The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-27

the meeting of the conference on limi-
| tatlon of ornaments. The President
apparently wants the lawmakers to
! stay I'm session.
There are in congress today some
men who would like to keep things
running while the conference is at the
beginning of its work. There are ONLY
few Of these men, but some of them
are influential and some of them may
be expected to plead with their fellow
members that for safety reasons in
their home districts they should OPP
pose any adjournment. safety In
their home districts" means that some
members of the house have large
bodies of constituents who would like
to storm the national legislature in
behalf of some land or other over the
seas at time when the conference Is
trying to get settled down to work.
The leaders know that the country
wants the arms meeting to be success
full and they fear that If bodies of men
come here to march up Capitol Hill
with a demand for this or a demand
for that the effect will be irritating
to some of the conferees who are act
ing I'm behalf of foreign governments.
OF course congress, under the Con-
stitution must meet early in Decem-
Der in its first regular session, but by
that time the members feel the confer
ence will be well under way and that
the conferees will have been giveE
time TO know that the bulk of the
American people is with them If they
have shown disposition to strive
sincerely to reach the desired end.
Italy and the Navy Question.
1t has been supposed heretofore that
navieS Of the world would concern IT.
self almost wholly with the attitude
of Great Britain, Japan and the Uni
ted States. 1t may be that Italy Will
have something rather strong to say,
or, at any rate to intimate quietly, con-
corning action on the limitation Of
nayies.
France never has shown any anxiety
concerning the navy situation. France
believes today that Great Britain and
the United States have a friendship
for her which will protect her coasts,
and she feels that she has enough
ships of her own to do police duty in
her various contiguous possessions.
France is concerned almost wholly In
armament limitations matters within
her army.
Italy seemingly wants to keep a
navy as big as that of France. There
Is no particular friction between the
two countries, but each has north Afri-
can possessions and, moreover, Italy
is somewhat concerned about possible
future activities of CZechoslovakia.
She feels, apparently, that France is
not entirely in accord with her policy
as it concerns one or two of the coun-
tries which recently have come into
existence as independents.
CIemenceau Too Cynical.
Georges Clemenceau within a few
days, has turned in an alarm, Per-
haps the responding fire department
will find that no conflagration is threat .
ened, but, nevertheless, Washington
does not like to see Glenn
enceau in the .act of putting a torch
to the arms conference house.
Clemenceau's words were not alto
gether direct. He mlnimized the plan
for a conference and he maXimized
his belief in the good faith of the
United States. He lived here for a
good while and he liked US, and there
Is nothing to show that he does not
still like us, but, nevertheless, there
are some men in Washington who
wish that this great leader of a GER
tain kind of political thought in
France would lend his tongue and his
pen to help the cause of the confer
ence, instead of lending them to some
thing which reads and sounds like
cynicsm.
1t cannot be assumed that the Jap
anese are in a better mood toward the
disarmament conference as a result Of
recent dispatches which have come
from the Orient and which have been
given wide publicity through the press.
The japanese have gone ahead at navy
building and 1t is said that they are
huge defensive works at
one of their few island possessions
which never before has been defended.
The real japanese problem, so far as
entering into any kind Of plan for
the limitation of ornaments is con-
cerned, and especially entering into
a plan for settling the Far East ques-
lions. is the problem of its people.
The people Of the islands are the real
power, Notwithstanding the fact that
they are not fully represented, so far
as their real influence goes in the ma
tional councils. The people of Japan
seemingly have one thing in mind and
that is the dissemination of other peo-
pie to treat them as equal because of
the color Of their skins.