, 1921-10-31
CONFERENCE IS BIGGEST
EVENT SINCE END Of THE WAR

~ the within OF the submarine. Twice
In n century. the fleet has saved the
Brton- He hates to part with it-and
viii not lightly agree to stop building
Then LOOK At Japan. Millions and
millions Of people squeezed together
on a few islands struggling for an
outlet They look toward China with
its wealthy Who shah
.ttand in the way OF Their develop
rneut7 But tho BIC powers-the Unit
ed States. Great Britain. Italy. France
and the rest-refusc to allow China TO
be despoiied. The overseas trade Of
each country can not be J~eopardized
By allowing Japan a, monopoly in tho
Far East.
The man on the street in Great
Britain. France. and Japan makes
public opinion. Collectively his pow
or talks. Wonld the man on the
street in the United States 60 TO war
with Japan 10 save Gilman President
Roosevelt once told tho German am.
iassador he didn't think so. The Far
Far East is too far away. But why
rhould America carry the burden
alone? All Far Eastern problems here
tofore have been settled by n coaii,
ton OF powcrs-nothing 50 formal as
an alliance but an effective combina-
ton OF countries having vital inter
ests TO protect.
Tho object OF tho coming confer.
enc therefore is to draw up rules and
regulations for tho behavior Of all ma.
lions in the Far East-an effort to
festabl sh equality OF commercial op
portunity. lniecd, It goes decpei
than that Sources OF friction mus
be removed. otherwise thcren be
war in the Far East in the next d.
hcade. And America has had one les
sen I'm how she can be drawn inta -
maelstrom from which Mt first she
seemed TO be thousands OF miles dis
tnnt.
But aside from Far Eastern ques
tons, comes a larger matter-bring
ing the nations OF Europe and Anne
lea into some k nd OF an understand
ing aboat the future. Shall the repair
atoms question be allowed TO driS
with France keeping a big army &c
enforce her wish? America want
10 pay back the ten billion dollars lent
during the war. IL can't be paid un
III Germany begins pay England and
France. The United States has a ma
terial interest I'm seeing Germany
make good her pledge. Assuming the
good faith of Germany. she VIII not
be restored by n policy Of starvation
and stransulation. England told
Francc tina only to arouse the ire
OF the French. In this America stands
close TO the British view. You can't
make a man staggering under n oad
carry it better by whipping him too.
The United States wants to help.
Woodrow Wilson proposed n form.
ula-the league of nations. II was re-
jected by the American sennte as be-
ing too intricate. Warren Harding
has proposed another formula-inter-
national cooperation. He doesn't think
a rigid institution like the league OF
nations is essential though he believes
the present league is going to he Of
lsimense help in keeping the Euro.
pcan nations together. lie hopes it
Will live for that purpose and succeed
even though he is unwilling at pres
eat to favor American membership.
But just the same International co
op rsation, not isolation, is the funda
mental in President Harding's policy.
And at the Washington conference
America viii come back into the fam
lily OF allied and associated powers and
take up anew the thread of European
questions which do affect Americas
economic welfare. Reparntions. bal