The New York herald., 1921-11-19
ENGLISH REVIEWS
EIIL0GIZE PARLEY
Spectator Says Japan viii
Ask Compensation for
Naval Holiday.

LONDON, Nov. is (Associated Press).
Almost without exception the London
weekly reviews, which often reflect au-
thoritative opinion, eulogize tae Wash
ington conference, ans especially the
Hughes's proposals for naval holiday
Referring TO Japans objections TO the
proposals. the Spectator thinks that this
will constitute the crux of the whole
conference, and says "If Japan agrees
to naval holiday, which. we must adj
NIT, will maintain her relative naval
inferiority to Great Britain and Amer
lea, she is certain to ask to be compen-
stated for giving up what she believes
to be good chance OF securing COM
mand of the seas
The Spectator says Japan, If she Is
frank, will say that her navy was not
built for self defence, but in order to
secure her rights in the Far East and on
the Asiatic mainland, which she consid-
ers as hers by virtue of her military
and naval prowess, her growing popula-
tion and expanding trade. The periodical
considers that Japan must be given rea-
sonablc satisfaction, 'but we must also
make clear to her that what we want TO
bring to the world is peace and not a
new type of sword" Incidentally the
really matters at the conference Is the
cementing of blood and brotherhood be-
tween Great Britain and America.
The SATURDAY. Rouieto thinks sober
reason is required to Judge tho Aneri-
can plan for limitation of armaments.
and says: Peculiar conditions Will be
created by the proposals. At the en1
Of ten years two British and six Amer
ican shirs will be obsolete. The Ameri-
can six may be replaced. brt the British
two may not until the British total
tonnage shall have fallen below 5oO.co0
The control of the sea would thus pass
to the United States"
Seriously the Revic,o asks. "is this
a time to play tricks with our navy and,
by abandoning four new battleships, to
throw thousands out cf work and also
to prevent the p2oper training of our
personnel. 1t IS with facts ard
not aspirations that we have to deaf.
The Nation says that Mr. Hughes
frankly adopted parliamentary methods
against babbiing platituGos md secrecy
v hich prevailed at Paris" and considers
that he won the public opinion of the
world at large. and especially In Eng
land IT believes that instead of
first reducing armaments the question
of Far Eastern policy should have been
settled.
The Nation declares that former Prcsi
dent Wilson was blaclimailed by the
Allies at Paris through his thinking that
nothing mattered but his League Of Ma
tlons, and declares that Mr.. Hughes will
have hard work to avoid the same
danger.
The NeU Statesman also emphasizes
The change from the diplomacy Of the
Paris peace conference--where. IL says,
Wilson was first asphyxiated and then
outwitted'--to the open diplomacy at
Washington. where Hughes put all his
cards on the table" The Statesman ex-
presses hope that the British reservation
regarding the slow and continuous re-
placement Of capital ships will not be
pressed. for obviously it strikes at the
root of the American scheme. We want
to get rid OF competition, not to restrict
it,"
After remarking that Mr.. Hughes's
proposals are repetition on larger
scale of the suggestion for a naval holi-
day which Winston Churchill made to
Germany a decade ago, the Outlook
says:
America after sulking in her tent for
two years has come forth again when
the tide Of fate seemed to be running
strong against humanity, and her first
effort has given renewed hope to
despairing world. America has the in
tcrnational mind, and only an interna
tional mind can save us.