Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-18
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PERIL WITHOUT
PACT PACIFIC
Arms Reduction Alone Cannot
Stop War Brewing In Far
East, Says Sims
FAILURE TO AGREE TO
MEAN FORCE IN END
Proud Saving Would Ultimately
Be Swallowed Up In Jiffy,
He Points Out
BY VIM. PHILIP SIMS
Written Expressly for the NEA.

WfLttEH AAptSS"'y A~A
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-Reduc-
lion of armament alone will not
stop the war now brewing in the Pa
cifc.
An agreement between the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and Japan
as to the size of their navies meets
the approval of everybody here, but
unless these three countries can
come to an understanding as we'll
with regard to the Far East, naval
holiday will prove in the end crimi-
nal waste of time and money.
Failure to agree on common pol
icy in the Orient can mean but one
thing, namely, that America, Britain
and Nippon are irrecOncilably at
odds there and that force will ulti-
matcly be rcsorted to.
Far-sighted statesmen here con-
slider it an absurd paradox to con-
ceive of the conference winding up
in agreement with regard to scrap
ping of navies, but in full discord
over the Pacific.
Halfway Danger
Should this absurdity happen. how
ever, it could only result later on in
a stupendous spending of public
treasure on hurry-up orders of war
materials supplied by profteering
contractors demanding panic prices
for their wares.
The nations proud savings, with
billions raised by war levies sticking
to them, would be swallowed up in a
jiffy.
While Secretary Of States Hughes
dramatic offer struck the popular
fancy, observers acquainted with the
powder-keg conditions in the Orient
are loathe to construe him as mean
ing that the arms question can be
disposed of independently of Far
Eastern problems.
They contend the unconditional
serapPing of battleships and a naval
holiday without first removing the
causes of war is but mirage and
offers no real guarantee of peace.
Real Problem
With Japan's ambitions in Asia re
naming what they are; with the
American policy of the open door in
emma still being fouted; with a new
scramble for portions of disrupted
emma impending and with the Japa-
nese, American and British policies
IN the Far East clashing in dozen
other ways, they feel the conference
has a tougher lob on its hands than
agreeing on naval tonnage, however
important that may be and is.
Then there is the Anglo-Japanese
aHlance-as much in force today as
ever, and will continue until de-
hounced by either Britain or Japan.
rs 1t stands now, it menaces only
the United States, whatever British
OF Japanese statesmen may say to
the contrary.
II the Orient is left unsettled. ia
pans position in that part of the
"o,lo VIII be strengthened in direct
,''o TO the measure to which the ma
"ohs dlsarm. Total disarmament
would be tantamount to making ia
pan a present of Asia, for a handful
VI ner troops, already on the spot,
'ouia dominate the Asiatic continent
ana all Britain and America combin-
"a couldn't prevent it--without
navy.
Advantage to Japan
g.. Thuer Secretary Hughes plan, par
ga a1' " u'Sarmamcnt coupled with the
A-J alliance. would give Janan
T'or' than 2 to advantage in Far
'ostcfn waters, while even on naper
me chances would be s to S.
secretary Hughes has done a his
'n.'c thlng, students of Far Eastern
%"a'rs observe. They express the
aope ne will tackle Pacific problems
III a similar way.
NOT a mere vacation for a fnw
months or few years. this to he
tonoWed by break-necIS, spend-
,i, unit effort to make up for lost time
". %"i,e superior enemy pounds away
-, american ports, but really sound
i neaee IS what the United States de-
that is: -o''Ua''oh lof
d Cancellation of the "A-J" pact.
- q a. An understanding with regard
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