The Washington times., 1921-11-28
Today
Too Bad! Same Old Topic.
An Association" Now Sug.
gested.
Fiske, Shaw, D'Annunzio,
ct al.
All Nations Bow to Japan.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE

an association Of nations" Eu-
rope. anxious to borrow more
and pay less. welcomes the al
Ieged effort to beat the devil
around the stump and set aside
the peoples verdict at the last
national election.
That election. however, made
Mr.: Harding President, and he
will not forget it.
There cannot be any "associa-
|. tion Of nations" subterfuge with
out the Presidents consent. He
will neither betray the people
that voted for him in his "no
League of Nations" campaign
nor lay the foundation of an
overwhelming Republican defeat
at the next election. p.
MIR. Harding intends to invite
she nations, here or elsewhere.
TO talk over important matters
occasionally without any thought
of trapping this country in dis
guised league. He has had his
orders from the people on that
SuuJCSt, dIlu hHOWS II.
Lloyd George means to come,
sailing in about a week. That
will add a real man to the WASH
ington talk. His coming means
that he expects something of real
Importance: he does not cross the
ocean for the pleasure of adding
one wreath to Washington's tomb.
He's a practical Welshman. Per-
haps he wants to learn. at first
hand. how we really feel about
Japan, and about the British
Japanese alliance.
In one group yesterday articles
on disarmament and the confer
ence were published from Rear
Admiral Fiske. Shaw. Won Tir-
ritz, D'Annunzio. and Lovat
: Fraser. A line or two from each
will shed light.
Admiral Fiske makes it clear
that this nation 10 usually about
as well prepared as a chicken
coop when the weasels arrive.
Fiske was called from his bed at
four in the morning and told to
have American forces land and
seize the Vera Cruz custom house.
General Wood. then head Of the
army. knew nothing of the ex-
pedition, until he read the news
papers.
We need man like William
Pitt, says Admiral Fiske. to
know, in advance. what events
mean. Well wait some time,
however, for Pitt.
Shaw says disarman1eiiE will al
ways be bluff. Submarines and
warships may be disguised as
commercial vessels. ostentatiously
cutting down on battleslips. now
obsolete. may masquerade as dis
armament: ammunition factories
frnay be used as dive factories;
poison-gas plants will make peace
full chemicals part of the time
the world will not make peace
until it really WANTS to stop
fighting. That time has not
come. Another war is coming.
saws Shaw, and it will drag every
body in. It will not drag in this
country, however. If our. Govern
ment keeps the last election in
mind.
Won Tirpitz. whose career has
included extraordinary ability and
a most complete defeat. warns the
United States that a ten-year
naval holiday. adhered to in good
faith. would put this country hope
lessly behind the times. If sud
den preparation should become
necessary, you cannot do very
well what you have not done for
ten wears. Let the champion
football player of ten wears ago
try to get in the game today.
\ D'Annunzio says the conference
,rill do useful work, compelling
Europe to face her own faults. He
hoped that war, crushing the bodies
of men, would revive their spirit,
but "too soon we perceived that we
had fought to keep in motion the
old constructive machinery OF in
Justice and servitude." :,
D'Annunzio's country is filled
with hatred Of France, lately her
slly, and D'Annunzio says "already
Italv is alone among the allied
nations, victorious but poor"
Lovat Fraser, able Britisher,
writes, for Englishmen, not Ameri-
cans: Japan says she has power
to sweep the American flag off
the Eastern seas and establish
dominion over China" England
does not want Japan to boss China
and grow too big, but England has
"not a shilling to spare on another
war And Il Japan should start
a war, defying England's influence
and America, that war would
p shake the world"
While we talk peace and dis
armament, everybody expects an
other war, and wonders where it
will start. How plain it is that our
business is to be prepared, well
coming and trying new suggestions
for fighting Of all kinds, exercising
economy, without any sacrifice OF
strenUth knowing that what we