The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-08
TO REJECT FOUR
POWER MEASURE
WOULD MEAN WAR
Senator Lodge Warns Senate of
Treaty's Importance.
Entire List of Treaties Are De-
Tended by Floor Leader.
RESULT OF ARMS CONFERENCE
Plans for World Peace Carried
by the Pact.
Termination of AngIO-Jap Al
lance Carried Out.
Entire List of Treaties Are De-
Tended by Floor Leader.
RESULT OF ARMS CONFERENCE
Plans for World Peace Carried
by the Pact.

Washington. March s.-The Lans-
ing-Ishn agreement has been COM
pletely superseded by the nine-power
treaty relating to China now before
the senate. President Harding in
formed the senate today in response
to the recently adopted Borah resolu-
tfon. The. executive added that ''the
four-power treaty did not refer to
China and does not directly bear upon
the Lansing-Ishn notes"
The famous agreement, which has
been a bone of contention for years
has mo binding effect whatsoever"
the president stated. either with re-
spect to the past or to the future.
which is in any sense inconsistent
with the principles and policies eX-
pIicitly declared in the nine-power
tChinese) treaty
Washington. March s.-senator
Henry Cabot Lodge warned the United
States senate today that il it rejects
the FOUR power Pacific treaty. it puts
renewed life in the Anglo-Japanese
alliance. beckOns to the grim posi-
bility Of war. and destroys the whole
works of the arms conference
Rejection Means War Menace.
Speaking " ith an intensity unusual
FOR him. Senator Lodge defended the
entire lot of conference treaties, as
well as the course pursued by the
American delegates in the conference
and declared that senate rejection
would leave a shocked and startled
world sJiH menaced by the horrors
Of 1914-191S.
..The defeat of the four power !
treaty would mean the failure of the |
conference declared Lodge. Let +
there be no Illusion on that point"
The American delegates. Secretary /
Hughes. Elihu Root. Senator Under /
wood and himself. were in entire ac-
cord Lodge said. for a month before 4
and during the conference. on what 4
should be accomplished
Were Three Great ObjecuVes.
I'VE were clearly of the opinion"
he said. that there lay before US three
gredt objectiyes. One was the termi- /
nation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
The next was an agreement between I
the five powers for a reduction of
naval armament The third was TO |
accomplish all that was possible to aid f.
China in the establishment of a free
and Independent government and par ,
tfcularly to secure the restoration of
Chinese empire to which it rightfully
belonged
I'VE succeeded in attaining all these
objects The treaty now before US
terminates the AnklO-JdpdHeSe am
ance. 1 think the obligation to meet
and consult is the only obligation ex-
listing in this treaty.
1T is sufficient to say that in my
judgment. the Anglo-Japanese alli- /
,ance is the most dangerous element in
our relations with the Far East and
with the Pacific.
Alliance Threatened Navy Reduction.
There is NJ likeness between that
alliance and TIA : treaty.
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csc alliance made il possible TO bring
shout a reduction of naval armament.
While the alliance existed, reduction
OF naval armament was difficult il
not impractical Senators should bear
in mind that the defeat of the four
powered treaty would endanger the
naval limitation treaty and failure of
the naval treaty would shock and
startle the world and bitterly disap-
point the American Ieople."
The Republican leaGer painted
gloomy picture OF the world war and
the possibility Ct the world being
conference works were nullified by
The senate
Hope for Future Peace With Us.
The miseries and horrors of the
great war" he said. must never come
again If we can do anything TO pre-
vent it.
1T was with this hope. with this
purpose that the conference met. L
know it is only beginning.
If we fail. tho outlook for the fu-
ture is dark. indeed The best hone
of the world for future peace is in the
people OF the Unifed States II we
fail. who can we hope to succeed?
This No Time to Fail.
I'VE called this conference. we pro-
posed these treaties. declarations and
agreements Are we to stumble and
fall at threshold of the undertaking
which we designed and brought to full
fillment2
If we cannot do this. then no one
can. and then the clouds of war will
again settle heavily over the-Auture of
civilization The United States has
never Yet permitted failure or defeat
to be written in her history. She will
not permit il now. Under her lead
beginning has been made to secure the
worlds 5 peace in the coming years
Let US not hliehf or with or this hnnta >,