New Britain herald., 1926-08-18
American Secretary of State, Speaking at MacDonough Monu-
 rnent Unveiling, Says U. 5. "Wants Results"
Will Refuse However, to Permit Any Other Ma tion to Supervise Limi- tations Here-Must Rely on Good Faith.

Plattsburg. N. T.. Aug. 1S.-The
 Washington government wants re-
 suits in the shape of progressive
 international agreements to limit
 and ultimately reduce armaments.
 particularly naval ornaments, Sec.
 retary Kellogg said here today in an
 address chiefly devoted to a review Of American policy in connection with the Geneva preliminary arms i limitation conference.
 | He denied categorically that the Washington administration contem-
 plates withdrawal from the Geneva
 discussion. On the contrary. he said. the government was working and would continue to work for the
 success of that effort to clear the road for actual steps to cut down
 military burdens.
 The occasion of the address was the unveiling of monument here to Commodore Thomas Macdonough, who led American naval forces on the great lakes to victory in the war of 1912. The battle, Mir. Kei- logg said, indicated the friendship between the two great branches Of the Anglo-Saxon race which has en- dured over hundred years.
 Tt is inconceivable," he said, that anything can bring these na- tions again into the conflict of war;
 Mir. Kellogg's review of American policy at Geneva was presented after a stay of several days at the summer White House at Paul Smiths in conference with President Coolidge on foreign relations. He declared the time to be opportune to summarize what the American delegation at Geneva had been try ing to accomplish. He began this summary by saying that the United States had mo selfish interests to serve" at Geneva.
 Would Remove Fear
 We have advocated the desira- bility of starting with regional agreements which would strike at the root of the problem by remov- ing from a nation the fear of ag- gression from its immediate neigh bors," he said in discussing the American view on land armaments. By progressing from modest be- ginnings we are more likely 10 go forward than if all nations wait un- til some universally applicable scheme (of arms reduction) Is for mulated.
 Tt seems almost an impossible task to draw up any plan which would be acceptable to all nations Nor is this essential to progress.
 Tt is difficult to see the relation of the land ornaments of the Far East 10 those of western Europe or Of such ornaments in Europe to those of North and South America. Thus it seems an unnecessary as well as futile task to attempt to devise an all-embracing formula for the reduction of the armies of the world. If we must delay all action until conditions are every where ideal we would have to aban- don hope of any arms limitation for something to come"
 U. S. Army Very Small
 The American army is so small. MT. Kellogg said. that 1t never had been deterrent to other powers on either side of the world who de- sired to reduce or limit their own forces. Because of this, he added, interest was less immedi- ate at Geneva in the land armaments question, although its participation In limitation of naval armaments was more direct.
 Here Gin naval armaments) 1t is obvious that regional agreements cannot be so effectively employed" he continued. Tt is rather the task of the principal naval powers of the world to take the lead in the en- deavor to find means 10 do away with future competition in naval construction.
 T reiterate that the United States would be glad to cooperate with other naval powers in extending the principles of the Washington treaty to other classes of naval vessels, and
 earnestly hope that such meas- ure may soon be practicable. And let me say here that what we desire Is results. We are now working to make the Geneva meeting a success insofar as our contribution to the work can make 1t so. and we hope hat progress towards naval limita- ions as we'll as toward limitation Of and armament will result from .hese discussions"
 The secretary referred to the in- Heated desire of certain of the powers at Geneva" to lump land, sea and air ornaments together as an inseparable whole" on the -heory that reduction in any one branch much be contingent upon in the other two. While he United States recognized "a cer- ain interdependence" of this kind n some cases, he said. it felt that every effort should be made to simplify and not to complicate" the imitation problem. and believed the success of the Washington confer ference was due to the fact that 1t had "seelcted and attacked con- crete problems and worked out an
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