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New-York tribune., 1921-11-06

500, 100000 British subjects in Asia, who
do not see international affairs from
the viewpoint of Sir Robert Borden
or Senator Pearce or Lloyd George.
Next to the decision of the British
Premier to shelve for the moment the
Irish problem and unemployment and
the countless other troublesome ques-
tions there is no more significant fea-
ture about the selection of the British
Empire delegation than the choice of
an Indian representative. There is
nothing significant about the selection
of Mr.. Sastri. His choice on personal
grounds is a wise one, for he a loyal
practical, brilliant Indian. The real
significance lies in the decision to have
an Indian on the delegation.
With no intimate knowledge of India
or the Far East one can ask questions
to which common sense will dictate
answers. Will the 3oO,000,O0O Indians
feel more sympathetic to Japan or
Australia or to America? Will the
India which has resisted the efforts of
British culture or trade or whatever
one calls British policy, sympathize
with American or Japanese policy?
Mr.. Sastri is q moderate Indian. He
does not share the views Of Mr.. Gandhi.
1t will be interesting to sec how he
acts in the deliberations at Washing
ton. If Mr.. Sastri is even a mild op-
ponent of American policy, then one
can check off India as violent op-
ponent.
There is no mistaking the fact that
LLOYD George end the government re-
gard the Washington conference as
an epoch-making event. 1t will be a
mistake to look at it in q narrow
minded way, 20 try to measure its re-
suits by figures, to class it as failure
or success by the number of ships
which it decides the various nations
shall build. Lloyd George may help to
make Americans feel that Britons are
fairly decent people and worth work
ing with. Americans may do some
thing for the British Premier. Out of
the conference may come an under
standing which will draw the English
speaking people close together. One
need not be Anglophile to see advan-
tages in stronger understanding
among the peoples of England, Canada,
Australia and America.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
Soft-Collar Diplomacy Appears

plains the reason for his popularity in
clothes. He comes to the Irish con-
! ference wearing a silk hat, collar of
the style which cartoonists twist
around the neck Of Uncle Sam, a
braided morning coat and a pair of
trousers which might have been de-
signed by Sackvile Street tailor who
navy. Churchill and Collins drank tea
together. That incident was more sig
nificant than the news in the first of
ficial communique. Churchill is a bit
of an adventurer. He sent the marines
to stop the German army. He organ
lied the pardanelles attack. He was
ousted out of the British Cabinet and
came back stronger than ever. There is
no more versatile person than this
Anglo-Anerican who paints pictures.
writes newspaper articles, rules the
Colonial Office, sits in Irish conferences
and hopes he will be Premier of Eng
land some day.
+ Arthur Griffith is secretary of the
Sim Fein Foreign Office and IS titular
head of the Downing Street delegation
He is a statistical shark, fuil-blooded
Irishman and, strange as it may seem,
a consistent pacifist. Like Collins,
Griffith wears q soft collar and soft
hat. Unlike Collins, Griffith has no
personal magnetism. He is the anti
thesis Of Earl Curzon in appearance,
sNanners and breeding, but neither
could possibly become great national
hero. Griffith is shrewd, analytical.
diffident and unafraid. No amount of
bullying would change him. Blarney
would not come from his lips but
neither would it fool him. Contrasts
are sharp and clear when one sees the
members of these two delegations
striding through the gates to the en-
trance to 10 Downing Street-gates at
which kneei men and women and chill
dren, who are not ashamed to offer
their prayers that the Almighty will
bless the negotiations.
Some of the understudies are per,
forming work as important as, if not
more so than, that which is being
done by the delegates themselves.
Among them are two most interesting
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
Britain Sends a Family Party

