Evening star., 1937-10-16
j. s. To ATTEND
FAR EAST PAR[EY
NIne-Power Treaty Confer.
ence Group to Be Headed
by Davis.

The United States formally accepted
today an invitation to participate IL
the nine-power treaty conference ovel
the Far Eastern crisis at Brussels or
October 80 and designated Norman
H. Davis to head the Government.
delegation.
Secretary Hull, in announcing the
acceptance few minutes after the
Belgian Ambassador had delivered the
formal invitation, said the delegation
probably will sail the middle of mex
week.
| Other members of the American
delegation were announced by Hull
as follows:
DR.. Stanley Tornbeck, special po.
litical adviser to the Secretary o1
State on Far Eastern affairs.
j. Pierrepont Moffet,. chief of the
State Departments European division
Robert T. Pell, an attache of the
European division, and Charles E
Bohlen, also attached to the European
division.
Hornbeck and Moffet Advisers.
Hornbeck and Moffet will act as ad.
visers to Davis in the conference pro-
ceedings. Pell will accompany the
delegation as press officer and Bohlen
will act as secretary.
The general expectation was that
the delegation will sail from New York
on the United States liner Washington
next Wednesday.
Count Robert Van der Straten-P Pom
tEoz, the Belgian Ambassador to WASH
ington, delivered the invitation to Sec
retary Hull.
This Governments intention to ac-
cept, carrying out President Roosevelt's
pledge of cooperation with other ma
tions to restore peace in the Orient
already had been announced.
Probably Sail October 20.
State Department officials indicated
that the American delegation will sail
on the United States liner Washington
from New York on October 20.
Peace by agreement" between China
and Japan stood out as the primary
objective of the United States at the
conference.
This policy, outlined yesterday by
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park
N. Y. will form the basis of instruc-
tions to the American delegation.
The President indicated plainly the
United States intends to propose that
the conference attempt to mediate the
Sino-Japanese conflict by seeking an
agreement between them to end hostil-
tiles and to strive for a peaceable ad-
justment Of their difficulties.
Presumably, such a move will have
the support of other powers at the
conference. In suggesting the parley
the League of Nations recommended
that the nine-power treaty signatories
seek solution of the crisis "by agree.
ment" before examining other posi-.
bilities."
Subject Of Speculation.
How the two billigerents-and
especially Japan-will regard such &C.
ton by the conference, however, was
| a subject OF wide speculation.
The japanese government is repre-.
sented unofdcially as being unwilling
to countenance any outside "interfer.
ence" in the conflict. There even IL
doubt whether Toxic will participate
in the conference.
China will send representatives, but
informed observers say it is not likely
to approve any substantial concessions
to Japan as the price of a possible con-
ciliatory settlement.
These factors prompted much con.
lecture here on what further steps the
United States and the other confer.
ence members might be prepared te
sponsor should mediation efforts fail
The President, declining to ventur.
any prediction, said significantly thai
1t was sheer guesswork for any one te
try to say now what Americas policy
would be in the future