The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-13
OLD BALANCE SOUGHT
IN FARLEY. SHAW SAYS
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indulgence, amiable as IL may be,
does not justify the faintest pre-
sumption that the British and
American fleets may not be trying
to sink one another with Henry Ar
thur and the rest frantically cheer.
ing their own sides within three
weeks or less.
1t In not emotion In the raw, but
emotion evolved and fixed as an in
teliectual conviction that will save
the world from war.
In short, We shall learn nothing
about this conference from the con-
ference itself. Its business Is now
avOwedly not disarmament, but the
old task Of arranging . balance Of
power that shall be satisfactory TO
all parties, and a. no arrangement
win be satisfactory to any Of the par
ties except m arrangement that u
shall b stronger than all the rest,
the conference win find itself pur-
suing . win-o'-thewisp.
Secret Bargains.
The delegates will begin sounding
one another for alliances. They
will make secret bargains and treat
les in addition to the ones they al
ready have in their pockets and
pigeonholes. They will be swayed
hither and thither, one way by fears
Of one another, and the other by
their common appetite for the ex-
ploitation OF China and by their hoo
tility to Russian shevism that
threatens to supersede capitalism.
japan will bid against America for
British support. America, feeling
hemmed In between Britain and ia
pan, as Germany felt hemmed I'm be.
tween Russia and France, and per
hnps remembering Sir HalfOrd Mac.
kinder's demonstration. that she Is
after all only q rather perilOusly sit
uated island between two jaws Of q
mighty continent, with the japanese
tooth In one jaw and the British
n tooth In the other, will be eN-
tremely uneasy end will find herself
wishing that there was a strong
China but not too strong) and
strong Germany lstrong rs you like)
to balance matters n bit.
The more uneasy she feels the
more determined she will be to equip
herself puissantly for battle In case
Of need.
Shaking OF Fists.
But as war, in view Of what Ger.
many got by trying II, is 80 doubt.
full and desperate a resource, and
none OF the Powers can afford IT
just at present anyhow, there will
be shaking Of mailed fists or clank-
ing of shining armor.
America will not dwell on the
chances Of another Jutland battle,
another submarine campaign, o.
another set of experiments in helium
inflated dirigibles and poison gas
bombs. She will reflect more AMI
more attentively on the contrast OF
her own cohesivence and the liability
of the British Empire to fly to pieces
like Prince Rupert's drop at the
first breach made in It.
California wants a white America.
But so does Australia want a white
Australian continent and Canada \
white North American continent.
Lord Northcliffe, having made the
discovery so surprising to all British
islanders, that Australia Ia much
larger than the Isle Of Wight and is.
in effect, a whole quarter Of The
globe. has warned Australians that
the British flag, plus birth control,
are not enough and that II the Aus
tralians do not populate Australia
with white people II will be populated
with yellow people.
May Buy OFF japan.
The point Ii not likely to be lost
on japan, yet England cannot, with
decency, repudiate the AnSio.Jap-
anese alliance after what she has re-
Gently gained by Il. She will have
to ask Japan whether the Milxado
will have the cOndescension to he
bought off for n sufficient slice NJ
Asia.
Here are the materials for some
very animated conversations on the
back stairs. None of them IL tit
for immediate publication. The pco-
pies will find out all about II In
time, when they cannot help them
selves, just as we in England found
out after 1914, what had been ar
ranged In 1906.
But there are already 80 many
cards on the table that a good deal
may be said before the bargaining
begins. l propose to say Il In two
further articles. In the first of which
I shall deal with disarmament and
In the last with the chances of gs.-
ting rid Of the balance Of power In