New Britain herald., 1930-07-07


 basis of 1O0Sfor the United States it was 134 for Great Britain and 70 for Japan. Under this treaty the United States will on January 1, 1887, possess completed 911,00 tons of these major units. Great Britain 94S,OO0 tons and Japan 556,00O tons.
 Will Have Other Cruisers
 Tn addition, the United States will have one 10000 ton S-inch cruiser tvo-thirds completed. This will give a ratio in these categories of 100 for the United States to 1929 for Great Britain and 605 for Ja- pan. The reason for the excess Brit ish tonnage is again as mentioned above. In other words, the United States. in these categories, increases by 1O2, 900 tons. Great Britain de- creases by 100000 tons and Japan decreases by 1000 tons. These re- adjustments of units are to take place during the next years. The treaty then comes to an end except for such arrangements as may be made then for continuance. xxx , ITO those who seek earnestly and properly for reduction in warships, would point out that as compared with January first of this year. the total aggregate navies of the three powers under this treaty will have been reduced by nearly S00,000 tons. Had a settlement been made at Geneva in 1927 upon the only pro- posal possible at that time, the fleets of the three powers would have been approximately 6So,ooo tons greater than under the treaty now in consideration,
 "The economic burdens and the diversion of taxes from welfare pur- poses which would be imposed upon ourselves and other nations by fall- ure Of this treaty are worth con- sideration. Under its provisions the replacement of battleships required under the Washington arms treaty of 1921 is postponed for six years. The costs Of replacing and main taininc the three scrapped battle ships IS saved. Likewise we make economies in construction and op- eration by the reduction in our sub marine and destroyer fleets to 52.70O and 150.0 tons respectively. What the possible saving over an other wise inevitable era of competitive building would be, no one can es- timate.
 Forget Other Savings
 "The more selfish minded will give little credence to the argument that savings by other parties to the agree ment in the limitation of naval con- struction are of interest to the American people yet the funda- mental economic fact is that if the resources of these other nations are freed for devotion to the welfare of their people and to Pacific purposes Of reproduction commerce, they will result in blessings to the world in cluding ourselves. f We were to ac cept the Geneva conference base as the end of naval strength under competitive building for the three governments, the savings in con- struction and operation by the treaty is literally billions of dollars.
 The question before us now Is not whether We shall have a treaty with either three more 8-inch cruis- CTS or four less 6-inch cruisers, or whether we shall have q larger re- duction in tonnage. It is Tether we shall have this treaty or no treaty. IL is q question as 10 whether we shall move strongly toward limita- ton and reduction in naval arms or whether we shall have no limitation or reduction and shall enter upon a disastrous period of competitive armament
 Marks Important step
 This treaty does mark al i'm portant step in disarmament and in world peace. IL is important for many reasons that t should be dealt with at once. The subject has been under discussion since the Geneva conference three years ago. The lines of this treaty have been known