The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1922-02-10
"GREAT WORK" SAYS
PRESIDENT HARDING

uldut H3 fIeSlueit AtEulilB at tile
concluding session today of the arms
conference follows:
MIR. Chairman and members Of
tie conference.
Nearly three months ago, it was
my privilege to utter to you SINGER
est words of welcome to the capital
of our republic to suggest the spirit
in which you were invited and to
intimate the atmosphere in which
you were asked to confer In very
general way, perhaps, | ventured to
express a hope for the things to-
ward which our aspirations led us.
To-day it is my greater privilege,
and even greater pleasure, to come
to make Acknowledgement. 1t is
one Of the supreme compensatiOns
OF life to contemplate a worth while
accomplishment.
1T cannot be other than seemly
for me, as the only chief of govern
ment so to be able to address the
conference, TO speak congratulations
and to offer the thanks of our ma
tion, our people, perhaps | dare ut
ter them for the world. My own
qualification is beyond my capacity
to express.
This conference has wrought a
truly great achievement. II is haz-
ardous sometimes TO speak in su
perlatives, and | will be restrained.
But | will say, with every conf
dence, that the faith plighter here
today, kept in national honor, will
mark the beginning of new and
better epoch in human progress.
stripped to the simplest fact
what is the spectacle which has in
spired anew 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 hand4
have met and have conferred on
questions of great import and com
mon concern on problems menacing
their peaceful relationship on bur-
dens threatening a common peril.
In the revealing light of the public
opinion of the world, without sur
render of sovereignty without in-
paired nationality, or offended ma
tional pride, a solution has been
found in unanimity and today's ad
iuurnment is marked by rejoicing
in the things accomplished. If the
world has hungered for new assur
ance it may feast at the banquet
which the conference has spread.
Have Wrought MarVelOuSly
II am sure the people of The Unit
ed states are supremely gratified
and yet there is scant appreciation
of how marVelously you have
wrought, When the days we're drag
| ging and agreements were delayed,
when there were obstacles within
ard bindrances without, few stop
pei TO realize that here was a con
ference Of sovereign powers where
only unanimous agreement could pt
made the rule. &
"Maiorlties could not decide with
Iout impugning national rights, There
we're no victors to command, NJ
yunquisned TO yield All had vc.-
UNFAIRLY TO agree in translatinS the
conscience of our civilization and
give concrete expression to world
] opinion.
And you have agreed in spite of
all difficulties, and the agreements
are proclaimed to the world. No
new ST lGtrds Of nationa! honogs
rave beer sought but the ind'cl-
ments Of national dishonor have
been drawn, and the world is ready
to proclaim the odiousness of per-
( fidity or infamy.
Ut is not pretended that the pur-
I suit of peace and the limitation of
armament are new conceits, or that
the conference is a new conception
of internationalship Indeed, il is
( not new 10 have met in the realiza-
ton of wars supreme penalties The
/ Hague conventions are examples of
! the one, the conference of Vienna
OF Berlin, Of Versailles, are out
standing instances Of the other
Ny'hy The Hague Failed
The Hague conventions were de-
feated by the antagonism OF one
strong power, whose indispOsition 10
cooperate and sustain led Il TO one
Of the supreme tragedies which have
come 10 national eminenee Vienna
and Berlin sought peaee founded
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