The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-11
J. s. DELEGATES.
 REVIEW FARLEY IN. REPORT ID HARDING.
Declare Accomplishments Will Result in Peaceful Security Taking Place of Com
 petitive Armament
By Associated Frees

Washington, February 10.-The arms conference treaties submitted for ratification today by President Harding Are declared by the Ameri- can delegation in their report to him to rest upon a new international state of mind" which substitutes mutual faith for suspicion and ap- prehension.
 The report. B so-pAss printed docu- ment. was laid before the Senate by Mir Harding along with the treaties It reviews the conference negotia- tions. contains abstracts of the trea' ties and resolutions approved and quotes at length from various "dec. larations" and speeches made In com mittes or plenary session and pre- viously published.
 Summarizing the results of the conference. the delegation declares that to appraise correctly the accom-. plishments they must all be consid- cred as a whole. since each contrib utes to a combination of conditions fin which peaceful security will take the place of competitive preparation for war" The summary continues:
 Armament State of Mind
 The declared object was, in Its naval aspect, to stop the race of com petitive building of warships. Com petitive armament, however. is ths result of a state of mind In which a national expectation of attack by some other country causes prepara- ton to meet the attack. To stop com petition 1t Is necessary to deal with the state of mind from which 1t re- suits. A belief in the pacific inten- tions of other powers must be sub- l,substituted for suspicion and appre- 'hension.
 "The negotiations which led to the four power treaty were the process of attaining that new state of mind and the four-power treaty itself was the expression of the new stats Of mind. It terminated the Anslo-Jap- aness alliance and substituted friend ly conference in place of war as the l first reaction from any controversies which might arise In the region ot 1 the Pacific; 1t would not have been possible except as part of q plan in- ciudinK a limitation and reduction Of naval armament, but that limitation | and reduction would have not been 1 possible without the new relations established by the four power treaty, or something equivalent to 1t.
 Need of Chinese Understanding
 The new relations declared in the four-power treaty could not, however, inspire confidence or be reasonably assured of continuance without spe- cific understanding as to the relations of the powers to China. Such an un- derstandinE had two aspects. One re- 1 lated to securing fairer treatment of China and the other related to the competition for trade and industrial advantages in China between the out side powers.
 An agreement covering both of these grounds in a rather fundamen- tal way was embodied in tho first ticle of the general nine-power treaty rexardinx China In order. however. to bring the rules set out in that ar ticle out of the realm of mere ab- stract propositions and make them practical rules of conduct 1t was nec- essary to provide for applying them so far as the present conditions Of | government and social order in China hermit. This was done by the re- maIninr provisions of the general nine-power treaty and Chinese GUS l toms treaty and the series of formal resolutions adopted by the conference lin It's plenary sessions and in the for mai discussions made a part of the record of the conference justify the relations of confidence and good will expressed in the four-power treaty and upon which the reduction of ar mament provided in the naval treaty may be contemplated with sense oi security"
 Diplomatic Steps Reeounted At the beginning of the report the delegation recounts the diplomatic steos leading up to the conference quotes from the Presidents opening address and sets forth the manner fn ! which the conference was organized. Says this of publicity:
 While the sessions of the commit | tees were not public. a complete rec ord was kept of all their proceedings | and at the close of each session oi the committees on armament and or Pacific and far eastern questions respectively, communique was made | to the press which generally stated all that had taken place in the com | mittee and in all cases set forth whatever matters Of importance had received attention. Thus full pub- sicity was given to the proceedings oi 1.-the conference"
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