New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-24

Disarmament Farley to Begin
Where Peace Treaty Left Off
american Position in international Affairs Depends
Upon Restoration of World Equilibrium, Which
Is Disturbed by Versailles Pact

which failed at the last session and
was repassed couple of weeks ago.
gave him only s40S, 600, 900. In the
absence of any international agree
ment Congress has been holding down
naval expenditures in pursuance of its
general policy of retrenchment.
The Borah resolution recruited an
other body of supporters, however
They were the remnants of the pacifist
group, very powerful in Congress be-
fore the war, which looked on disarma-
ment as an end in itself In the
fanstical imaginations of this group
the safest way for the United States
to keep out of trouble Is to put aside
all thought of either attack or defense.
In his first message to Congress after
the war broke in Europe. President
Wilson stated this doctrine admirably
when he said, deprecatinG any real mil
itary preparation, that such prepare
ton would mean chat we had lost our
self-possession, that we had been
thrown off our balance by war with
which we have nothing to do. whose
causes cnnoc touch US. whose very
existence affords us opportunities Of
friendship and disinterested service
which should make US ashamed of any
thought of hostility or fearful prepare
ton for trouble"
War Experiences Silence
Unpreparedness Advocates
The bitter experiences Of the war
silenced for time these once noisy ad-
vocates of unpreparedness. But they are
again obtruding their ideas about the
desirability of disarmament for its own
sake. In the Senate a substitute for
the Borah resolution was offered by
Mr.. Pomerene, calling for a cessation
of American naval building, whether
Japan agreed to call halt or not.
What many of the supporters of the
Borsh resolution failed to see is that
limitation of naval expansion. except
as a temporary financial expedient, can
be only palliative so long as the
conditions which lie behind the desire
for greater naval and military pre-
paredness continue unchanged. The
reason why the United States wants to
have a stronger navy, as we'll as the
stronger navy, is to be found in the
troubled situation in the Pacific. Our
policies and Japan's clash-not so
much on the immigration question or
on the race equality question, as On
the question of our political and COM
mercial relations to China and the
other non-Japanese portions Of Eastern
Asia
Cover il up as much as diplomacy
and the externals of friendly inter
course may, there is q fundamental
divergence of interest in the Pacific
between Japan and the United States.
What most we'll informed japanese and
Americans know, but seldom say
publicly, A. M. Pooley, an English
Far Eastern authority, the discoverer
of Count Hayashi's Secret Memoirs,
blurts out in a recent book. Japan's
Foreign Policies. He says: "The Amer
ic@n-Japanese disputes did not begin in
America. They had their origin in
Manchuria. Whether the jap
ancse are Monaghan race and SO un-
able to be naturalized in America is
side issue. The real problem is
whether or not the Japanese are to be-
come the masters of the Pacific and
the dominators of Oriental politics"
The United States is a Pacific power,