Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-11
GENOA SESSION
OUTGROWTHOF
ARMS MEETING
u. S. WithhOldS Decision, How
ever, on Participation in 2
Economic Farley.
HARDING IS GRATIFIED
Special to Indian Daily Times
and Philadelnhia I nblic Ledger.
Rr FREDERIC WILLIAM WI

Special to Indian Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-Cannes and
Washington have Joined hands. From
the highest American quarter the tnti-
nation is forthcoming that the proposed
Genoa economic conference IAN be re-
garded as the direct outgfOwth Of the
Washington armament confereaes Had
NOS t4e one taken place and achieved
eminent results, the other would not now
be in prcsI ect.
1t was sta. ed at the White House no
confidence w1 Uld be violated in thds max
ing pu5.ic the link forged between the
two. Information to that effect has
reached Washington from Cannes, EVIL
IDENTIFY through Ambassador Harvey, our
observer" there Events on the Potomac
during the past TWO months ''demon-
strated the desirability Of cOaferFDcs' so
impressively to statesmen now on the
Riviera that they decided TO invoke a
like recourse for discussion OF the
shattered economies of Europe.
The Cabinet took no decisions yester-
day ith regard to the Genoa confer
enc. There was, nevertheless, a s!gnin-
cant allusion to the probability that the
inclusion Of soviet Russia, under the con-
ditions laid down at Cannes, viii not de-
bar American participation in the eco
nomic conference. At the White House
it is felt the Cannes resolutions defining
a basis for soviet recognition constitute
a complete vindicatiOn Of the policy con-
sistently maintained by tho Jnited States
toward the BoIsheyist government OF
Russia.
RUSSIA MUST
ACKNOWLEDGE DEBTS.
The resolutions, adopted by the su-
preme council Jan. 8 provide that Russia,
in common with other European powers,
must acknowledge the validity Of her
outstanding foreign obligations, restore
confscated property, possess a suitable
monetary system, offer proper guarantees
TO trade. and abstain from all propa-
gauda subversive Of public order or po-
litical systems established in other coun-
tries.
In one Of his first pronouncements as
Secretary Of State Charles Evans Hughes
declined relations with soviet Russia De-
cause 1t was accomplishing the progress
sive impOverishment" Of that country.
President Harding feels the conditions
imposed for soviet participation at the
Genoa meeting are thus in absolute &C
cord with the foreign policy Of the United
States" toward the red government OF
Moscow.
There was another indication Of pros
pective American policy at Genoa, IL
America sits in" 1t already has been
reshadowed in these dispatches-name-
IL. that he United States considers the
$4,000 90. 600 allied debt owing this cOun-
try a matter over which no conference
can have an ylesitimate jurisdiction.
HARDING ADMITS
RATIFICATION.
President Harding is frankly gratifed
over the hallmark Of sterling approval
which. as he views II, the converting Of
the Genoa conference places on the meetss'
ing drawing to a close in WashingtOnkl
The President feels, too. that the Irish
settlement is a new and bright link in
the chain Of world understanding" and
considers It additional evidence Of tho
efficiency Of conference on controversial
issues. Occasion, therefore. was taken
afresh at the White House to emphasize
that the results o. the Washington con-
ference outstrip immeasurably any
concrete results, however important,
achieved here.
The White House this week has had
still other corroborstive evidence on that
score. 1t comes from an European de-
scribed as 'one Of the most distinguished
statesmen in the world and visest COM
mentators on history" The description
fits Lord Bryce. Whoever IL IL, he has
Just written an American friend in elo-
quent praise of the conference, declaring
the things already accomplished would
mark an epoch in the progress Of human
affairs"
Elihu Root. in private conversation,
gives expression TO precisely the same
thought. The American delegate says it
is the new tendency the conference has
introduced in world affairs that will count
and endure.
SENATE TO
CONSIDER TREATIES.
The President made known that imme-
d'ately after the conferences adjourn
uent there will be submitted to the Ser
ate for consideration and ratification all
the treaties and agreements the conference
adopts. They will be submitted en- bloc
and at the earliest possible moment.
They will be four. perhaps five, in num-
Der. They probably would include the
four-power Pacific treaty. the nve-power
naval pact, the six-power Pacific cable
agreement. the zap cable pact with
Japan. and the nine-p power CONTINENTAL
agreement regarding Asia. It is in the
last-named treaty, or declaration. pre-
sumably. the United States policy OF
moral trusteeship' over Russia will be
included. Secretary Hughes, contrary to
pessimiStic rumor, insists Siberia, always
having been on the conference ageada. will
not be ignored. CLOSED over. or neg
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