of Britain's most noble families, who
started his public career as private sec
retary to the Marquis of Salisbury
forty-three years ago, cups his hand
as he listens to a speech in the Houses
of Parliament, but he still plays
vigorous game of tennis and would
certainly qualify we'll up in the an
nual senior golf tournament at
Apawamis. There could be no finer
contrast than that between Lloyd
George and Balfour, the former thick
set and powerful, the latter tall and
bit stoop- -shouldered, the Premier most
careful of dress, the ex-Premier the
despair of his valet, who has served
him score of years; the Welshman
an ideal of the masses, the Scotsman
an ideal companion for the savants of
the British Association. Still it is
David" and arthur" when they are
together.
Balfour has not deserted his old
loyes-diplomacy, public service, phi
losophy. theology, chemistry, letters
but he has found a new one--the
League of Nations. Some have re-
garded him as a cynic and the
antithess of an idealst. In the course
of my duties in Europe I have met him
m'ny times in many places, and moth
ing could have been finer than his kind
ness, his franKness and simpiiclry.
Balfour has a real interest and faith
in the League of Nations. He is more
cautious than his cousin, Lord Robert
Cecil, but he shares all his faith in
the good which can be ACCOMPLISHED
through the league. AZ seventy-three
Balfour goes to Ameris- to help in
work which is not unlike that which
has occupied so much of his time in
Geneva in recent months. Balfour has
real affection for America and Ameri-
cans. He will enjoy his visit as much
as will Lloyd George.
The early life of Senator George
Foster Pearce, the Minister of Defense.
who will represent Australia, closely
parallels that Of Lloyd George. The
Australian delegate is seven years the
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06

junior of the British Premier. In his
early days he was regarded as an ex-
treme radical. Starting work as a car
penter and joiner, he became a
prominent union organizer and served
eventually as the president of the
Trade Union Congress. Like Premier
Hughes, his early days were filed with
work for the laboring class and he
arose to power in Australia through
energy and ability in furthering the
aims of the Labor party. All his life
Lloyd George has been a member of
the Liberal party, but no labor agita
tor has advocated more radical meas
ures than the present Premier. Once
in power both have become trife
more conservative, but they have lost
none of their appreciation of the feel
ing of the masses.
Senator Pearce will have no easy
task at Washington, because Australia
has very definite views regarding the
Far Eastern Problem, and those views
do not always coincide with those of
the British government. Frankly,
Australians are worried over the
future. An immense area, with a
pathetically thin population of whites
Australia is country which naturally
regards the conflict Of interests in the
Pacific with no small measure OF
alarm. 1t can be asserted without fear
of contradiction that Senator Pcarce
will play large part in the Washing
ton deliberations. His superior, Premier
Hughes. could have no stronger under
study than Senator Pea-ce and no one
better qualified to present and fight for
Australia's case.
These two representatives. appear
=::th Sir Robert Borden and Stinavas-
ira Sastri as members of the British
Empire delegation. but any Americans
who believe they will speak with the
same voice as Lloyd George and Bal
four make no allowance for the vast
ness of the empire and it's variety OF
interests. 1t is unnecessary to COM
ment here on Sir Robert Borden and
the policy of Canada. If English in
terests were identical with those OF
Canada Sir Roberts task would be
easier and Lloyd George could regard
the Washington trip as a fine holiday
They are not. Mr.. Sastri, who appears
as the Indian delegate, represents
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
6HRCW SHI2EHHk4

