New-York tribune., 1921-11-22
Germany Must 'sDisarns
Morally Before Peril
to Neighbor Disappears,
Premier Tells Council
Britain to Cling
To Japanese Pact
China Removed as Source
of Dispute; Disarming
ON Land improbable
By Carter Field

By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-Re-
sponsibility for Europe remaining
an armed camp, for the futility of
attempting land disarmament at
this time, was placed squarely on
Germany by Aristide BRAND, Pre-
mier of France, at to-day's session
of the armament conference. He
pointed to Frances steps toward
cutting her army in half, but saw
no possibility of further reductions
until Germany disalmed morally.
Arthur J. Balfour, for the Brit
ish delegation, and Charles E.
Hughes, for the United States, in
answering the French Premier as
sured him that the Allies, aware Of
Frances position, could not be deaf
to an appeal to help her in another
crisis.
Confidence that Brands frank
appeal to world opinion would have
results in Germany by rousing the
liberal element-to which the
French leader made an especial
plea-was voiced here tonight by
scores Of veteran diplomats who
listened to his oration.
China Removed as Menace
Another tremendously important
development of the day was the
virtual removal Of China from the
category of possible causes of war
between the United States and
Japan. By unanimous vote, the
other eight powers agreed to set
of resolutions drafted by Elihu
Root, which make a long start to-
ward solving the most difficult and
intricate Of all the Pacific and Far
Eastern questions"
AS has been pointed out several
times in The Tribune's Washington
dispatches, virtually all of the other
Pacific and Far Eastern questions
have been fairly well agreed upon.
There remained only China as dis
turbing element, and now it appears
that when the conference shall ad-
journ every problem it had to face
will have been satisfactorily settled,
saving only land armament limita-
ton, on which there was never at
any time any hope.
The nations bound themselves in
this Root resolution virtually to give
China chance to develop an effec-
tive and stable government, and to
permit all nations an equal oppor-
tunity for commerce and industry
throughout the country, with all
that this implies. II
Queer Results Forecast
On naval armament limitation
the British experts pointed out to
the Americans to-day that the
Hughes replacement program will
lead to some astonishing results.
In certain years, they pointed out,
the British navy will be immeasur-
ably superior to the American and
to the japanese, owing to the fact
that it will consist Of SO much larger
a proportion Of new ships. The
pendulum will swing back again a
few years later, giving the American
navy huge advantage, while at an
other point the japanese navy will
have a strength out of all proper
tion to the ratio Of 5-5-3.
This is one of the kind Of technical
details which will cause long discus.
sion among the experts. Otherwise,
it was agreed tonight, the confer
ence might adjourn by Thanksgiving
instead of Christmas.
Incidentally, the British made il
clear to-day that there is not tho
slightest thought of abrogating the
Anglo-Japanese alliance. They are
perfectly willing to supplement it by
having a tripartite agreement be-
tween Great Britain, Japan and tho
United States, but even that would
not mean "abrogation" of the treaty
lin fact, that word is spoken by the