The Washington times., 1922-03-21
HE'S DENIES j. s. HAS SECRET AGREEMENT WITH BRITAN

Alliance Assertions
BY Uaivsr.., servs.
IYERE is the stenogrdphic report of the assertion
of "secret understanding" bstscecn the United
States and Great Britain, made by Paul d. Cravath,
read yesterday IN the Senate By Senator Borah:
Cravath-"Now to my mind very important part
Of the achievements of the Washington Conference Is
not recorded at all in black and white in that treaty
or in any Of the other treaties that negotiated
And that Is the bringing about Of what to be
| sympathetic understanding between the United
States and Great Britain regarding the Far East and
Pacific questions generally quite agree that under
practically surrendered naval position in the
Pacific. assume that without further fortiAcatons
as agreed upon, we could not successfully compete
with Japan in the Pacific alone, and certainly we
could not compete with Anglo Japanese fleet in
that region.
ION the other hand, and to my mind this is the
much more encouraging statement based the same
fact, an Anglo-American fleet in tho Pacific would
dominate Japan; and it seems to me what we have
substituted in place of the necessity for creating the
greatest fleet the world has seen with all the
expense and temptation that involves, an under
standing and basis for cooperation with Great
Britain which gives those two powers the control of
combined fleet in the Pacific which will be large
enough to dominate Japan and make her live up to
the obligations she has assumed
Mr.. Davis (Norman H. Davis, former Under secre-
tary of State)-"I want to know if you are making
that statement as fact, or Is it just your own
opinion Of what would happen?'
ORAVATH-"1 HAVE BEEN TOLD BY EVERY
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION,
EVERY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH DELEGA-
TON, KNOW DEFINITELY THAT THE VIEW
IS HELD BY MR.. BALFOUR, AND THINK BY
TaEE rha@ 4Hs Of THE
CONFERENCE HAS BEEN NOT A FORMAL
AGREEMENT, BY ANY MEANS, BUT AN UNDER
STANDING AND SUCH DEGREE OF UNDER
sSex AND SuCn BASIS OF
BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES THAT
BOTH SIDES ASSUMED THAT IN ALL FUTURE
EMERGENCIES THEY CAN BOTH COUNT ON
MAvINe HAY THE VERY CLOSEST co-oPERA-
Davis-"No, that isn't what mean. What
mean is to the agreements on Notifications and
the agreement as to the naval ratio; do you mean
to say that both fleets would dominate the japanese
Cravath-"0f course have no independent
knowledge of that, not naval expert and have
no independent opinion on that point; but am in
formed that our technical advisers are satisfied that
if the United States and Great Britain on ono
side and Japan on the other, the Anglo American
fleet and the entire American naval position
would dominate that Of Japan in Japanese waters.
AS say, have no independent opinion of my own
on that.
II am simply repeating that which have been |
told in Washington. But in all events, very
much better off, if right in assuming that un-
DERIVING sympathy with Great Britain, than we would
have been with largo a fleet as the we have |
had in contemplation and on our building program,
being opposed with the largest fleet that Japan |
would find herself physically able to build, and
Great Britain being bound matter Of course to
keep pace with both. So, assuming that our theory
of Anglo American cooperation is well grounded,
it does to that naval position, against
Japan has been improved rather than weakened,
and we have the great advantage in the reduction
of our naval program and all that that hnan-
cially and otherwise"
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