The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-07
FARLEY RESULTS
Crafty PEOPLE,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Achievements Recounted
In Address Closing
Arms Conference.

me text of the Presidents fare
wen address at the arms confer
ence follows:
Mr.. Chairman and membess Of the
conference:
yearly three months ago It was
privilege TO utter to yoss SIN
rest words of welcome to the
Iapital OF our republic. to suggest
me spirit in which you were In
eo, and to intimate the atmos-
pnere In which you were asked to
eonLer In a very general way.
pernaps. ventured to express a
nope Tor the things toward which
our aspirations led us.
Today II Is my greater privilege,
end an even greater pleasure. to
'eome To make acknowledgment. 1t
one OF the supreme compensa-
IONS OF life to contemplate a
Worthwhile Accomplishment.
cannot be other than seemly
TOT me. as the only chief of gov
eminent SO circumstanced as to be
doIe to address the conference, TO
speak congratulations, and to offer
tne thanks OF our nation. our peo-
PFC perhaps I dare volunteer to
utter them for the world. Ny own
sratlncation is beyond my capac-
ity to express.
Truly Great Achievement.
rms conference has wrought a
truly great achievement. 1t Is
hazardous sometimes to speak in
superlatives. and will be re-
strained. But I will say. with ev-
cry confidence. that the faith
pilghted here today. kept in ma
tonal honor. will mark the begin
ming Of a new and better epoch
IN human progress
stripped to the simplest fact.
What Is the spectacle which has in
spired a new hope for the world?
Gathered about this table nine great
nations of the earth-not all, to be
sure, but those most directly con-
cerned with the problems at hand
have met and have conferred on
questions of great import and COM
mon concern. on problems menac-
ing their peaceful relationship, on
burdens threatening common
peril. In the revealing light of the
public opinion of the world, with
out surrender of sovereignty. with
out impaired nationality or affront-
ed national pride. a solution has
been found in unanimity, and to-
Gays adjournment is marked by re-
Jotctng in the things ACCOMPLISHED.
III the world has hungered for new
assurance it may feast at the han
quet which the conference has
spread
Americans Are Gratined.
am sure the people of the
United states are supremacy graft
NED. and yet there Is scant appre-
citation how marvelously you have
wrought. When the DAYS were
dragging and agreements were
delayed, when there were obstacles
within and hindrances without, few
stopped to realize that there was a
conference of sovereign powers
where only unanimous agreement
could be made the rule. Majorities
could not decide without impinging
national rights. There were no vic
tors to command. no vanquished to
yield. All had voluntarily to agree
in translating the conscience of our
civilization and give concrete ex-
preston to world opinion.
And you have agreed. in spite
of all difficulties. and the agree
ments are proclaimed to the world
No new standards of national honor
have been sought. but the indIct-
been drawn, and the world Is ready
to proclaim the odiousness of per-
fidy or infamy.
1t is not pretended that the pur-
suit of peace and the limitations
of ornaments are new conceits or
that the conference is a new con-
ception either in settlement of war
or in writing the conscience of in
ternational relationship. Indeed, II
is not new to have met in the real
ization of wars supreme penalties.
The Hague conventions are exam
pies of the one: the conference of
Vienna, of Berlin, of Versailles, are
outstanding instances of the other.
Hague Conventions Lost.
The Hague conventions were de-
feated by the antagonism of one
strong power whose indisposition
to cooperate and sustain led it to
one of the supreme tragedies which
have come to national eminence.
Vienna and Berlin sought peace
founded on the injustices of war
and sowed the seed of future con-
flict. and hatred was armed where
confidence was stif1ed.
II is fair to say that human prog
ress, the grown intimacy of inter-
national relationship, developed
communication and transportation,
attended by a directing world opin-
ion. have set the stage more IA
vorably here. You have met in that
calm elaboration and that deter
mined resolution which have made
a just peace. in righteous relation
ship, its own best guaranty.
1t has been the fortune of this
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