Washington, but as yet little appreci-
ated in the nation at large.
At the outset of the conference I
would have my readers perceive that
the United States is undertaking an
aggressive foreign policy. 1t is un-
dertaking to limit the purposes and
policies of a great and proud nation,
1t is undertaking to forbid China to
Japan, so far as Japan has looked upon
it as an exclusive field for economic
and political exploitation. Mr. Hughes's
policy is the assertion of the right to
enunciate and maintain a doctrine
which is destructive of japanese policy
as it has been applied for more than
a decade.
Japan Will Be Told to
Get Out of China Politically
To the Japanese we are saying, in
effect, bluntly, without equivocation,
Get out of China politically. Get out
Of Siberia politically. Recall your
troops alike from Russian and Chinese
soil. Recognize that you have in both
territories no other rights than those
which belong to all nations. And note
that your presence in both countries,
your pretensions on the mainland of
Asia, constitute not alone violation
of abstract right, but 8 menace to the
United States, SO interpreted by it,
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ish in unmistakable terms: "The evil
course which Japan has followed in
Asia is due in no small measure to the
fact that she has been your ally and
has exploited that partnership in Asia
to her own advantage and to our harm
The price Of American friendship is
the abrogation of that alliance"
But this, in reality, is still another
act of aggression from the Japanese
point of view, because the greater the
value she attached TO the British al
lance the deeper must be her resent
ment when we undertake to compel the
abrogation of that alliance. Does one
need to recall the results of German
efforts to destroy the Anglo-French
Entente, as they were disclosed in
French reactions to the Kaiser's ges-
lures at Tangier and at Agadir?
Fundamentally, Mr.. Hughes's case
rests upon the conviction of the i'm
manent justice of the American conten-
ton. Japanese efforts to dominate the
Far East are not only immoral, they
constitute deliberate invasion of the
of all the countries who would share
in the Chinese markets and have a
right to share therein. Not only has
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
Treasure Hidden Before
Christ Hunted i'm Italy

ROME, Oct .0--Tbe townspeople Of
Biscegiis hSvc forsa.an their work Ana
usual occups-:ous TO sees Tor Jrr.s -
ure which is supposed to have been hid
den outside the town on the srcient
Corato Road. No one knew of this hid-
den treasure until few days age, when
certain Signora Giustina Pascuili ar
rived from Egypt, whe-a -he had been
living with her father for many years
When he died, few weeks ago, he
handed to his daughter an ancient man
uscript sent him by Padre Giuseppe, an
Italian monk in America.
On reading this document, after her
fathers death, Signo-a Paseulli d.scov-
cred that it spoke of the hidden treas
ure near her native town. She i'm
mediately returned TO BiscegIie and,
showing the document to the Mayer.
asked for permission to excavats.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
HnhZE4Z EHT0

of the right solution in the Far East
shall be accepted as condition antece-
dent to disarmament. We are asking
Japan and the rest Of the world to
accept our principles, our point, three
this time instead Of fourteen, as the
sole basis of peace and the incidental
limitation Of armaments.
To my mind the danger is ali here,
and the danger is very real. A decade
age it was impossible to persuade the
mass of British people, or for that
matter the majority of the British
Cabinet, that Germany meant what she
said, that if the British purpose to pre-
serve the status quo in the world were
adhered to in the end war would re-
suit. To-day it is equally impossible
to obtain hearing for the view that
Japan, whatever minor concessions she
may be willing to make to avoid a war
which she does not seek and, after the
German experience must regard with
apprehension, will, nevertheless choose
battle rather than surrender if pressed
too far.
Much reliance is placed upon the ex-
istence of Liberal party in japan and
an apparent growing WEAKNESS with
the chauvinism of the military party.
But similar reliance was placed upon
a similar element in Germany, which
just as certainly existed. The trouble
was that in 1914 the men in control
of Germany were able to unity all
elements by presenting the situation
as an attack upon Germany, by picsur-
ing the war which was actually made
in Germany a in reaEty a war of de-
fense. And to-day, as every one in the
slightest degree fmiliar with Japan
knows, exactly the same propaganda is
being carried on in Japan, presenting
American policy as an assault upon
Japan.
And no one can ever forget that the
situation as between Japan and the
United States is terribly complicated
by the race issue, which inevita bly, Gre
ates suspicion and a resentment in
the breast Of every Japanese.
To the public, to the American pub
lie, the Washington conference is, as its
official title asserts, conference to
discuss the limitation os armament.
But to the official world and to the
Japanese it is conference to discuss
the limitation of japanese ambition in
the Far East. All limitation of arma-
ment is expressly declared to be con-
tingent upon the restriction of Jap
anese purposes. But the restriction of
Japanese purposes may entail war, is
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06

