Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
ST|MSON PREPARES
TO SEE FRENCH AND
ITALIAN DELEGATES
Makes Formal Call on Prime
Minister to Present His
Colleagues.
WANTS UNDERSTANDING
WITH TARDlEU AND GRANDI
Will Meet Them Tomorrow in Eff
fort to Dispel Doubts About
U. S. and Britain.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 18. = The fun
American delegation to the naval dis
armament conference headed by Secre-
tary of State Stimson was received by
Prime Minister Macdonald at No. 10
Downing street during the noon hour
today.
Charles G. Dawes, American Ambas-
sador to Great Britain. who is dele
gate himself, accompanied the party TO
the premier's official residence for their
formal visit. Secretary Stimson had a
three-hour talk with the prime min
lister yesterday.
The meeting developed into some
thing more than a formal call as II
lasted for an hour and quarter, dur
ing which the entire American dele
cation for the first time conferred with
the entire British delegation. arthur
Henderson, British secretary OF State,
and A. v. Alexander, first lord OF the
admiralty. both members of the Brit
tsh naval delegation, remained through
only part of the meeting.
treasured as to the distance Premier
Macdonald proposes to go toward apol-
ishing battleships, Col. Stimson pre-
pared today for his attempt to dlSpel
French and italian suspicious OF an
Anglo-American accord.
viii Visit Delegates.
Tomorrow the American Secretary OF
state will confer with Dino Grand,
Italian foreign minister, and Andre
Tardieu, French premier, in separate
conferences. These are intended more
than anything else to establish the &C
workmanship of Col. Stimson with
the two men on firm foundation,
permitting mutual understanding prior
to opening of the ive-power conference
Tuesday.
Col. Stjmson will tell the two men
probably that America and Great Brit
ain have an ideal in common-that Is
limitation and reduction of the worlds
sea forces. not TO a point where Sc
curly is threatened, but sufncientiy 70
reduce the heavy financial burden mod
ern navies have come to be and 10
remove large navies as a threat OF war:
He will repudiate, possibly tactily and
not in many words, the suggestion
which has been made on the continent
that America and Great Britain have
contracted an entente cordial, the CO.
operative nature of which is threat
to other nations, and that there is any
thing transcending an ordinary 1rlenoly
alliance between them.
Col Stimson will be much more in
terested in conveying this idea to Signor
Grande and M. Tardieu than he Will De
in making an initial effort toward paci-
fying differences outstanding between
their two governments, dtherences IN
which some observers already see a
threat to the projected hve-power naval
accord.
The Italian and French differences
between themselves will come up In the
due course of time at the conference
table. where they will be- threshed out,
regardless, 1t is felt generally, OF any
thing Col. Stirnson might do or say
now; whereas general understanding OF
the true relationship between Great
Britain and America is necessary
premise on which much of the con-
ference negotiations are to be built.
Americans Relieved.
The conference yesterday between
Col Stimson and Mr.. Macdonald was
believed to have relieved the Americans
minds of a misunderstanding as re-
CARDS the premier's attitude toward
battleships.
The version Of Mr.. Macdonald's
statement Wednesday on that score as
radioed to the George washington said
he intended to propose abolition" OF
battleships or capital ships, whereas he
only expressed himself to newspaper
men as hoping for eventual or ulti-
mate abolition of battleships, but ex-
pecting at present to propose length
ening of age limits, or extension of the
building holiday agreed upon at the
Washington conference.
The erroneous Interpretation Of Mr..
Macdonald's statement to the newSpa-
per men greatly concerned Col Slim
son and the other American delegates,
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