The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-21
COOPERATION
IS PLEDGE OF
NAVAL ENJOYS
Spokesman to Farley Voice
Note of Harmony in
First Addresses.
CONFIDENCE is VOICED
Limitation Is Continuous
Process, Secretary
StimSon Asserts.
BV United Press

LONDON, Jan. 81. Japan
pledges her free and loyal collab-
Grafton with the other powers in
the conference, and is prepared to
go, in conjunction with them, to
the limit in naval disarmament"
With these words, Reijiro Wakat-
suki, japanese delegate to the five
power naval parley, offered his
country'S bid for harmony and
unity in the disarmament confer
ence which opened today in the
house of lords here.
Other hgihlights of WakatSuki's
opening remarks were:
1T is the unanimous desire of
the Japanese nation that peace
should be lastingly established and
the principle of international CO.
operation be firmly secured and
upheld.
Japans policy of peace has been
demonstrated abundantly at the
conferences at Washington and
Geneva, and in her earnest par
ticipation in the manifold activities
of the League of Nations"
Stimson Asks cooperation
II deem it an suspicious event
that our first meeting at this con-
ference, in which there must be q
spirit of cooperation and under
standing. should take place in the
house of parliament, which has for
Americans, a deep significance as
the cradle OF our jurisprudence and
of our fundamental ideas of human
liberty" said Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson, spokesman for
the United States, in his address at
the plenary session.
II feel it is important" he said,
ito emphasize the fact that we do
not look on this effort toward dis
armament as final. Naval lirnita-
ton is a continuous process. We
regard disarmament as a goal to be
reached by SucceSsI5e S.epS-by fire.
quent revision and improvement.
Human affairs are not static, but are
moving ara, we believe, improving.
Although recognizing what may
we'll seem insuperable difficulties,
when considered from a purely tech
meal viewpoint" confidence in the
success of the naval parley YVES ex-
pressed in the address by Dino
Grand, chief delegate of Italy.
Pays Tribute to Hoover
The Italian spokesman paid trib-
ute in his opening words to Presi-
dent Hoover as that chief executive
of that great country to which the
cause of peace owes much and who
rightly has referred to this confer
ence as the most important of those
which have taken place in late
years.
1.-THE nations will judge us be re-
SUITS" said Grand. "They look to
us to halt that dangerous COMPETE
ton in naval armament, which has
been checked off partially by that
naval holiday obtained at the
Washington conference.
above oil, they hope that this
conference will lead to an agreement
substantially reducing those huge
naval credits which so heavily bur-
den national resources, an agree
ment which will make it possible to
devote to the cause Of peace much
of the vast sums which now are ex-
pended for naval armament"
Tardieu Pleads for Action
Premier Tardieu of France en-
phasized his feeling that failure of
the conference might postpone
world disarmament for an indefinite
period.
1.-THE decisive experiment" in the
attempted organization for world
peace, preparatory to the effort OF
the League of Nations committee on
disarmament, was recalled by the
premier and he declared that further
progress was shown to be impossible
until there has been a preliminary
agreement by the naval powers.
Accordingly" he said, "the Lon
don conference takes its natural
place in the necessary and logical
succession Of events.
THE problem, in its exact terms,
is this: Our success, limited to the
task we are undertaking, will open
the way to success Of the whole ef-
fort toward disarmament"