Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-06
HARDING PRAISES WORK OF
ARMS FARLEY; ENDS TODAY
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1T Is not pretended that the pur-
suit of peace and the limitations of
armament are new ~conceits or that
the conference is a new conception
either in settlement of war or in
writing the conscience of internal
ttonal relationship. Indeed. it is not
new to have met in the realization
OF wars supreme penalty. The Hague
conventions are examples of the one
the conferences Of Vienna, of Berlin
and Versailles are outstanding in
stances of the other.
The HaEue conventions were de-
feated by the 2ntagonism of one
strong power whose indisposition to
cooperate And sustain, led it to one
of he supreme tragedies which have
come to national eminence. Vienna
and Berlin sought peace founded on
the injustice of var and sowed the
seed a. future conflicts and hatred
was on where conference was stifed.
ut is fail 10 say that human prog
ress. the grown intimacy of Internal
tionai relationship, developed COM
punicatioG and transportation at
Fn1ed by Il directing world opinion.
have set the stage o %favorably
herr. You have met in that calm
deliberativD and that determined
resolution, which have made a Just
peace il, righteous relationship its
own best guarantee.
1T has been the fortune OF this
conference to sit in a day far enough
removed from war bitterness, yet
near enough to wars horrors to gain
the benefits of both the hatred of
war and the yearning for peace. Too
often, heretofore, the peaceful fol-
lowing of such gathering have been
marked by the difficult undoings of
their decision, but your achievement
is supreme. because no seed of con
flict has been sown, no reaction in
regret or resentment can justify re-
sort to arms.
This little matters what we APP
praise as the outstanding accomp-
lishment. Any n of them alone
would havs justified the conference,
but tn whcle achievement has so
cleared the atmosphere that it will
seem like breathing the refreshing
air on a new nor of promise.
you have written the first DELHI
crate ant effective expression of
great POWERS in the consciousness of
peace. of wars utter futility and
challenged the sanity of competitive
preparations of each others destruc-
ton You have halted volleys and
lifted burdens AMI revealed to the
world that me ona sure way to re-
cover from the. sorrow and ruin and
staggering obligation of a world war
is to end the strife in preparation
for more OF it and .urn human ener-
gy to the construct;veness of peace.
mot ali the world is vet tran
oullized. bu. here is the example.
To imbue with new hope all who
dwell in APPREHENSION. AT this table
came an understanding brand of
conflict as abomina1le to the eyes of
enlightened civilization.
II once believed in armed prepar
odness. I advocated it. but | have
come now to believe there is better
preparedness in a public mind and a
world opinion may be ready to grant
Justice precisely as it eXacts it. and
Justice is better served in confer
cnces of peace than i'm conflicts al
arms
| YOU met here twelve weeks ago there
! was not a commitment. not an obli-
cation except that which each dele
| CATION owes to the government com