The New York herald., 1922-02-08
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washington SoAieISllSe ONO OF TN
greatest achievements ever registered
in the history of the world.
The Premier. replying to a criticism
by John Robert Clynes, chairman O
the Parliamentary Labor party, tha
the Washington conference had deal
only with the arithmetic of peace
contended it was only when such pro
posals as were before the conference
were reduced 20 arithmetic that they
began to do the business of peace.
The Hague conference. said the
Prime Minister, had passed great res
| olutions which were never reduced tc
| arithmetic, and when the great quar-
rel came these resolutions were swept
aside, not retarding for a single mo-
ment the march of the armies. Arith-
metic on this occasion, added the Pre-
mier, would have the effect of saving
millions of pounds in this years esti-
mates.
Harding and hughes Praised.
Lord Curzon, Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, in the House of Lords to-day
made reference to the Washington
conference in similar terms to the
Prime Minister'S speech in the Com
mons, paying tribute to the bold and
wise initiative" of President Harding
and Secretary Hughes. He empha-
sized the Importance Of a treaty which
removed the barriers to friendship be-
tween Great Britain, the United States
and Japan involved in an Anglo
Japanese alliance, and commended the
good sense and public spirit of all par
ties concerned, including the japanese
delegates, who. he said, conducted their
sagacity and a sincere desire by con-
citation to arrive at good results.
Lord Curzon said he thought il
would be a great mistake to form a
defensive and offensive alliance with
France. He doubted if any Govern
mept proposing such an alliance would
be supported by the country. 1t was
desirable to get away from the old
policy of military alliances, which had
turned Europe into armed camps
bristling with guns and threatening
the peace Of the world. The Govern
ment ought to do nothing to encour-
age such a policy.
Several of the peers spoke in com
plimentary terms of the work of the
Washington conference and the atti-
tude of the Japanese delegates.
| Capt. Douglas Hacking and Sir Lam
ing Worthington-E Evans, in the House
of Commons, in moving and secondinG
the address of thanks to the King for
his speech paid tribute to the results
attained at the Washington confer
ence.
Hopes for World Disarmfng.
| Mr.. Clynes expressed the hope that
further conferences would briny no,
only the limitation Of armaments bu
| the actual disarmament of the world
In his opinion the Washington con-
| ference "kept rather too closely to the
arithmetic of the instruments of war
He did not believe there was any
chance If maintaining the peace Of tho
world by any process of measuring the
weapons of war.
| Mr.. Clynes asked what was the Brit
ish Governments attitude toward the
French policy. declaring that the L.abol
party believed in pact or alliance
which held out not merely the pros
| pect of maintaining the security OF
one country but Of ALL The Labor
party was prepared TO give the Gov
ernment every aid to complete the
Irish settlement, and he suggested
| that il the boundary question could moi
otherwise be settled plebiscite should
be held.
Sir Donald MacLean. Liberal. allud
/ ing to the Washington conference
hoped that the United States would
be brought into closer relations will
| Europe.
Nothing could be more disastrous
for the general peace of the world" III
added. than that the United State.
should maintain her traditional at
titude that she had no real respons-
ibility, nor could render any usefu
service by entering into arrangement.
with the Old World"
He hoped the United States woult
share with Great Britain the burden:
of the world as whole.
Must Give France Guaranty.
After references to the Washington
conference and the House of Lords
to the reform of which he felt com
mitted. the Prime Minister passed I,
a. review of the general situation a
home and abroad. OF the propose,
pact with France he contended tha
the British and French purposes wer
alike, though their methods might no
always agree. He believed that evel
Germany would not regard the pac
with unfriendly eye. and argued tina
france must be assured that she i
not isolated, nothing being more dan
gerous than the fear OF isolation.
Give confidence. and you give calm
ness" said Mr.. Lloyd George. "On
of the greatest dangers for Europ
would be for the young generation ii
Germany TO be brought up with tn
thought OF vengeance: you must max
Germany feel that a policy of reveng
would not pay. and convince ever.
German that such policy would b.
fatal to his own country.
England is in honor bound to Civ
France some guarantee to replace tn
guarantee given by President Wilson
and Mr.. Balfour at Versailles to in
duce France to abandon what /
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