The New York herald., 1921-09-22
NATIONS TO ACCEPT
AGENDA FOR arms
PARLEY FIXED BY us.
No Objections Expected to
Insistence in Specifying
All Subjects.
SUGGESTIONS BROAD
Method Permits Simulta.
neOus Consideration of
Major Problems.
FAR EAST MAY TAKE LEAD
Question of Limitations in
Warfare Also Is to the
Forefront.
FAR EAST MAY TAKE LEAD
Special Despatch TO THE New YonK HERALD.

Special Despatch to THE New YoRK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. c., Sept. e1.
The nations which will participate
in the approaching conference on
ornaments have made no decisions
relative to the suggested agenda sub
mitted by the American Government,
but 1t was made known to-day that the
Stnte Department had received no OBJ
jections to the proposed basis of dis
cussion.
1t is known here that this Govern
ment is prepared to accept a definite
agenda for the conference if one is
desired by the participating nations,
but il this is insisted upon the United
States will have it's own ideas as to
will insist upon specifying by name
and title every item that might nat
urally come under the head Of the dis
cussion of Far Eastern problems.
1t was made plain in official circles
to-day that while limitation of arma-
ments leads the list of subjects in
cluded in the tentative suggestion for
the agenda, this does not mean that
this subject should take precedence
over all other discussions. On the
contrary, it Is realized that the Far
Eastern problem includes the SUBJ
ject Of disarmament. While some ma
tons may discuss limitation of arma-
ments first and others may desire to
discuss the Far Eastern questions
primarily, the method OF the suggested
agenda makes possible simultaneous
discussion of both problems.
Subjects Arc Broad.
| The subjects suggested by the State
Department relative to armament are
sufficiently broad to make It possible to
come to an understanding on every fea-
ture of this important decision. Section
2 Of the proposed agenda deals with
the control Of new agencies OF warfare,
and while the suggestion is extremely
brief, II will furnish one of the most in
teresting subjects OF discussion. These
new agencies, including chemical war
fare OF every form. deal with the most
romantic possibilities of the future and
with the most horrifying conditions OF
possible warfare. The nat,ons In con-
ference cannot possibly do otherwise
than devote the most intense thought u
this subject.
The State Department. in an official
statement to-day. made public the sug-
sestions which 1t has made on the form
that the agenda for the conference
should take. and the statement is In line
with the preliminary outline previously
published several times In THE New
YORK HERALD. The American Govern
ment Is committed to the idea that the
agenda should be general in scope, yet
sufficiently definite to include all Of the
issues involved.
The specifications attached to the Far
Eastern question, where such headings
as territorial integrity, administrative
integrity, open door, concessions. devel-
opment Of railways, including plans to
develop the Chinese Eastern Railway,
preferential railroad rates, status of ex-
isting commitments. &c." bring within
the scope of the conference practically
all of the problems dealing with the
Far East.