The New York herald., 1921-11-28
Progress Being Made Fast
in Acting Upon Details
of Farley Problems.
ECLIPSES PARIS MEETING
Review of Status at Washing
ton Reveals Different Meth
DDS and Results.
BY LOUIS sEIBoLD.

by LOUIS sEIBOLD.
Special Despatch 10 THE New YonK HEssLp
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C.. Nov. %.
The processes for making peace at
Paris and trying to keep peace az
Washington differ in many essentia
particulars. Conditions under which
the Washington conference is con.
Quoted are decidedly more agreeable
than those that existed at the French
capital.
In the first place. the programme
outlined by the Washington confer.
ence Is simple, less intricate and
more easily understood by the "man
in the street" and "the man on the
farm" than the Paris undertaking.
which was accomplished only after
the most rapacious ambitions had
been either gratified or suppressed.
In the second place. the Washing
ton conference up to date has been
conducted with a minimum intrusion
of rapacity OF national ambitions
and with more gratifying results
While the forms used at Paris and in
Washington are the same in general
outline, the methods of the present
conference are decidedly dissimila-.
There is little IL any secrecy or mys.
terry about the procedure employed.
to accomplish the vast reforms tn
which the United States Government
invited the attention of world Pow.
ers and proposed schedule of prin.
ciples designed to correct them.
Funda damentnIs Established.
Hence IL is that the average man
who keeps track of the daily chron-
icle of events knows that these i'm.
portant fundamentals already have
been established:
The most important nations on
the globe have been brought into
closer and more harmonious re-
lations to view their responsibili.
ties to the people of their respec-
tive countries.
The prospect for developing or.
ganized world leadership to under
take the stabilizing OF demoralized
political and economic conditions
have been greatly improved.
The attention OF the leaders OF
all Governments has been directly
focused on the necessity for gen.
uine cooperation among nations.
founded upon honor and integrity,
rather than on the hard and fast
rules of the League Of Nations.
which the present American Gov.
erment views as arbitrary and OBJ
jectionable.
The nations participating in the
Washington conference have been
brought to realize that It was not
initiated for the purpose of ex.
plotting selfish ambitions or to set.
tie personal or political grievances
and that the United States Gov.
ernment will not be a party TO
any international enterprise where
Il can be so exploited.
Reduction of Armamcn
The curtailment of sea srma.
ments has been generally agreed
to by all of the delegations repre-.
sented at the conference, I'm re.
sponse to the universal demand OF
the people throughout the world.
and the adoption of the essential
features Of the Hughes formula
for limiting naval armaments has
been made certain.
The restriction of land arma.
ments, while yet matter OF con.
troversy. will be settled with due
consideration for the unusual re.
duirements OF France, but with
proper regard for the objections of
some of her European neighbors,
which view the maintenance OF
any military establishment on
war basis as inimical to the future
peace OF the world.
The status of the submarine as
Legitimate device for defence
promises to provide one Of the
most interesting features Of the
armaments problems, because. Of
the incrassia& xsvulsion Of feeling