Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-12
JAPANESE REJECT
i. S. COMPROMISE,
DEMANDING 7OPCT.
Impasse With France Is Seen
as StimSon Refuses Con-
SuItive Pact Plea.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News Copyright, 1880.

By Cable TO The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1880.
LONDON, England, March H.
Retire Wakatsuki, chief of the Japanese
delegation at the London Naval Con-
ference, saw Secretary of State Henry
L. Stimson today and told him, accord
ing to reliable reports, that Japan was
unable to accept the American compro-
mise proposals advanced by Senator
David A. Reed IN conversations with
Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo MatSu-
daira.
Wakatsuki explained that the ia
panese admiralty refused to abate IN
any respect Japan's 70 per cent claim
and Japan's insistence on $4,000 tons
of submarines.
The atmosphere of the Japanese dele
CATION has been decidedly pessimistic
during the last 4S hours, and at no
moment has The Stars correspondent
been able to verify from japanese
sources the easy optimism with which
the American delegates have hitherto
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French Claim at Bottom.
II is believed that the Japanese have
been informed Of the tonnage increases
which the British admiralty proposes 20
make In case the French refuse TO re-
duce their figures. These tonnage IN
creaSes, forcing Japan also to DO ADJ.
tional building, are extremely diStastefuI
to the japanese, as Is also the ioea OF
q horsepower agreement with Great
Britain and the United States, but with
out France.
bers of the British Parliament, prtnci-
pally of the Independent Labor party,
will tomorrow present Prime Minister
Macdonald with a petition urging real
naval reduction and the conclusion OF
an agreement, without too much insist
ence by Great Britain on the two-poWer
standard.
Political Phase is Ended.
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's
public statement that the United States
cannot accept even a pact to confer IN
would be morally bound to help France
II France Is attacked, with Great
Britains nat refusal Of the French
Mediterranean pact proposal, has. 1t L.
considered, ended the political phase Of
the conference.
Aristide BRAND, French foreign min
lister, will make public statement OF
Frances views tonight, and Will return
to Paris, presumably for good.
It is widely believed here that the
Stimson statement was made more or
less on Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
donald's request. The British Labor
government did not desire to accept the
sole onus of rejecting all pact proposals
whatsoever,
Action Puzzles Observers.
Some are puzzled by the Stimson
statement. If pact to confer would
bind us morally to aid France against
possible aggression, why was the Sec
rotary of State favorable to such pact
three weeks ago? And If pact to con-
fer would obligate us morally 70 AID
France why does not the four-power
Pacific pact to confer, under the treaty
of Washington, obligate us morally TO
aid Japan?
Yet the American Senate ratified the
four-power Pacific pact on the express
declaration of our Government that we
were not so obligated. Why should the
United States be obligated in one case
and not In the other?
OF these secrets and mysteries no ex-
PLANTATION is available.
The possibility Of reducing the French
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