New Britain herald., 1929-10-24
NONE DARE OPPOSE
 AMERICA, ENGLAND
Expect Coming Fiye-PoWer Na- val Conference to Be Success

Washington Oct 24.-It is true of course that MT. Hoover and MT. Macdonald did not spend their hours together cooking up an Anglo-A alliance.
 It is also presumably true that no selfish nationalistc thoughts ever entered the head of either of them. That is, there was no thought that the United States or Great Britain would profit from this epochal meeting out of proportion to the benefits availab to all other nations which cared to enter into the spirit of the thing.
 It might also be emphasized that the world has seldom seen d man at the head of any govern ment who appeared to be so sin cerely concerned with the we'll being of all mankind as the labor ite prime minister of Great Brit States with such a broad vision of the benefits of worldwide coop eration and the stupidity of inter- national hatreds and suspicious.
 They Are Idealists
 In other words, here were two statesmen who coordinated their patriotism with a certain amount of idealstic internationalism and found that these two abstract fac tors were not incompatible.
 
 Nevertheless, if there are other nations which fail to fall in line with the United States and Great Britain it is going to be just too bad-for them. Naturally enough, the naval arms conference at Geneva blew up when these two predominant naval partners failed to approach an agreement. The same thing would have been true had France and Italy been repre- scented, which they were not.
 But if the United States and Great Britain are going to lead off an international parade for re- auctions of armaments and world peace, any lesser nations which stand on the curb and stick out their tongues are likely to be out of luck. There are few places where their attitude would be popular and, most importantly of all. it would be distinctly unpop- ular with Uncle Sam and John Bull, both of whose people are en- thusiastic over this new order of things.
 For there is no getting around the fact that America, and Britain are far and away the two most powerful nations on the earth. If they did care to form an alliance in the old sense they could easily enough dominate the world with out fear of any combination of nations which might be formed against them.
 And it can hardly be said that the moral alliance which these two have established and which is not in any way exclusive or in any way ominous, would be any the less effective in it's way if the important countries of continent tai Europe were to refuse to play ball. The fact is that France, Italy or Japan could not well af- ford to toss a monkey-wrench into the Hoover Macdonald mech anism.
 Since Macdonald arrived in this country some distinctly sour notes have been sounded in France Also some in Italy and even @ few in Japan. There are those in each country who scent an alli- ance.
 These doubts and suspicious are not likely to stand in the way for very long, Both the Ameri- can and British governments will devote themselves to removing them. One excellent reason for the virtual certainty that the other three nations will fall la line-and from an ld-fashoncd point of view a most important one-is that each one stands pretty well alone under the pres ent scheme of things.
 Both France and Italy are put ting up a terrific holler about the proposal to abolish submarines. Everyone knew they would if it were made. Hoover and MacDon- aid knew it, too. The immediate assumption in Washington was that the two men had decided that submarines would make good trading point with France and Italy, though many may question the wisdom of such q step.
 The Conference Will Succeed
 Submarines will not be allowed to wreck the five-power confer ence three months hence and Hoover and Macdonald did not decide to ram the measure down anyone's throat.
 Nothing in this dispatch or from any other source should lead anyone to believe that the King dom y of Heaven has arrived on earth. Time may undo the work that Hoover and Macdonald are doing. There are bound to be some bitter rows over naval strength before the five powers are through. The freedom of the seas issue will have to be threshed out sooner or later The debt issue is far from dead. Hoover's hope of naval reduction probably will not be realized immediately.
 The main point is, however, that there is going to be five power naval conference which America and Britain will enter with a constructive program and 1t will not be allowed to fail.
 STIMSON OPPOSES PLAN