body Of American citizens as yet con-
ceives to be possible, thinkable.
1t would be a simple matter for the
United States and Japan, sitting to-
gether at table, or Japan and the United
States sitting at table with the other
great powers, to reach an adjustment
which would eliminate the danger of
war, the immediate danger, anyway, the
eventual danger probably, provided the
objective of the conference were to
avoid wa. I assume that it is axio-
matte that neither nation desires war.
But it is not so simple when one nation
sets out to establish principles regard
ed by the other as inimical, not alone
to its interests, but even to it's exist
ence.
Three years ago, on the eve of the
Paris conference, there were not few
astute observers who perceived that
there was very grave peril incident
TO the fact that the conference was con-
demned to pursue two objectives, the
making of peace with conquered nations
and the creation of world association
TO make war impossible for the future.
On the horns of this dilemma the con-
ference failed. 1t made a peace of vic
tory, as it was bound TO do, but, that
peace made, the hope of reconciliation
for the future had vanished.
World Asked to Accent U. S, View
AS Basis of Arms Limitation
Now, at Washington two objectives
are again sought. We are not ap-
preaching the Far Eastern question
with the idea of making the best posi-
Bile adjustment compatible with the
establishment of the principle of the
limitation of ornaments. On the con-
trary, we are demanding that our view
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06

China right to independence and in
tegrlty, but all other countries, the
United States in particular, have a
legitimate interest in the maintenance
of that independence. To Use a IA
vorite word of Mr.. Hughes himself,
we have Interests"
But Mr.. Wilson's case in Paris rested
upon a similar major and magnificent
assumption that what was right was
therefore possible, practicable. The
freedom of the seas was a right. Self
determination was a right. All the
fourteen points were eternal verities
The only difficulty was that the Brit
ish rejected one point, the French an
other, the Italians yet another and the
japanese a fourth. When it came to
the point of translating the points into
facts we all know what happened.
U. S Will Seek to Attain
Point by Force of Argument
Now it is possible that, France, Great
Britain and Italy supporting US. we
shall be able by sheer force of srgu-
ment and in an entirely amicable fash
ion to persuade the Japanese to resign
not only their pretensions but goodly
proportion of their realization of those
pretensions in the Far East. That is
the hope. SO far as Mr.. Hughes is
concerned, it is not too much to say
that it is the expectation. Success for
the conference rests upon this assump-
ton. All the eggs are in this basket
The trouble is that if Japan sizes her
rights otherwise, then the choice is
between the surrender of principle,
which ruined Mr.. Wilson at Paris, and
the vindication of principle, which
means a war desired by no one in this
country, war which no considerable
New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
Rv Arthur S. Draper
LONDON. October q

AVID LLOYD GEORGE will
B q lead British family party
4 ~ into the Pan-American Build
0 ing in Washington. In ap-
pesrance, manners, thought and action
no more varied group could have been
selected to present British policy at
the most momentous international
gathering since the Paris Peace Con-
ference. 1t is a delegation which is
we'll qualified to represent the varied
views of the largest empire since the
world began. It's members speak the
same tongue, out not always the same
language. 1t contains men who, though
not born in poverty, have struggled
against tremendous odds to reach their
present high station. No delegation
contains men with greater imagination,
greater knowledge of history, greater
skill in the arts of diplomacy, greater
power IN analyzing public opinion and
turning that knowledge to their advan-
tage.
Why is the British Prime Minister
making the long trip across the Allan
TIC at time when his government is
beset With domestic problems of the
nrst magnitude7 There are two rea-
sons. Mr.. lloyd George regards the
Washington conference as of profound
Importance to the future peace OF the
world. Aad, secondly. = visi. to the
United States strikes nis imagination
rs an adventure second 20 none OF the
-lHny ne has attempted in the thrilling
.ears os bis long political life The
Washington conference was called to
s.adg me question of the limitation of
;rma'aent. emphasis having been placed
ty P.esident Harding himself on the
1aes sna. Il was not disarmament con-
serenc- oecsnse the world was not pre-
pared FOR tnat radical step at this
stage.
nut TO the head Of tue British gov
ernment the conference o.crs larger
opportunities for great deeds. rimi.a-
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Special Correspondence OF The Tribune
rn>.no>r O.A.t- 90

