New-York tribune., 1922-12-30
america amply Safeguarded
By NapuI Treaty, Says Hughes
Denies Any Evasion of Terms Abroad ana pec'S.e'
There Is No Danger of War ii PROVISIONS are C+
ried On, in Present Friendly Reasonable Spirit

/ OF the conference hung uP'" VIZ"
| Element"
un~rItten Results Greatest.
9TH. most important results nc
continued ARE those which are IN
v,r;,ien and uncomfortable. those ina
reIate 10 sentiment and purpose "
aooS ,yIlj and a better understandlhf
tvhen there IL friendship and conn.
5enre treaties 20 maintain peace ar
- ies.t Irportancr and where hus
nic,op and hatred dominate the thougnl
~ neoples IL may be wise 70 inteiPos,
thc mechanism OF eoncillatlon, out INV
hest assurance Of peace Is laeklng. -,
"ff vou would measure the woIA y.
.ha eonference. contrast tho presen'
o,inion as Ia peace In the far Las
iii tLs yiew that was widely held hno
sa,s,or,iv expressed before the con
forence was called. The mists wnien
-s,v called war clouds have been dls'
nniisd Confidence has been restoFeo
gosrr allayed and n new feeling OF re-
speet and friendship engcnderea.
aApto-sueeeEtio has an impot,tAn,'
,isce In national. as well as indiViauAi;,
life. and nations intent on pcH'' '"'
find the ways Of peace
Summarizes Present Resalts
Painting out that the naval treaty
u,iIl not be In force until all the ma
,ions signing Il have ratified II, seere-
tary Hughes showed apeeiieally nov
each nation already was conforming -
its provisions. his summary OF theI
actions being: m.
sI,nited States-immediately aiter
,be sIonine OF the treaty the govern,
ment OF the United states suspeh,uou
all work on ships under consttuc.'o'''
which will be scrapped when the tIsHs's
becomes effective. wish the ehceP.'Vn n
OF the Connecticut. which is about 70
be placed out Of commission, All DAtIie
ships that must be disposed Of unoeF
the terms OF the treaty are now OUT on
commission and arc ready 70 DC
aBritish Empire--By the treaty the
British Empire abandoned the eonstrue-
tions OF the four Hoods which had been
projected. am advised that OF the
twenty other capital ships when "
WAS provided in the treaty should oe
scrapped fourteen have either been al
ready sold and removed by shipbreak-
ing firms for breaking up or have been
rendered incapable Of war service, ana
two more Of these ships will be rem
dered incapable Of war service before
the end OF this month.
Japan am informed that Japan
has suspended work on the battleships
under construction. for the scrapping
Of which the treaty provdesi also that
certain preliminary preparations have
been made so that the ,ther ships,
destined by the treaty for serapping,
may be scrappcd as soon as the treaty
becomes effective
shown Fair by Protests
Evidence Of the fairness Of the pro-
visions Of the treaty was 10 found,
Secretary Hughes said, in tho i'm
mediate outburst Of protests that came
in the United States. Great Britain and
Japan when the text was made known,
numerous influential persons in each
country asserting that their nation was
Disseminated against
For his part, he said, he believed In
maintaining "an efficient navy up %
the treaty standard" not only for rea-
sons OF security. but In order that the
United States might have an assured
basis for any new rationirg OF war
ships that might be made at another
conference.
There had been criticism In this
country, Secretary Hughes said, OF the
provisions Of the treaty relating 20
fortifcations. The United States. ho
explained, was barred By the treaty
from strengthening its fortihcations in
the Philippines, Guam and the Aleutian
Islands.
The prohibition against Guam, he
said, had been blow 10 some naval
authorities, who recognized that The
island might be made into an American
Gibraltar. For this very reason. Seere-
tary Hughes pointed out, any move to-
ward fortifying il would cause uneAsi-
ness to any power with interests In
the Pacific.
He added that those most dcsirouf
OF fortifying Guam probably overlooked
the fact that IL could not be done with
out the authorization OF Congress, and
as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had
pointed out, Congress took 50 little in
terest in the potential Gibraltar" that
10 had not even provided a government
for H. leaving il to the navy which cap
tured II 20 administer It's affairs.
Holds Status Quo Wise Policy
was II not better" asked Secretary
| Hughes, "that az a time OF considerable
tension. instead Of threatening Japar
by a proposal to fortify Guam. W,
should agree that for fifteen years We
should rest content with the situation
with which We had been satisfied foi
the last twenty-three years7 And II
should be remembered that in thc same
treaty Japan undertakes 90 maintain
the status quo IN the Kurile Islands
the Bonin Islands, Amami- Oshima, the
Looehoo Islands, Formosa and the Pes.
cadores and any other insular pos.
sessions she may hereafter acquire.
"My conclusion Is that the Naval
Treaty will stand the test Of analy.
I sis and fair statement, taking all tht
I pertinent facts into consideration, AnC
i that 10 will be desirable Safeguard
and not a menace 10 our security and
az the same time, an important assur
ance OF peace. These happy results
will be attained, however, on the con.
dition that we act toward other ma.
tions Ia the same spirit Of reasonable
ness and friendship that we expect
them 20 exhibit toward us.'
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