The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-12
NATIONS LOOK
ON DISARMING
With FAVOR
F favorable Responses Re-
ceived from All but One Of
Powers to Which United
States Submitted Message.
MAY CONFER NOV. II
(Ry Associated Press,

WASHINGTON, July 12-Favorable
responses are understood to have Deen
received today from all but one of the
powers to which the United States
suggested a conference on reduction
of armaments and related questions.
Although so far there has been no
thing in the negotiations as to details,
administration officials, have been so
encouraged by the attitude of other ma
tions, that they have already given
some attention to some questions, as
the date on which the meeting shall
begin. One suggested prominently
under consideration is that Nov. IL,
Armistice day selected.
The exact object to be taken up at
the conference are understood not TO
have received detailed consideration,
but officials were said to feel that
there was no reason why the con-
versations might not logically lead
to a plan for the association of ma
tions advocated by President Harding.
BERLIN. July 12.-The Volks lei
tung describes President Harding 5
invitation to disarmament conference
as "a political event of foremost i'm
portance." and says:
IF the American President succeeds
in carrying his undertaking to sue
cessful conclusion, then the nations of
the world will have realized the long
ing of centuries, and President Hard
ing will have set up for himself a
monument more durable than the fame
of all the generals of history"
The Tageblatt. believes that the
status of the United States places her
in favorable position to carry out the
conference. It points out that Pres
ident Harding has seized the oppor-
tunity to take the initiative, which had
almost been lost, through Great Brit
aims suggestion that the Anglo-Jap-
anese past. be made the subject of
discussion among the three powers.
If the complicated experiment pro-
posed by President Harding succeeds.
it will in all probability, resolve itself
into gigantic clearing house enter
prise" is the Tageblatt's prediction.
Predicts Difficulties
The proposed conference, the Tage-
blatt believes, is wholly inspired by
American and British naval rivalry,
the prevailing tension of the Ameri-
can-Japanese situation and the diff
cult and complicated issues wrapped
up III the pIOpltLu VI tuS dClllCs
The Pan-German organ, the Tages
Zeitung, doubts whether a practical
solution of the problem will be as
simple as it appears in theory. II
thinks a self conscious nation like
the United States with its vast front.
age on the Atlantic and the Pacific
will insist on maintaining a formid
able navy" and questions whether
ha he -to in he
American-Japanese relations will
prove conducive to the creation of an
atmosphere for International discus
sion of the disarmament issues"
Valuable Index
At any rate, says the Tages Zeitune
in conclusion, the spirit in which
received will be valuable index to
the attitude of the different nations
toward the presidents project.
The Vossische Zeitung declares thai
in designating Washington as the
place for the conference, President
Harding proposes TO avoid the error
made by his isolated predecessor al
Versailles as both the president anC
the American delegates then would be
in a position TO keep in close touch
with congressional and public opinion
LONDON, July 12.-The world is or
the eve of one of the most epocha
events in history This is the verdic
of the newspapers and statesmen here
following President Harding's offer
and the British governments accept
ance, in connection with the holdins
of a conference for the discussion o.
the limitation of ornaments and pa
cifc problems. The scene in the house
of commons yesterday afternoon wheI
Premier Lloyd George announced
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