Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-11-26

1t was lnQIcate0 1urfher that as q
first step toward world wide recog-
milton for the conference plan, the
results of the negotiations here might
be submitted for approval not only to
the participating nations but to those
not represented here, including Ger
many and Russia.
So far as the suggestions of Mr..
Harding have been made known, they.
contemplate meeting of nations about
the council table once year to thresh
out troublesome questions and devise
means for the preservation of peace.
1t is said to be the hope of the presi-
dent that in the end all the smaller
governments will join with the great
powers in whatever discussions may
concern them or the world situation
generally.
No Special Plan
There IS no indication that any
covenant or any constitution would be
proposed as the basis Of the plan. or
.tAoka shQrath sietsfnagfoifSi- ssla-
|thinefy would be suggested to convey
1t into effect. The meetings might be
confined to special subjects Or merely
to survey international relations and
look for danger points in general
effort at good understanding.
Whether an international court of
justice might be one of the results is
a subject which the president is said
to consider too nebulous for present
discussion, although he is known to
regard some such tribunal as logical
part of the plan he has advocated for
an association of nations"
His opinions on that subject have
been expressed in several public ad-
dresses during the past year but he
never has made detailed public state
ment of the exact methods by which
court could be established.
In fact. in his preliminary considera-
ton OF the best means toward inter-
national cooperation. Mr.. Harding is
said by his friends to have tried 70
keep his proposals as free from detail
as possible, with the deliberate pur-
pose Of reducing to minimum the
probable causes of complication. His
intention is declared to have been to
apply to the world situation in the
broadest sense the principle of "a
meeting of minds as he employed it
IN his pre-inauguration days at Marion.
Pass Details
So far he is willing to go toward
with details. it is declared
that he is ready to let the results of
the present conference and the plans
for future meetings rest merely on
a ''gentieman's agreement" rather than
a formal treaty.
Some members of the American dele
cation in the conference are said to
favor the treaty method. and the point
is yet to be decided; but it was asserted
in authoritative quarters Friday night
that so far as MIR. Harding was con-
cerned he would as soon have ma
tion's word as its bond.
This nnSifiOn tho DrnSsIarf - So,l
to base upon faith that the Wash
ington conference will help to put a
new face upon International relation
ships and arouse a new sense of ma
tional honor. Agreements such as the
conference is expected to reach, are
regarded by the chief executive as
touching closely national considerations
of uprlghteousness and good will and
resting, therefore, upon the good faith
of the nations concerned
The hope of the president Of con-
tinuation of conferences like the pres
ent one became known at moment
when the arms delegates reached
stage of their deliberations strongly
tiations viii be necessary. to copsum-
ate the task begun here.
Naval Plan Blocked
II diSO Is peCoiuUlS dppHEeQL (naL tue
conference will not be able
to make final decisions on some sub
jects relating to ornaments. since sub
jects like the rules of warfare neces-
sarily must be given world wide con-
before there can be revi-
sion to which the powers will he will
ing to bind themselves. A continuing
on aircraft is regarded as
another probable outcome of the con-
ference, and it may be that after limit
has been set on the submarine power
of the nations there may be more
permanent body created to consider
the suggestion that under water war
fare be abolished altogether.
1t was not indicated whether the
president had suggested even informal
ly to the foreign delegates the ad-
of inviting Germany and
other unrepresented nations to partici-
pate in the agreements reached here.
and none of the foreign spokesman
would discuss the possibility.