The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-22
This Country Can Get
Along IL There Is No
Agreement
CAUTIONARY WORD
-.,t BY GOVERNMENT
Wants No Artificial Interest In Results
of Conference Unanimity ON Sub
jects for DiscussiOn-Will Open Dis
cussion on All Questions.
NWnsEUEt Uff VUEotIVfkss
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
Especial Dispatch to The RefOrmer.)


Especial Dispatch to The RefOrmer.)
Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 90. - The
United States government is anxious to
avoid the creation of an atmosphere of
feverish expectation concerning the sue
cess or failure of the forthcoming confer
cnce on the limitation of ornaments and
Far Eastern questions
Cautionary word was passed out from
government sources yesterday in the hope
of offsetting any impression that the sue
cess of the conference is absolutely essen
| tial to the future well-being of the
United States.
Our government will get along no
matter what the outcome of the confer
cnce," was the way it was expressed
We are simply laying all cards on the
table in = simple and straightforward
way. we want to avoid spectacular eff
| fectS The development of anything like
super-intereSt would be a mistake for
we can continue to function with or with
out conferences
What VIII Happen?
| The significance of this utterance is
simply that so many people are begin
I
| in the world if the conference should
| fail to agree. Would it mean a race for
armament supremacy?
Also it has been suggested that if some
| of the powers get the idea that the United
/ States cannot afford to have the confer
/ ence break up without achieving results,
America would be in an impossible posi-
! ton at the conference table and might be
| in the uncomfortable attitude of host who
! could not differ with guests. No such
status is contemplated at this end. When
once the conference is convened, it will
| get down to business without any frillS
and without any conscious delicacy as
! to the American position.
Start All Topics at Once
! Exchanges OF view between the powers
| as to what subjects shall be included in
the program of the conference have de-
| veloped unanimity of opinion already
| The subjects are so broad in scope "a
permit of the widest latitude. 1t is not
| intended that there shall be any special
| order of consideration given to the topics
! Probably the entire program viii be gone
| over at the first conference and commit
/ tees appointed to threSh out moot points
| on each topic so that the whole program
will be in the works at one time. Some
| impression has been created that before
| armamentS would be discussed there
would be a lengthy discussion of Far
months before the real purpose of the
| Observation-Disclosures of armament
would be achieved That is not the basit
idea of the American delegation. 1t IL
! hoped that the experts who know all sub
| iects from technical angle viii be pu
to work at once and that the delegate
Will meet with them. Whenever a repOr
is ready for the full conference. ii will b
| taken up. OF course, everybody realize
that if friction is to continue in the Fa
| East. the limitation of armament will no
| be viewed as practical by the nation
concerned. But instead of waiting for a
agreement on Far Eastern questions, tn
conference will approach the subject o
limiting ornaments on the theory tina
before the conference is over an agree
ment on controversial points will hay
been reached Thus the world will hay
an opportunity to know what could b
| accomplished in the way of reduced eX
pense for armament and this infOrmatiO
may perform the service of leverage /
compelling reluctant elements in the cor
ference to come to an understanding %
Far Eastern questions.
To Curb Artificialsm
This explanation which comes froT
official sources is designed to answe
| those critics who have imagined that tn
American government bit off more tina
it could chew. when it lugged in Fa
Eastern questions along with the prof.
lem of disarmament The American del,
CATION believes all the subjects can b
handled concurrentlv and that while a
agreement on Far Eastern questions is
necessary prerequisite to any limitation {
armament, the whole program will /
thoroughly canvasSed before final dec
SiOns are made. Meanwhile there is
sensing here of superhuous excitemeI
over the conference. Perhaps this arise
from the elaborateness of preparation
being made to handle the conference i
self. possibly from the great amount {
attention being given it by the newsp;
pers But the words of caution nj
passed out largely to avoid an artific'
impression of what really can be accom-
| nlished OF what might hanpen if the COZ