
Gratitude Due Harding
message was read from the British
Premier, in which he said:
81 shall share to the full the earnest
hope and belief your gathering will
express in the work to be done at the
great conference at Washington, which
am hoping keenly to attend For sum
moning it the world owes President
Harding debt of sincerest gratitude,
and we shall do our utmost to insure
its success"
The Japanese Ambassador, Baron Hs-
yashi, said the delegates were going
to Washington not thinking only of the
| interests of their own countries, but of
the welfare of millions scattered
throughout the world. They were all
thinking how to reconstruct an eco
nomic world and relieve the crushing
burden of taxation, he said. AS Wash
lngton was receiving the delegates with
open arms, SO the delegates were 60
ing there with open hearts, the baron
added.
Mr.. Balfour, Lord President of the
Council, said that the speeches of Am
bassador Harvey and the Japanese AM
bassador created the feeling that the
success of the conference was assured.
One of the greatest difficulties aris-
ing through the maintenance of arma-
ments, said Mr.. Balfour, was the sus-
plcion created among nations that
other nations were going to attack
them.
He did not doubt that if the prophets
OF thought throughout the world did
| what they ought to do in directing pub
lie opinion they would never again suf-
fer the horror of seeing a great civil
lied nation slowly building military
| strength for the purpose of dominating
its neighbors. He did not suppose that
the evil of ornaments was going to be
removed as if by a surgeons knife; the
situation could not be dealt with
rapidly.