The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-12
GREAT POWERS OPPOSE ANY
 CUT IN ARMIES
(By International News Service)

(By International News Service)
 PARIS, Aug. 12. - A serious at. tempt will be made at the Septem- Der meeting of the League of Ma tions to get European powers to re- duce their armies to a size some what in proportion to that now maintained by Germany.
 The effort will be supported by the Scandinavian states, probably Switz- erland and Holland and a number of South American countries.
 France, with the largest land military establishment in the world: Japan, Italy and most of the Bal. kan states will fight the measure wig. orously. It is almost certainly doomed to defeat.
 The original proposal was sub mitted to the league armament com. mittee by a committee from the British League of Nations Union The unions committee argued that since the menace of Prussian mill tarism has been removed by the treaty of Versailles that gave Ger many only a small army other Flu ropean nation's cannot argue with ! logic that they must maintain large land forces.
 1 A power with no design on it's neighbors, the committee reported needs an army only large enough for these purposes
 1 Preserving order at home. ! Preserving order in colonies and overseas dependencies and protect. ing these against uncivilized neigh, bors.
 Protecting itself against outside aggression.
 The Scandinavian delegates will come to Geneva prepared to assert that neither France, Japan nor any of the other nations still supporting large armies needs more troops, in relation to their size and geographi- cal position. than Germany to pre- serve order at home. They will concede that Britain and France with large colonial possessions, must be allowed sufficient forces to protect them But with respect to Article III, relating to protection against outside aggression" they will again point out that the elimination of Germany as a great war power, the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary and the disarmament of Bulgaria makes it unnecessary for any Euro pean state to maintain large forces solely as a measure ot defense.
 France is ready to accept the Scan dinavian proposition in principle. She Is willing to concede that every thing the British unions committee has proposed will suit her in per haps twenty or thirty years. But Sue VIII lHslSt OH tue necessity LII maintaining a large force until Germany has fulfilled the conditions of the Versailles treaty Nothing that may be said at Geneva will cause her to budge from that posi- ton.
 Japan will stand pat on the posi- ton she took last year-that so long as America remains outside the league and does not participate in disarmament discussions she cannot consent to any scheme for reducing her armies. Italy and the various Balkan states, which have been eye ing each other suspiciously ever since peace was signed. will give France and Japan all the support they need to kill any effective step toward disarmament at this years session of the league assembly.
 The proposal to make the size of the present German army q starting point on which schemes for world disarmament shall be based is, how ever, the first concrete suggestion offered to the league to find favor among any considerable number of members. One of the first sugges- tions-that armaments be reduced by reducing financial budgets for their maintenance-has been rejected as entirely impractical. It was pointed maintain an army of 500,000 men with the same expenditure required for an American army of 100000 If the same army expenditure was as- signed 10 each nation America would