The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1921-12-09
Conference Agreeing on Naval
Limitations but Apart on
China Questions.
BRANDS ELOQUENT SPEECH
frances Need Of Strong Army, Due
70 Fear Of German Aggression,
convInelngly Set Forth-Tax
Gill Becomes Law and
Congress AdIourns.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD

~ ONCORD and discord both were
~ apparent In the armament confer
ence last week. II appeared the
Hughes plan for naval holiday and
Limitation would soon be accepted
formally almost exactly as he pro-
posed Il. Great Britain Endorsed the
1858" ratio without reservation and
made II known that she desired only
TO suggest some modification OF the
submarine and replacement features
Of the plan ms whole. The Jap
anese, though still arguing that they
should have 20 per cent Of the naval
strength Of Great Britain and the
United States. evidently were pre-
pared to yield with the expectation
of some concessions In their favor
relative TO China. But the British. at
home. already are growing impatient.
Az soon as the Hughes plan was given
out the admiralty stopped work on
battleships under construction. Thurs
day Il announced that unless n de-
cision relative to naval Limitation
were reached by the conference with
I'm two weeks, work on the battleships
would be resumed before Christmas.
The admiralty may have been infu-
enced In this by the fact that our
congress adjourned without ordering
cessation OF work on our new ships.
As for the dlscord. which unfortu-
nateiy exists, II arises over two sub
jects-land armament limitation ana
China. Concerning the reduction OF
armies the III feeling Is between
France and England and Is being
scdulously fostered by certain British
correspondents now in Washington.
notably II. q. Wells. who brazenly adj
mits that he Is doing his "own small
hest 20 exncerhate H." his avowed
reason being that ~ brisk quarrel
md some plain speaking may clear
the air for n better understanding"
n REMIER BRAND. In wonder
full address. told the conference
and the world just why France dare
not now reduce her land force too far.
without hesitation he set forth frank
" his country's fears OF Germany,
first, and OF Russia. more remotely.
With facts and figures he made plain
the possibility that Germany might
again and almost within n day he
come a powerful and dangerous mill
tary nation. and that n considerable
portion Of the German people look for
ward 10 this he showed by quotations
from Ludendorff, who still has large
following. BRAND did not fail 20 give
generous praise TO Wirth's government
and admitted there were many people
In Germany, especially among the
working classes who want to work
and want no more war. The Ger
mahy they represent. he said. France
would do all In her power 10 help.
But. he said. until there was a
.moral cisarmlng" as well as a phys
icai In Germany. and unless France
was ASSURED ~ the continued support
Of the Uaited States and Great Britt
ain. Frnree could not lay herself open
60 attack by Germany. "we have 10
know" he said. "that France Is not
morally isolated. that she still has
with he~ the men 81 good will and
the heart, % all people who have
fought with her on the same battle
feld.-
A. for me charge that BRAND and
the FrcncA who follow him have a
hidden design to install In Europe
n sort ~ middle supremacy. this the
prcmicr ssid. is the most painful
hcari-rcndiac and cruel thing
F'reuChmsn can hear
n IS impossible. much as one would |
like % do 50. 10 quote more q NJ |
BRANDS eloquent speech. Sufiice u
10 SAY that 60 an unprecedented mind