New-York tribune., 1921-11-02
Farley on Arms
Can't Fail, Says
British Sea Lord
World Isn't Mad or Bent
on Suicide, Asserts Lord
sLee, Admiralty Head and
English Naval Spokesman
DIR. Koo Pledges Aid
Italians Arriving ON Olym-
pic Hopeful of Wash
ington Meetings. Success

The Right Hon. Lord Lee, of Fare
ham, G. e., X. C. B., First Lord Of
the Admiralty heading the first collec-
tive group of British delegates to the
Arms Limitation Conference, arrived
here yesterday from Southampton on
the White Star liner Olympic, accom-
panied by Lady Lee. After stopping
with his party for few hours in this
city he departed for Washington
He is the first delegate of high rank
to express an opinion of length on the
Forthcoming meeting in Washington.
On the run across the Atlantic he pre-
pared statement which he made pub
lie, preferring this TO verbal dis
cussion.
In his statement the First Sea Lord
said that when he was here in 1913 he
knew that Germany was up to some
mischief and that her war lords were
merely awaiting tactical opportunity
to strike and launch their bid for
world domination on a generally I'M
suspecting civilization.
Learned Their Lesson
He said he recalled wildly the ridi
cuIe with which American friends
greeted his fears and warnings, but
they, too, he recalled, had learned the
bitter lesson that even the Western
Hemisphere was not safe from the
fangs and poison of Prussian militar-
ism.
"Nor were the lessons OF the war;"
he said, confined TO those we derived
from Germany. The world has learned
wider lesson still, that militarism.
wherever situated and however in
trenched, is q menace to civilization
and must be given notice to quit.
"That is what brings US to Washing
ton, and if, as | trust, we all so there in
a spirit not merely of hope and sim
cerity, but in fixed determination to
convert the Presidents lofty aspiration
into practical working agreement, the
war will not have been fought in vain.
$50 far as / am concerned-and
speak not only as the responsible head
of the British Admiralty, but as one of
the official delegatesl come in spirit
OF quiet confidence that the results of
this conference will be such as amply
to justify President Harding's far
seeing initiative, and personally l am
not prepared even to contemplate the
possibilities of failure. To do so would
be to assume that the world was af-
flcted with an incurable insanity and
could not be restrained from suicide"
Britain Recognizes Need
Lord Lee said that the greatest needs
of mankind to-day and for the future
are peace and that relief from the bur-
dens of war which peace ought to
bring. No one, he said, recognized
this more clearly and fully than did the
British government. AS proof of Brit
aims sincerity, he called attention to
Britain's bold and SO far lonely lead
in reductio of naval armament This
was shown also. he said, in Britain's
present policy Of conciliation with Ire
land.
The Olympic brought over a group
of Italian delegates, led by Senator
Carlo Schanzer, head of the Italian
Treasury. With him were Senator Wit
tcr.o Rolandi Ricci, Italian Ambassador
to WASHINGTON ,nd Senator Luigi Al
bertlni. tflnpo MAZDA, another senior
delegate, will arrive, they said, on the
Aquitania, with Premier Lloyd George.
Senator Schanzer, president of the
Italian delegation, said:
MANY questions were settled in The
war, but other serious matters remain
to be settled The Washington con-
ference will help toward re-establish-
ment Of such information relations
as will be real guarantees of peace
among nations.
at is necessary to substitute for tho
violent and unexpected solutions often
caused by misunderstanding and lack
OF worthy discussion the system of
friendly and loyal understanding