Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-28

Overwhelming success of the Naval
Treaty in the Senate is credited to pub
lie demands, and in national COM
ment tribute is paid to both President
Hoover and the Democratic leadership
for the nonpartisan character of the
victory. Emphasis is placed upon the
fact that for the first time since the
World War the isolationists in Con-
gress have suffered severe setback
Weeks ago, when plans for the spe-
cial session were first formulated" ac-
cording to the New York Sun, "a care
ful poll of the Senate showed it 80 to
Is in favor of ratification. Counting
Senator's absent, paired and not paired,
the Senate yesterday stood 30 to ID in
favor of ratification. The debate. in
Guiding the unsuccessful demand for
submission OF all State Department
papers bearing on the treaty, apparently
did not change half a dozen votes"
In more critical vein, the Chicago
Daily Tribune holds that the country
could have made greater point of its
own Self-intereSt without diminishing at
all the effect of a sympathetic under
standing of British problems" That
paper adds: THE treaty should be a
silencer for the American internation-
alists and pacifists for the time being
It is the concession to them, and the
mite responsibility to the rest of the
country. 1t is mandatory upon the adj
ministration and Congress to give the
Navy everything permitted in the
treaty. The provisions do not set a
maximum from which the Government
may recede, but minimum which must
be used to the full. That is the act
OF good faith which is required of the
Government.
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Credit to both parties in action and
debate is given by the San Francisco
Chronicle and the New Orleans Times
Picayune. The Syracuse Herald sees "a
reflection of the popular will and tenn
per, while the Savannah Morning News
believes that the one-Sidedness of the
decision indicates to Europe and Asia
that the United States wants to do
what can be done among the nations
toward preventing miltaristic racing
af1oat and is anxious to go as far as the
nations can toward reaching agree
ments on even the most delicate sub
jects."
The overwhelming manner in which
1t was ratified by a vote of So to 8
should have a heartening effect upon
world craftsmanship" declares the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin recognizes the
PRESIDENT purpose IN view OF the eS-
sential need, as he saw it, for the es-
Enlistment of the all-important asset
of good will for the United States among
the nations"
"a distinct milestone in the long and
sometimes tortuous pathway toward
real world peace is lauded by the
Roanoke World-NeWS, with the state
ment that THE real meat of the Lon
don agreement is that further construc-
ton of cruisers by Great Britain and
Japan is stopped, while the United
States is permitted to continue its crIIis-
er program until it reaches the allowed
limits of eighteen 8-inch-gun ships and
eighteen 6-inch-gun ships"
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1.-The unfavorable popular reaction to
tactics which were exhibited in the
regular session probably had much in
combination to reject the treaty at the
ming News. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
and the Waterloo Tribune contend that
the fate of the pact was not in doubt
for a long time. The Scranton Times
thinks 1t will strike the average citizen
as just little bit ludicrQus that such
a small fraction of the membership of
the Senate could hold up vote for
such long period" The Rock Island
Argus condemns "puerile objections
while the Indianapolis Star concludes
that "the vast majority of Americans
took no stock in much of the buncombe
that Is paraded every time question of
international relations is before Con-