The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
TREATIES
STILL UNRATIFIED
The Four and Nine-Power
Pacts of Farley Not
Yet Operating

Special to The World
WASiIINGTOS. sept 16--Rcpub-
licaus are disappointed that they
must go into tho FAN elections with
out the horsepower pact ueRotintod
by the Washington conference. be-
ing ratified and in operation.
Neither have any Of the other tfoa-
ties negotiated here been ratified.
Just as the United states refused
90 ratify the league of nations pact
su have other countries TO date, de
clined 10 ratify the treaties nogo-
tiated here
Ten Months Have Passed.
Approximately ten months have
passed since Secretary Hughes.
speaking for the United States gov
crnmont at the opening of the Wash
ington conference on Limitation OF
armament and the problems OF the
Pacific. proposed a program ~ naval
limitations that astoundcd by Its
fraukness the diplomats OF the world
and gave hope TO tax-burdened
peoples
For three months the representa-
tivcs OF nine powers labprcd here,
ana out of their lab0rs came three
major treaties aud number Of
other agreements OF much import
nr~e. Tho first Of these treaties Is
tho flvc-power naval limitation
treaty signed by the United states
Great Britain, France. Italy and
Japan The second is the four power
Pacific treaty. signed by the United
states. Great Britain, France aud
Japan; and the third is the nine
power far east treaty. guaranteeing
tho integrity of China, Britain,
France. Italy, Japan, belgium, Por-
L.V nj fnu
And, Of tremendous importance to
peace I'm the far east, there was
negotiated here NJ the same time
the so-Cntled Shantung treaty be-
tween Japan and China, under
which provision was made for the
return by Japan OF the former Ger
man holdings IN the province Of
ShantunF and China.
what Is the situation today with
regard to these treaties and agree
ments? what has been the effect
" the Washington conference up TO
the present time2
Some Partially Satisfied.
Three OF the nations involved,
cept, OF course, tho Shantung treaty
have ratified I'm effect all OF the
treaties and agreements. though
parliamentary processes in Great
Britain are not yet complete They
are the United states, Great Britain
and Japan. China has ratified the
nine-power treaty. and both China
and Japan have ratified the shan
tung treaty.
The fve-power treaty, therefore,
has been ratified by three Of the
powers signatory to IT,, the United
states. Great Britain and Japan, The
hnnn
ratified by three Of the four nations
signing IT, the United states, Great
Britain and Japan; and the nine
power far east treaty has been rati-
fled by four OF the nine nations, the
United States. Great Britain, Japan
and China.
That oll Of the treaties and COM
pacts will be ratified eventually by
all the nations involved Is the con-
fident expe citation OF the officials OF
the administration. In the case Of
some OF the nations opportunity
must he given for further meeting
OF their parliamentary bodies. But
few more months at most Is con-
sidered all the time necessary for
ratification. when all the nations
have ratified the formal ratlflca-
tions Will be exchanged here in
Washington. the diplomatic repre-
sentatives Of the various nations
presenting the action OF their gov
ernments The president OF the
United States will then announce the
exchange and the treaties win be I'm
full force and effect. Things are
moving along as rapidly as could
be expected, officials here contend.
France 10 Act Readily.
In France the treaties have been
! 90 20 oh n fgth NJ ~
| No action has yet been taken upon
| them. The French parliament does
not reconvene until about the middle
| OF October. But II ia pointed out
| that the French government has
| submitted the treaties without pro-
posing any amendments or reserva-
| tions, and II IL expected that they
/ will he ratified as they stand, al
! though there have been some sug-
gestions by unofficial sources in
France that reservations should be
made.
Italy, Il appears, is waiting upon
! France to ratity, II was the con-
tention OF italy at the Washington
conference that she was in hearty
accord with the United states and
the treaties proposed, but that It was
essential for her to know what
France would do and TO have what
France had. This with particular
reference to the naval Limitation
treaty. So the RATIFICATION by Italy
OF the pacts signed by her ia ex-
pected to follow promptly action by
France.
France has been occupied for
months with the problem OF Ger
man reparOtions. Everything, Il
seems, revolyes around that prob
lem, and even the Washington trca-
ties in a way may be- said 20 be In
volved, in the French mind. with
this problem. But whatever the
final solution OF that problem, Il j.,
not believed here that France will
B be willing 10 turn down the Wash
ington treaties,
hut Italy May Ralk.
; The belief exists In some informed
T foreign quarters here, however thai
, even should France fail 10 ratify the
, naval limitation treaty and Italy fol
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