Evening star., 1922-02-11
CONFERENCE SUMMARY
GIVEN TO THE SENATE
Document Presented BY President Reoeals
How Hopes We're Unfolded and Came
To Final Realization.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -
The arms conference treaties sub
mitted for ratification yesterday by
President Harding are. declared by
the American delegation in its re-
port to him to rest upon a new Inter-
national state of mind" which sub
stitutes mutual faith for suspicion
and apprehension.
The report, ninety-page printed
document, was laid before the Senate
yesterday by MIR. Harding along with
the treaties. 1t reviews the con-
ference negotiations. contains alb
stracts of the treaties and resolutions
approved and quotes at length from
various declarations and speeches
made in committee or plenary ses-
sion and previously published.
Must BE Taken rs whole.
Summarizing the results of tho con-
ference, the delegation declares that
to appraise correctly the accomplish
ments they must all be considered as
whole, since each contributes 70
combination of conditions "in which
peaceful security will take the place
of competitive preparation for war.
The summary continues:
'"The declared object was, In It's ma
val aspect, to stop the race OF COM
petitive building OF warshtps. Com
petitive armament. however, Is the
result Of a state of mind In which
national expectation OF attack py
some other country causes prepara-
tion to meet the attack. To stop
competition 1t is necessary TO deai
with the state Of mind from which IT
results. belief in the pacihc In
tentions of other powers must be
substituted for suspicion ana appre-
hension.
Part of a Plan.
"The negotiations which led to the
four-power treaty weres the process
of attaining that new state OF MIND.
the expression Of the new state of
mind. 1t terminated the Anglo,
Japanese alliance and substituted
friendly conference In place OF war as
the first reaction from any contro-
versies which might arise in the
region of the Pacific; it would not
have been possible except as part OF
plan including Limitation and
a reduction of naval armament, ou!
that Limitation and reduction would
not have been possible witnout .ne
new relations established by the four
power treaty or something equivalent
..The new relations declared in the
four-power treaty could not, how
ever. inspire confidence a,,'e,aeae or De seae
without specific understanding as to
the relations of the powers to China
Such an understanding had Two
aspects. One related to securing
fairer treatment of China and the
other related to the competition Tor
trade and Industrial advantages In
China between the outside powers.
Pact In First Article.
An agreement covering both OF
these grounds in q rather funda-
mental way was embodied In the
first article of the general nine
power treaty. regarding China. IN
order. however. to bring the ruies
realm of mere abstract propositions
and make them practical rules OF
conduct 1t was necessary to provide
for applying them so far as the pres,
ent condition of government ana
social order in China permit. This
was done by the remaining provis-
ions of the general nine-power treaty
and Chinese customs treaty and tne
series of formal resolutions adopted
by the conference in its plenary ses-
made a part of the record of the con-
ference justify the relation OF con
fidence and good will expected In ene
four-power treay and upon wnicn
the reduction of armament PROVIDED
in the naval treaty may be contem-
Recounts steps Before Call.
A, the berinninx of the report the
deieration recounts the diplomatic
steps leading up to the conference,
quotes from the Presidents opening
address and sets forth the manner
in which the conference was organ
ized. 1t says this regarding puohc-
ity; rs,,,. ~ ,h. commit
tees were not public, a complete
record was kept of all their proceed
inss. and at the close Of each ses.
sion Of the committee on armament
and on Pacific and far eastern ques-
tions. respectively, a communique was
made to the press, which. generally,
stated all that had taken place In the
committee, and in all cases, set forth
whatever matters Of Importance had
received attention. Thus, iull pub
lefty was given to the proceedings
of the conference. >.
Excerpts from the report. as it
touched on specific subjects under ne
gotiation, follow:
Limitation Of Land Armament.
"It was recognized at the outset
that it would be difficult, II not I'M
possible, to provide at this confer
ence for the limitation Of land forces:
states is concerned, there was no
question presented. The British en-
pire has also reduced its, land forces
to a minimum. The situation on the
continent was vividly depicted in an
eloquent address by NJ BRAND"
(Here follow quotations from the ad-
dress of Premier BRAND. setting forth
Frances reluctance to reduce her
army, and from addresses by Sena-
tor Schanzer for italy and Baron Kato
for Japan.)
Further consideration made it quite
clear that no agreement for the 1imi-
tation Of land forces could be had at
this time"
Limitation OF Naval Armament.
"It was obvious that no agreement
for limitation was possible II the
powers were not content to take as a
basis their actual existing naval
strength. 1t was impossible to ter
ment II the powers were to condition
their agreement upon the advantages
they hoped to gain in the competition
itself. Accordingly. when the argu-
ment was presented by Japan that a
better ratio-that Is, one more favor
the American plan-should be adopted
and emphasis was placed upon the as
serted needs of Japan, the answer
was made that IL Japan was entitled
to better ration upon the basis of
actual existing naval strength, II
should be, but otherwise could not be,
accepted.
Before asserting to this ratio
$3.50 the Japanese government de-
sired assurances with regard to the
increase of Notifications and naval
bases in the Pacific ocean. 1t was in
sisted that while the capital ship ra-
ito proposed by the American govern
ment might be acceptable under ex-
listing conditions, 1t could not be re-
garded as acceptable by the Japanese