Arizona republican., 1922-02-07
ARMS PARLEY
ENDS LABORS
WITH SIGNING
Of TREATIES
Delegates Renew Express
ions Of Qualification
Over Results Of Negotia-
tions Lasting IL Weeks
IRepublloan a. ?. Leased wIrel


WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.--Its cove
nants finally signed and sealed, the
Washington conference was passed
on to history today by President
Harding as an example to imbue
with new hope all that dwelt in ap-
prehension.'
Speaking before plenary session
which brought to close negotiations
begun 10 weeks ago at his invita-
tion, he declared that the record of
achievement voiced in courageous
tones the first deliberate and effect
i've expression of great powers, in
the consciousness Of peace, by wars
utter futility."
Before him lay, newly signed, the
treaties by which the world pre-
dominant nations engaged to limit
their pavies, to guarantee n square
deal Tor China and to set up an in-
ternational concord to keep the peace
III the Pacific.
ut matters little," he said, what
we appraise as the outstanding ac-
complishment. Any one OF them
alone would have justified the con-
ference. But the whole achievement
has 20 cleared the atmosphere that 1t
will seem like breathing the refresh
inR air Of new morn Of promise"
ut may be that the naval holiday
here contracted will expire with the
treaty but do not so believe. Those
Of use who live another decade are
more likely to witness a growth OF
public opinion, strengthened by the
new experience, which will make ma
lions more concerned with living TO
the fuIfi1lment of Gods high intent
than with a genius of warfare ana
destruction.
Future Conferences
aSince this conference of nations
has pointed with unanimity to the
way Of peace, today, like conferences
in the future under appropriate con-
ditions and with aims we'll conserved
and definite, may illuminate the
highways and byways Of human ac-
tivity. The torches of understanding
have been lighted and they ought to
glow and encircle the globe"
The President delivreed his mes
sage as soon as the formal signing
OF the treaties had been concluded
and when he finished the conference
closed, as, il had opened November II,
with prayer. Within a few hours
some of the foreign delegations all
ready had left Washington and most
81 the others will go tomorrow.
-Four treaties and supplement- to
a fifth were given final approval to-
day, but their red wax seals had been
attached in advance and the entire
ceremony occupied less than an hour.
No other business remained and the
seventh and final plenary session adj
iourned at 1913 q. M. one hour and
eleven minutes after it was called
TO order.
In the order OF their signature, the
instruments to which the plenipoten-
tiaries affixed their names were the
four power Pacific treaty supple
ment excluding the principal Japa-
nese islands from the scope of the
pact: the five-power naval limitation
treaty: the five power submarine and
poison gas treaty; the nine power
general Far Eastern treatry, and the
nine power Chinese tariff treaty. OF
the khree other treaties resuEing
from the negotiations that relating
10 Shantung was signed Saturday and
those dealing with cable rights In
Yap. and ALLEGATION Of the former
German Pacific cables are yet to be
nut into final form by direct ex-
changes between the interested gov
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