The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-11-23
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'FN1 l!1l y 5I BACK
I u [lA IN PRINCIPLE
Vi;'ory For U. s. Diplomacy:
Many Snags to Be
Uprouted

Washington, Nov. 15.--The sweep
ing american proposal for reduc
ton of naval armament became the
accented fundamental policy of the
armament conferences today by the
uranimous assent of the five great
powers.
Seconding the bold lead of the
United States. the accredited spokes
men of Great Britain, Japan, Italy
ard France rose in their places at
today's plenary session of the con-
ference, and one after another de-
clared the readiness of their gov
ernments to accept the American
proposal in spirit and in principle,
but with the reservation of a right
to suggest notifications of detail.
Then the problem of these details
which everyone realizes may yet oc-
cupy the prolonged attention of the
conference and involve the success
or failure of the whole plan, was re-
ferred for preliminary examination
to a committee of five technical
naval advisers, one from each of
the big five powers.
britain For Fewer Subs
Within this committee first OF all,
Great Britain will ask for a further
reduction of the limit proposed on
submarine tonnage. Japan will en-
deavor to prove her right to a great
err ratio of naval strength than has
been suggested for her, and France
and Italy will request that their
naval questions be considered along
with those of the three stronger
naval powers embraced in the
American plan.
Thus the diplomacy of the Amer
lean delegation has won its first vie
tory in the conference, but still finds
,itself confronted with questions of
admitted Importance and delicacy
whose solution is requisite to attain
ment of the purposes for which the
nations were called into consulta-
tiOn. !
While the technical advisers
wrtstle with the ornaments prob
lem and the ! delegates themselves
,caa'n~;R Informal conversations on
the American plan, the other big
subject of the conference, the Far
Eastern situation, will be given its
first formal consideration at an exc
cutive meeting tomorrow of the
delegations of all the nine interested
nations. Tonight every one of the
delegations was In waiting atti-
tudo toward the Far Eastern ques-
tons, and il any nation had a com
parative plan of settlement to pres
ent at the outset it was carefully
concealed.
Britain Accepts First
The lead in accepting the rrinci-
pla OF the American naval proposal
was taken in toda0P meeting OF the
corierer bl at Britain. whose
histo~.g naval supremacy would
~ ltuan, give way to an equality
Of strength with the United States,
if the plan became an actually
Ar,hur J. Balfour. head of the Brit
ish delegation, announced the Brit
ish acceptance in a speech that
stirred the emotions of delegates
and spectators and sarted a discus
son in which diplomatic cards were
laid on the table in a manner I'M
in international confer I
onces.
E'a:e he hall still echoed with
po.'.aag .or the speech of the Brit q
s,a,esnan the chief delegate OF I
Japan Admiral Baron Tomosabura
Kato was on his feet to pledge the
readiness of the Island Empire of s
the East to proceed with sweep
ng reductions" in her feet. sena-
.or Carlo schanssr for Italy, and
Prem Ter Aristide BRAND for France 9
.dded in their turn pledge of CO.
operation in the programme hid
Town by the United States.