The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-12
,erica Leads World Ln Moue To End Wars
America

of the various nations, who will sup ply the facts and figures that will form the basis of the discussions.
 Around the edge of the big square | room were half a dozen rows of seats l One entire side was occupied by the press representatives of the world. The rest were given over to specta- 1 tors, the high dignitaries of the Gov ernfnent-the members of the Cab inet, the members of the United States Supreme Court, Senators and | R Representatives and distinguished foreign visitors.
 The first day is expected to be de, voted largely to getting acquainted with the surroundings and hearing the conference will tackle the first two questions which press imme- diately for decision.
 One Of these is the degree of open | other is the arrangement of the pro gram already outlined by Secretary of State Hughes. While the question of open or clos ed sessions is to be decided by the conference as a whole, it is not eX- pected that many Of them will be open or that any of the important work of the conference will be con- ducted under the scrutiny of the pub lie or the press.
 The American delegation, it has been stated, is prepared to urge the fullest maximum of publicity consist ent with the wishes of the visiting
 
 delegations.
 The general impression prevails that the sessions will be mostly closed and that the few sessions that are to be thrown open will be largely speech making occasions which will be Of little or value In determining the trend of the conference or providing an insight into the workings of the conference.
 The preparation of the conference agenda, or program, is exnected to be accomplished with but little diff1- culty.
 It is probable that as soon as the preliminary organization is effected the conference will split up into nu- merous committees to deal with the various aspects of the problems pre- sented. i. e., one committee to deal with New Agencies of Warfare an- other to consider Railways of the Far East" etc
 It is the plan of the American dele. gation to have the conference pro- ceed concurrently with the discus sion of Armament Limitation and Far Eastern questions.
 T. has been advanced from some quarters that the conference should first take up and dispose of the con- troversaI questions of the Far East ment Limitation. The argument ad- vanced in support of this contention is that it will be useless to discuss limiting navtes unless the Powers can
 
 Far East
 The more radical proponents of Armament limitation and the advo- cates of complete disarmament take the opposite view that the conference should get. to work and dispose of armament questions first, and then, with armies and navies in the back ground and out of the way, take up Far Eastern political and economic matters.
 Between these two schools of thought is Secretary of State Hughes backed by the American delegation He believes that the conference will move more quickly and accomplish better results by taking them up to- gether-leaving to the naval experts the matters of navy, to the army men consideration of land armament and to the diplomats and political leaders the matters affecting China and the Pacific.
 The American delegation in this position has the support of the Ja- panese delegation, and little difficult ty is expected to be encC -ntered in reaching an agreement.
 The conference adjourned at 12:22 without Great Britain having made any response to the American pro- posaIs, until Tuesday, at Il a. m.
 The conference adjourned without either Great Britain or Japan, the only two powers affected by the first pro- oosals making known their attitude on speech by A. J. Balfour, nominating Secretary Hughes for the chairman ship of the conference, was the 'off1- cial British statement at the opening session and she would make no fur ther statement at this time.