Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-19
SLOW AND SURE
STEPS FORWARD
FARLEY NATIONS
u. S. Content Not to
Rush Matters on Dis
armament
Confident Japanese Will Ultim-
ately LINEUP With Other
Big Powers in Attendance at
Proposed CONFERENCE.-THE a
Bit Chary on Far East Cues
ton

Washington, July 1S.-(By The AS
ISOLATED Press --While the State De-
partment is advancing it's negotia-
tons for the disarmament conference
as rapidly as it considers practicable,
theer is a wen defined feeling here
that time and preliminary discussion
arc working on the side of the Unit
ed States in it's effort to conclude
troublesome diplomatic problems
within the scope of the conference.
This belief is particularly manifest
just now with relation to Japan, the
only nation which has not yet ac
cepted unreservedly the American
suggestion that Far Eastern questions
be considered along with the general
topic of disarmament. Confidence
that such an unreserved acceptance
eventually will come from~Tokio has
Increased measurably among Amer
lean officials since the proposal be-
came subject of general discussion
throughout the Japanese Empire.
From the start it has been appar-
ent that President Harding ard his
advisers We're counting on the arous-
cd public opinion Of the world as their
greatest aid in moving for armament
limitation, and they had read press
reports and the comments of foreign
GiplomatiSts and statesmen with keen
interest to discover how impelling is
the sentiment in favor Of free and
frank exchange of ideas or all the
subjects threatening international
discord. This survey, so far as of
fcials have been willing to comment
on it, has aroused in them general
satisfaction.
Press reports from Japan. indicat-
ing that the question of full partici-
patton is one of lively debate there,
arc taken as q. welcome sign. The
same may be assumed also with re-
gard to London dispatches indicating
that British opinion hopes for a com
plete acceptance by Japan, although
for obvious reasons officials will not
comment on Il possible exercise Of
British influence to induce Toxic to
accede.
friendly factor in all of these consid-
erations. and that undue impa thence
might lead to a misunderstanding of
the real motives of the United States
in proposing the conference. is re-
parded as explaining the indisposition
of this government to hasten the pre-
lImlnaries. 1t was indicated today
that nothing definite had been done
toward physical arrangements nor
even toward the issuance of formal
invitation, and that it might be some
days before there was another. con-
crete development
One of the questions vet undecided
is who shall pay the expenses of the
visiting DELEGATIONS. It is customary
for commissions sent to such gather
lngs as peace conferences to be nro-
Vlded with funds by their respective
governments. but some official circles
here are in doubt as to the polite
course in the case of a conference in
which the participants are invited to
the soil of the nations represented.
should the United States feel call
ed upon to pay all the expenses of the
meeting, considerable approximation
by congress will be necessary. Be-
cause of this fact, the proprieties of
the situation arc likely to receive dill
gent study here in the near future.
Washington, July 1S-While the
preliminaries are in more or less of Il
waiting stage, officials are turning
over in their minds some of tho con-
crete questions of procedure that the
conference will have TO face when II