New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Angglo-,Japannese e
Alliance Finds
Senators Cold
Strong Opposition TO Its
Renewal Promises to
Create am Embarrassing
Situation for Harding
Aim to Force His Policy
Disposition Is Apparent to
Show England How u. S.
Sentiment Regards Plan
BY Carter Field

WASHINGTON, May r29.-President
Harding is expected to face an embar-
rassing situation with the Senate in
connection with the Anglo-Japanese al
lance, which is up for renewal in July
The proposal to renew the treaty will
be one of the chief topics of discussion
next month in London before the Brit
ish Imperial Conference.
The dispatch to The Tribune fron
London, printed this morning and an.
nouncing that the views of the pre-
miers of the British dominions would
| be placed before President Harding be-
! fore any decision was reached as to the
renewal of the treaty, was read here
| to-day with tremendous interest. II
| was freely predicted by some Senators
| that there would be a deluge Of oratory
| in the Senate on the subject which
would serve ample notice on the pre-.
miers of the British dominions as to
where some of the representatives OF
the American people stand on this
| question.
Incidentally, the Administration lead
er in the Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge
recently was emphatic in conversa-
+ion with a representative of The Chi
| nese government in declaring that Eng
land should consider the sentiments of
the people on this side of the water
before renewing that treaty.
|
Senators Already on Record
In the same conversation as told in
The Tribune the next day, Senators
Medill Mccormick. Hiram Johnson ana
| William E. Borah added their obiec,
tions, MIR. Mccormick saying that il
might be possible for the British tc
draft their treaty with Japan in such
shape as to be satisfactory to the
American government but it could
never be framed in such fashion as tc
| be satisfactory to the American people
There is no Disgusting the fact that
| the Anglo-Japanese alliance has never
| been popular in Washington. This is
so generally true that wonder was ex-
pressed tonight as to whether, wher
the attacks upon the alliance are made
in the Senate-which is accepted as
beyond question-any one would rise
and defend the attitude of Britain and
Japan in renewing the alliance.
One of the points made in dispatches
from London as to the necessity, from
| the British point of view. of renew
ing the alliance, has created consider.
needs the alliance for naval reasons
No one here processes to understand
that statement. On the contrary, those
familiar with the fleets of other ma
tions assert that the navy of Great
Britain is easily stronger than that OF
Japan, plus that of any other nation
with the exception of the United
ored from study of the building
programs of the naval bowers, this is
likely to continue to be true.
Talk Of ''Super-Hoods" Revived
In this connection there is much
talk about the four super Hoods
which Britain is reported to have laid
down in the last few months. If these
ships are anything like some of the
reports, they will make everything else
in the big ship line obsolete
But while the naval explanation in
the London dispatches as to why Brit
ain wants the treaty renewed is taken
with liberal grain of salt, there are
those who say there are plenty of OBJ
VlouS reasons. however, none of these
reasons will meet the objections OF
tralia and New Zealand as publicly ex.
pressed, unless the United States
should approve the renewal.
These premiers have said that thi.
treaty must not be renewed unless IT
is satisfactory to the United States
and the dispatch from London printed
| to-day asserts that the whole proposi-
ton will be submitted to President
Harding before any action is taken.
ington, ably represented, certainly &C
far as oratorical ability is concerned
in the Senate, which believes that
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