New Britain herald., 1925-03-26
BORAH ID HELP IN
 ARMAMENT FARLEY
But Thinks Land Forces Also
 Should Be Fixed

Washington, March 26.-In a talk with President Coolidge yesterday afternoon, Senator Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations com mittee expressed approval of the movement inauguratcd by the presi- dent to hold another international conference on naval armament lim- itation..
 Mir. Borah, who Is in a position to wield much influence in the senate should new treaty on limitation be agreed to, indicated a purpose to CO., operate with the executive.
 While the details of what passed were not disclosed Senator Borah said he had discussed disarmament with the president and had told him he believed he was on the right road in seeking a conference. Mir. Borah said nothing could be gained except by trial.
 Borah Would Include Russia.
 Senator Borah has long advocated an economic and disarmament con- ference and he still Is of the opinion that such a meeting would be the most effective way to solve the trou- bles of Europe and the rest of the world. But he does not intend for that reason to discourage the presi- dents plan for a naval conference. Mir. Borah is apprehensive lest ts>s attitude of France in opposition to land disarmament. without security pact, will make 1t difficult for an- other conference to be brought about. He expressed this view to hte president and pointed out that if France stood out insistently against land disarmament, Great Britain probably would be unwilling to take any further steps toward naval dis armament.
 But while Senator Borah sees diff faculties in the way of arranging a conference he advised the president to go ahead with the preliminaries of sounding the powers. He feels that the more world sentiment can be stirred up for disarmament the more likely the movement for a reduction will succeed It is his opinion, too ! that Russia should be included in the conference.
 Early Fall Favored as Time.
 No time has been tentatively se- 1 lected for the conference. However 1t is understood President Coolidge would like to have it early in the fall. This will depend, however, or how long a time os needed to ar range the preliminaries, Much may l depend on the present exchanges ir Europe with respect to a new secur- l fly pact. Senator Borah was asked whether the conference would be in Washington.
 T assume it will be held in Wash ington," he said. T do not believe the atmosphere'of Europe is the best place in which to hold such gath ering."
 Senator King, of Utah, who intro. duced the disarmament conference amendment to the naval bill, vii confer with the spresirent this week He approves the calling of confer ence, but believes it should include land armaments.
 Air Limitation an Obstacle. One of the great obstacles is air plane limitation. Admittedly this will be the hardest nut to crack if 1t Is included in the proposed agenda. If the conference were to be on general limitations of armaments airships would not be so much of a stumbling block. Limiting it to a naval armament, however, brings the nations up against difficult prob- lem because airplanes are even more an arm of the land forces than they are of the navy.
 How to limit naval air forces with out any limitation of land air forces , will present an almost impossible problem, in the opinion of American experts.