Evening star., 1921-07-11
Francois Willing
If Protection
Is Assured.
TOXIC PACT ISSUE
NEARER SOLUTION
U. S. May Be Party
to Ne,u Anglo-Japa-
nese Agreement.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated lfesS.
LONDON, July 1l.-President Hard
ins's message looking to the calling Oh
an international conference on the Inn
itation Of armaments has been received
with the utmost pleasure by Great
Britain, MIR. Lloyd George. the prime
minister. declared in the house OF
commons today.
SpeakinR on the subject Of the Ameri-
can communication the prime WiHistel
said: ~ need not say that We welcome
with the utmost pleasure fresuent ;.;n
>Harding's wise and courteous lhiua-
tive ,a
The house cheered this statement and
~ :'ln saying that / speak for the en-
pire as whole ,, .o
treated as an independent in the con-
ference on Pacific affairs.
Awaited L. 8. Reply.
when I told the house last Thurs-
day I hoped to be in position TO make
a statement on the Pacinc and 1ar
eastern question today, the prime
: minister declared, I was waltlhs. %
! that had taken place between Loro
; C1Irzon and representatives of the gov
ernments of the United States ana
; China as result Of discussions IN the
imperial cabinet.
II am very glad to be able to inform
the house that the views of the gov
Eminent of the United States. which
, reached me last night, are extremely
satisfactory. The Chinese government
replied favorably. We have not as yet
had a formal reply from the govern
ment of Japan, but we have good rea-
son to hope it will be- In the same
sense.
Now that these views have been
received. l am very glad to be al Ho-
erty to inform the house fully regard
ing the course which the discusslon y.
the imperial cabinet took. l DO TINS
with particular satisfaction. because II
will show how very valuable step
forward we have been able to take by
common consent in the sphere OF 1or-
eign affairs.
Special Regard to Toxic.
..The broad lines Of the imperial pol
icy in the Pacific and the far east was
the very first subject to which we ad-
dressed ourselves having special re-
gard to the Anglo-Japanese agree
ment. the future Of China and the
hearing of both these questions on
i the relations of the British empire
with the United States. we were
guided in our dehberatlons ny Ihfee
main considerations.
T. I'm Japan we have an old and proved
ally. The agreement. now OF twenty
years standing between US. has been OF
very great benefit, not only 10 ocr
selves and her, but to the peace OF
the far east. In China we have very
numerous people Of great potentiaii-
ties. who esteem our friendship highly.
and whose interests we desire 10 as
sist and advance.
This statement of the prime minister
; elected cheers from the mousse.
In the United States we see To-Day
, az we have always seen, the people
, closest to our own aims and ideais'
the prime minister continued, ana
with whom it is for US not only
desire and an interest, but q deeply
rooted instinct to consult ana Coop
crate"
There was renewed cheering from
the house at this point. Mr.. Lloyd
George went on:
These were the main considera, en I.ao
were unanimous The object Of our
discussions was to find a method OF
combining all these three factors in
a policy that would remove the
danger of a heavy naval expendi-
ture In the Pacific. with all the eviis
that such expenditure would entail.
and that would insure the develop
ment of all legitimate national In
terests in the far east.
we had first to ascertain our
exact position in regard to the Anglo
much doubt as to whether the noti-
fication to the league of nations last
July constituted denunciation OF the
agreement in the sense OF clause vi.
If it did it would be necessary to
decide on some interim measure re-
Earding the agreement pending
fuller discussion with the Pacinc
powers. and negotiations with this
object in view were. In point OK lact'
already in progress
President Harding's note regard
ornaments was received by the Amer.
lean embassy here yesterday and
forwarded to Ambassador Harvey,
who was in the country. The am
bassador went to Chequers Court and
This morning the subject is under
stood to have been discussed by the
British cabinet here. There was
great activity at the British foreign
office early in the day. Lord Curzon'
the secretary for the foreign affairs.
interviewed both Ambassador Harvey
and Baron Hayashi. the Japanese am
hassador, before leaving for the cabi-
NET meeting. Later the Chinese min
lister called at the foreign once.
President Harding's proposal of q
disarmament conference among the
principal allied and associated pow
ers was the one topic OF converse
tion in diplomatic quarters today
Expressions OF satlSlactlon were gen.
eral, and the belief was voiced that
the washington conference, II 1t were
agreed upon. would only be compar-
able in Importance to the Paris peace
conference.
Note Before Conference.
Some of the dominion premiers call
ed at No. 10 Downing street, the prime
minister's oficial residence. this
morning, and later the imperial con-
H.
dent Harding's message.
The preliminaries which led up to
President Harding's proposal are un-
derstood here to have involved q
long conversation between Ambas-
sador Harvey and Lord Curzon at
the foreign office last Thursday, at
which the whole question was dis
cussed. As a result Of this the am
bassador was able to inform the
Washington government, it appears,
that the time wac ripe for formal
declaration on the part Of the United
States.