LONDO.N, OCCODSI 20.
~O-CALLED shirtsleeve diplomacy
a. has been followed by soft-collar
\ diplomacy at 10 Downing Street.
~ mickey" Collins is now as great
personality as was Georges Clemen-
ceau couple of years ago. The Sim
Fein delegations, which now meets
around the famous cabinet table in the
shadow of the -dignihed and con-
servative Foreign Office of His Maj
esty's government, is sign of the
times. Some new faces are seen in
"The Mirrors of Downing Street
David Lloyd George has been called
a political opportunist"; he prefers
to be known as real democrat. Con-
sequently no surprise follows the an
nouncement that the British Premier
gave a warm handshake to the re-
doubtable mickey" when they came
face to face fer the first time under
the roof of the historic Downing Street
house Mickey" was sporting q soft
collar and a genial smile, and the Prime
Minister was wearing a morning coat,
crop of locks which had not been
trimmed since an Inverness barber was
imported to the wilds Of GairIoch, and
an expansive smile.
Even Mr.. Lloyd Georges political
enemies will admit that he is good
sportsman and has sense Of humor.
He azs -cs asre yte.s-d than tbs
Premier to sec Mickey in Downing
Street.-The Mickey" who had eng,-
neered all manner Of attacks on crown
forces, who had escaped a dozen times
from under the very noses of these
self-sama crown forces, who had taken
life and risked his own in many ad-
ventures. No one hates Mickey: I:
most admire his daring. And the Irish
love him. He is a character He has
wonderful personality, fine wit, a
large measure of magnetism. No mis-
take was made when he was selected
as one of the Sinn Fein delegates to
the conference which is expected to
iron cut the age-long differences be-
tween the English and the Irish
Winston Churchill is half English
and half American. Perhaps that ex-
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tIon of armament is a matter for ex-
perts; it is a secondary question. The
political field is the one in which he
thrives. 1t may be that he will vent
ure where President Wilson failed,
though none will say that the Ameri-
can Executive failed in his efforts to
catch the imagination of the European
masses. Wilson succeeded and then
stayed on to see his power rapidly dis
appearing. Wilson appealed to all
peoples. Lloyd George will be in Amer
lea but a brief time, and he goes as
an ambassador to America rather than
to the world at large. 1t may be fine
distinction, but it is, nevertheless, an
important one.
Lloyd George Resembles
Roosevelt in Many Ways
Nobody in Washington can teach the
"Welsh wizard" any tricks in the game
of politics. In many ways he resem-
bles Roosevelt, though the comparison
cannot be drawn too closely. Lloyd
Georges long white hair, his broad
shoulders, his winning smile appeal to
the eyes of his audience. His homely
comparisons, his dramatic though SIM
pie gestures, his quick sensing of the
spirit @. his audience, appeal to their
ears and heart. Lloyd George gets to
ais hearers hearts If not always TO
their minds His bitterest enemies ad-
nit his cleve-uess as an orator. In the
whole House Of Commons there is no
match for the Prime Minister when he
is taking part in a debate or answer
ing supplemental questions. At fifty
eight years, with seven abnormally
crowded ones just behind him, his mind
is marvelously clear, his strength un-
sapped, his Imagination is as strong
as ever.
Americans may see a change in the
Arthur j. Balfour they knew during
the war. He is now seventy three
years old, but if he has grown old in
personal appearance he has grown
younger mentally. This member of one