Evening star., 1928-03-27

Can leopard change its spots" or
n wounded bear its disposition? John
Milton who wrote Paradise Lost"
warned an unsophisticated world:
For neither man nor angel can dis
Germ
Hypocrisy. the only evil that walks
Invisible except 10 God alone
Soviet Russia appeals TO the League
of Nations and the Conference on Dis
armament. in session at Geneva, first
for complete and substantially inn1e-
diats disarmament, and. being rebuffed
and exposed in its prepoSterous hypoc-
risy, now substitutes a proposition for
partial and rational reduction OF all
kinds Of armaments By International
agreement
In this parliamentary proceeding the
representative of Russia Is ably sec
onded by Count Won Bcrnstorff one
time Ambassador Of Germany to the
United States, when he was most
adroit In ConSpiring with Mexico for
attack upon the United states prior 20
our entry into the World War. and. his
correspondence being intercepted. he
was completed exposed.
Now Germany is under strict limita-
ton OF arms by reason of the peace
terms Of Versailles She could not
duction OF arms. for whatever might be
that reduction IL would leave Germany
upon q higher ratio to other nations
in arms OF ELL kinds She has no navy
and IS authorized 10 maintain only
100 900 strength Of her army for ma
tional police work She sides witd
Russia. therefore. though herself 81
swords point with that country. in ask
ing that the world disarm. for she has
nothing 70 lose and everything. in
ratio, TO gain,
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The inSincerity of the Soviet bluff
about total disarmament was so COM
p'etelv exposed by Lord Cushendon Cf
England that the Russian was obliged
20 rccede from the original proposal,
but he comes back with a modified plan
1t serves to keep the Soviet pretenSe
ol IA will for peace conSpicuouSly and
impudently In the foreground. while
The disarmed Germany like a muszlcd
mad dog. persists in barking :at0luSiy
10 show its friendly willingness To sub
Stitute q scrap Of paper III place ct a
navy and army,
So overwhelming was the ANALYSIS
ot Russian insincerity made by Lord
CuShcndOn that II appears ludiCrouS 20
read the simultaneous proposition COM
inS from Lord CuShendon'S own gov
crnment at London as 60 a reduction Of
naval power.
Great Britain has written identic
notes 20 the United States. France and
Japan proposing 10 upset the diSarnia-
ment ratio agreed upon at the 1922
Washington conference.-the -S''--AOd
tn agree that IN the future the Sise OF
battlcShipS 20 be built shall NNt eN-
ceed so 900 tons. Great Britain herself
has Just launched two oattleShipS oI
80 00O tons
She proposes that hereafter the size
OF gums ot hattleShips set to be built
shall not exceed 1873 inches. but her
own new battleShipS are armed with Id
inch guns Great Britain'S navy is now
far IN excess of equality With our own
as agreed IN 1922. and ~ order % main.
tain that superiority longer she nov
proposes that the accepted life 0s capt
tai ships shall be- extended from 20 IL
20 wears,
In Great Britain'S move toward re-
ductlnu IN navy power she makes no
offer to scrap hex own great new battle
ships. The Nelson and Rodney. $4,000
tons each Hut when the S-A~S ratio
was agreed upon for capital ships At the
Washington Disarmament Conference
We SUNK many ships 90 bring down our
force. ana that included one almost
ready 90 launch. WAiea had Wst cost
us $50 600 O00 "a eSail2
In the Washington agreement eruis-
erN were not limited specifically, hug q
Was il "gentleman's agreement" that
they. too. should I've kept down ta Ap-
proNimately the same proportion. How
ever, Great Britain took the letter and
not the spirit NJ the bargain. and has
persisted IN building cruisers while The
United states built None tor a decade,
The theme ef this article Is not the
desirahtiitv of strong navy hut the /
undeslrahility Of remAlnlng nationally |
naive In the light Of diplomatic chi |
GanerY,
The monumental eftrontely og the |
Russian Soviet pvapasal tor a w0rld |
disarmament has never been surpassed