New Britain herald., 1926-04-21
SECRETARY or STATE TELLS THE WORLD

lHb AsSOCldleu lTcsS was Hlohl NlI- usual for Secretary Kellogg. It Is matter of common Knowledge that there has been more secrecy in Washington bureaus and de- partments than In previous admin latratons and members Of tho press have repeatedly complained of the unnecessary rigidity of what in many cases amounts to censorship at the source of public information. In striking contrast to this was the outstanding method of our secretary of state in telling the Associated Press and the world eX- actly where the administration stood on some of tho most impor- tant international questions of the period. True, he did not yield startlngly ntw information. or news which had not been discount ed In advance as government poli- cies but he elaborated his views in a manner that shed much light upon the details of these questions.
 Of most importance at this mo- ment, perhaps, was his declaration that the objections to the Lausanne treaty were negative" and that the United States could not deal in negatives in such an Issue. Ex- actly what not dealing in negatives means is not clear, especially with the campaign against the League of Nations and the World Court still fresh in the public mind; but at any rate we have 1t from the secretary that the United States in- tends to abide by this treaty with Turkey and that the administra- ton will continue to press for It's ratification by the Senate. It will be remembered that a number of Protestant Episcopal bishops ob- tected to ratification of this treaty recently, and that shortly there- after one of the prominent bishops withdrew his name from the round robin on the score that he had been under q misapprehension re- garding the document. Perhaps others are under similar misap- prehension, one judges from the remarks of the secretary of state.
 The attitude of the United States toward further disarmament was succinctly given and should do much to make clear our attitude toward this international question. So far as we are concerned, wc have fulfilled the 5-5-3 plan to the ! letter, and have voluntarily re-
 
 l duced our army to the minimum ! without an agreement with other nations. IL is the attempt to in l cludc other naval vessels besides l capital ships in the disarmament provisions that will occupy the q; { tention of Americans at the pro liminary armament conference at Geneva. Submarines and cruisers are particularly meant in this con nection; and airplanGs likewise are being considered in the limitation l scheme. So far as land armamcn;3 i are concerned, it is known that the 1 United States would like 10 help bring about a definite limitation Of armies in Europe, not because we look upon them with dtstrust so l far as we ourselves are concerned. but for the economic benefits Of those people themselves, and also the better to enable them to pay their war debts.
 In spite of the civil war up hcavals in China, the tariff confer cncc and eAtra-terrtoriality com mission are still sitting in PeEing and arc making progress toward carrying out the mandates dictated by the Washington conference of 1921. Evidently these commissions are the only things in China that are operating in the even tenor of their ways just now. Ultimately there should be some results in line with modern conceptions of the rights of q sovereign state, such as China, and when these reforms go into effect some of the chief causes
 of the constant reVolts will auto
 matically he removed.