The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-23
ENGLAND WANTS
MORE DELEGATES
May Send Six to Conference
for Limitation of
Armament
DOMINIONS SHOULD
BE REPRESENTED
This VIII Necessitate Increase In. Other
Delegations - Diplomatic Relations
Between United States and Great
Britain Involved.

Britain Involved.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer)
| Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON, Sept % - News
from England indicates that Great Brit
ain will have six members on her dele
cation to the armament conference. i'll
this is her wish, it viii be granted and
every other delegation viii be increased
from four to six members.
| OF course America hasn't anything to
say about the personnel of other delega-
tons and has not attempted to limit the
size beyond the general statement that
the delegations ought to be small so as
to permit of effective transaction of bus
mess But it is a fact that Americana
public opinion as guaged by those in au-
thority here indicates desire to have
the dominions of the British empire rep
resented somehow in the British delega-
ton.
In the interests of better relations be-
tween the various English speaking coun-l
tries, ii had been hoped that the Brit
ish cabinet would invite the premiers of
Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and
Australia or their representatives to sit.
IL
of the British delegation.
DOminiOns Interested
Many of the problems which will be
discussed at the conference on Far East
ern questions are vitality related to Can
ada, New Zealand and Australia. The
United States would like to be appraised
directly of the views of those countries
and to make sure that the representatives
OF those nations are Informed first sha nd
in Washington of the details of policy
OF the Washington government Indeed.
FAR more than appears on the surface
the conference is destined to have an i'm
portant bearing on the relations between.
the United States and the British en-
pre-. 1t Is significantly recalled here that
the whole parley is the direct sequel of
the imperial dominion conference when
the opposition to the renewal of the An
IglO-JapaneSe alliance developed on the
part of the British dominions coincidcnt-
ally with the expressions of the American
press against the continuation of that
pact
The first cable dispatches from London
would seem to indicate that not a single
representative of the British dominions
will be on the British delegations. This
has Cccasioned much disappointment
here At first it was supposed that this
may be due TO a hesitancy on the part of
Il Britain to have her dominion govern
II ments discuss foreign affairs with other
powers but the Prousnent part taken by
General SHUTS Of, South Africa i'm the
Paris conference as well as the success of
the British government in securing repre-
SentatIOn IN the assembly of the league
OF nations for its domnioas would seem
TO offset that impression. For years there
has been agitation on the part Of the
II Canadian people for a commissioner in.
Washington. In principle this plan has
met with approval here but while the
British government might not object to
a Canadian commissioner in Washington
would they approve OF an American COM
missioner at Ottawa. Although there is
no parallel between the inheritance of
II Egypt over which England maintains a
lprotectorate on the one hand and Can
/ ada on the other, II is a fact that an
II American commissioner possessing vir-
tually diplomatic powers has been resi-
dent at Cairo for years. The whole prob
1 lem is one OF the delicate points between
Il the United States and Great Britain
| which il had been expected here would be
settled before the big conference began.
Possible Appointments
| Meanwhile speculation is developing as
| to who the additional two members of the
United States delegation will be if the
membership of all delegations is increased
! from four to six 1t is assumed TINT an
other Democrat will be chosen. John w
| Davis former American ambassador to
| Great Britain, is especially familiar with
| the problems to come before the confer
ence and is not known as a partisan Dem
ocrat. His name is being mentioned re-
neatedly as a probable choice. Robert
| Lansing, former secretary of state. is an
other Democrat, who is eligible although
| ii is said lie has already been engaged by |
| the Chinese government as an advisor. |
As for the Republican member, John Bias |
set Moore, recently selected justice of the !
new world court, is spoken of for a place |
on the commission while gossip at the |
capitol is that Senator Knox, of Pennsyl-l
vania, a former secretary of state might |
be added to the American delegation.