Middletown transcript., 1921-12-03
ARMS PAR[AY
EFFECTS REFORM
Strong Contrast Between Wash.
ington Methods and Versailles
HARMONIOUS RELATIONS
Leaders OF Delegations Made To Real
ize That Conference Cannot
Be Used For Exploiting
Selfish Aims.
HARMONIOUS RELATIONS

WashingtOn.-The process for max
ing peace at Paris and trying to keer
peace at Washington differ in many
essential particulars. Conditions un
der which the Washington Conference
is conducted are decidedly more agree
able than those that existed at the
French capital.
In the first place, the program out
lined by the pending International Con
ference is simple, less intricate and
more easily understood by the mar
on the street" and "the man on the
farm than the Paris undertaking
which was only accomplished after the
most rapacious ambitions had beer
either gratified or suppressed
In the second place, the Washington
Conference has up to date been con
Quoted with minimum of both and
with more gratifying results. While
the forms used at Paris and in Wash,
ington are the same in general outline
the methods of the present Conference
are decidedly dissimilar. There is lit
tie if any secrecy or mystery about
the procedure employed to accomplish
the vast reforms to which the United
States Government invited the atten.
ton of world powers and proposed
schedule of principles designed to cor
rect them.
Hence it is that the average man
who keeps track Of the daily chronicle
of events knows that these important
fundamentals have already been estab.
lished:
l. The most important nations on
the globe have been brought into
closer and more harmonious relations
to view their responsibilities to the
people of their respective countries.
2. The prospects for developing or
ganized world leadership to undertake
the stabilizing of demoralized political
and economic conditions have been
greatly improved.
3. The attention of the leaders OF
all governments has been discreetly
focused on the necessity for genuine
cooperation between nations, founded
upon honor and integrity rather than
on the hard and fast rules of the
League Of Nations which the present
American government views as arbi
trary and Objectionable.
4. The nations participating in the
Washington Conference have been
brought to realize that 1t was not In
itiated for the purpose of exploiting
selfish ambitions or to settle personal
or political grievances and that the
United States will not be party to
any international enterprise where
they can be so exploited.
5. The curtailment of sea arma'
ments has been generally agreed to by
all of the delegations represented at
the Conference in response to the uni
versal demand Of the people through
out the world and the adoption of the
essential features Of the Hughes for
mula for limiting Naval ornaments
has been made certain.
s. The restriction of land arma.
ments, while yet matter of contro'
versy, will be settled with due consid.
Grafton for the unusual requirements
of France, but with the proper regard
for the objections of some of her Eu'
ropean neighbors which view the
maintenance of any military establish
ment on a war basis as inimical to the
future peace of the world.
7. The status of the submarine as a
legitimate device for defense promises
to provide one of the most interesting
features of the ornaments problems
because of the increasing revulsion OF
feeling against the employment of the
submarine and other wiper" agencies
of warfare.
8. The dominant influences in the con.
ferences are Enthusiastically opposed to
the perpetuation Of the Anglo-Japanese
Alliance and all other secret treaties
and understandings that make for ad'
vantage to favored nations and dis
elimination against other countries.
9. The difficult task Of rehabilitat'
ing China, assisting the Chinese peo-
pie to establish an orderly government
and protecting them from further
predatory aggressions Of outside ma
tions asserting special rights and
privileges have been entered upon with
the confident determination to provide
her with agencies for doing so.
10. The working out of the intricate
problems Of the Far East is expected
to result in the clear definition of the
status of all outside countries claim.
ing superior advantages on the Asiatic
mainland, make the "open door" a
reality and abolish spheres of inau.
ence."
None of these things have been
finally reduced to definite and wholly
acceptable form, but there is no ques.
ton in the minds of the leaders of the
Conference that the sympathetic con.
currence Of views existing among the
delegates regarding most of them will
result in greater reforms than have
ever been accomplished at an Interna.
tional Council.