Arizona republican., 1921-08-23
DISARMAMENT IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS CHINA IS GIVEN
 SQUARE DEAL BY POWERS
WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMS FINDS WAR ONLY WAITS TREATMENT CHINESE DELEGATES RECEIVE AT HARDING DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
. 'ey VIM. PHILIP sIMMs

Written Expressly for the N. E. A.
 SHANGHAI, Aug. 22-The success Or failure of President Harding's disarmament conference will bA eauged by the treatment accorded China no more and no less.
 What is everywhere in the Orient considered as potentially the most momentious congress in history will come to naught if the menace of Asia is not removed and China given square deal.
 if China receives the treatment in Washington that it has been cus- tomary for the great powers to mete out to her, armament merchants and battleship builders may as well pro- ceed at once to enlarge their plants. For war is waiting just around the corner.
 A Rocky Road
 If China is to get square deal from the Powers, 1t is going to take a considerable wrench of diplomatic usage.
 Mossback diplomatists will have to be cl1ucked into the can with the other obsolete things, else placed in . minority at the conference; red tape will have to be sundered and precedent shattered.
 Only by a mirac71can the Chinese delegation speak for united China or Government that really governs.
 If the Powers are going to be stickIers about such things the de- Alterations threaten 10 become a farce and the hope of reduced armaments will go up in a column of hot air.
 To the contrary. if the Powers set about helping China as wholeheart- o11y As hitherto they have cold bloodedly trodden upon her. using good will as lavishly as they have aiways employed greed, something may be accomplished.
 Will Mean War Both roads the road to success and the road to fdilure-lie through China
 ChinA's antagonists at the Wash ington conference will be the enc mics of disarmament and of peace. whatever their public utterances. for the prolongation of the present state of affairs in this country can lead to but one thing: War.
 At Paris and Versailles certain gum shoe diplomats went from dele gation to delegation with this plaint: How can we come to the assist ance of poor China when China her. self is in no condition to accept as sistance?"
 Movie star tears seemed to glisten among their eyelashes, they were 90 sorry
 If President Harding's conference assumes this attitude. history can only record it's failure.
 China . Menace
 China must be treated gently much in the same way that doctor treats a very sick patient.
 Through her delegates she must be brought to a realization that she is today the worlds greatest menace to the peace; that this is not so much her fault as it Is the fault of the Great Powers sitting with her at the table; that these Powers now intend to right past wrongs, in so far as they are able. and that they will dc this by helping her to get on her feet
 Thts-the powers must make plain to the delegation-will be done through, and with the cooperation of the Chinese people themselves and that no infringement on China'' integrity is intended or will be tol- erated.
 In short, as it has been put to me shy China has been betrayed by thu sophisticated powers: it is now III 
 child.
 Never Had . Chance
 And why shouldn't the powers giv' China a square deal?" friendly American official exclaimed "UI to this day the Chinese people hav' never had a dogs chance in thei own country.
 "All their existence they have beer ruled over, and made slaves of D. foreigners. The ancestors of tn Huns. the Mongolians. the Tartars the Munchus-all of them-exploite' the peace loving Chinese durinl thousands of years Then the Euro peans and the Japanese came alonl and took over the job! It's the crim of the ages.
 That he concluded indignantly Ifs something the Washington con feres must not forget"
 Significant and disquieting ques tions are already being propounde
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