Show u f NA Vf RfD 4 MOLDS INTEREST INTERESTS t j S I W WASHINGTON T. June 21 AP Ar- Ar The 1 progress lr gr ss t t. t Prime Minister Macdonald M cd and nd Ambassador sa oi- oi Dawes in d their discussion of or the naval nava naval question in Engl England nd has brought brough that outstanding problem o of intern inter inter- n sharply to 10 th the front front- frontin fl nt in in Washington overshadowing overshadow overshadoW- t ing even the speculation over the contemplated visit here o 0 of the head bead o e British government nt Added to the apparent agreement n Macdonald and Dawes has come as a develop development nt regarded in hI n informed circles here as highly significant lt the tho official communication comm tion from Premier of Ja Japan Japan pan through gh the American m BV sv at Tokio placing cing his government on on oi record as as ready to support 1 measures looking to reduction of naval armaments v Receipt ot of this communication ton at tho state department was immediately imme imme- followed by a conference between Se Secretary StimSon and the British ambassador Sir 11 Esme Howard How How- Howard ard regarding th the discussions in England and the e latter called caned af afterwards af- af on Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee PARTICIPANTS SILENT I None of the p participants in these conferences es m made de a statement disclosing disclosing disclosing dis dis- closing what W was s said beyond letting let let- ting it b be known that the naval question vas was discussed but it was clear cleor to many observers that th the treaty for the renunciation of f war had been definitely as a a. a national policy by the United States tates as the cornerstone of future sea ea arm armament m qt discussions While the treaty has not yet come Into full force lacking the tho adherenCe adherence ence once of Japan one of the fifteen original signatory powers it ha has hag heen considered by high American officials for some time to be a logS logical logical log log- S ical Icat basis for negotiations for re reduction reI re- re I of armaments The value of ot the tho pact in this r re- re t was was first stressed by Ambassador Ambassador Ambas Ambas- t ador Gibson in his speech before S the recen rece 1 meeting of the league of nations preparatory disarmament 1 commission and President Hoover referred to the treaty as meaning lat fat at once once- an abandonment of the aggressive us use of ot arms by every signatory nation and a sincere declaration that all aU armament hereafter hereafter here here- after shall be used only for faa de do- This was was followed by the speech of f Ambassador Dawes in London Tuesday when he lie closely linked the question of disarmament with that nations nation's renunciation of ot war var varas as a national policy under the Kellogg Kellogg Kellogg Kel Kel- logg log treaty PROBLEM SHELVED S Those usually close lose to the situation situation situation situa situa- tion now regard the linking link link- ing ng of the disarmament question with the problem of freedom of the theseas theseas theseas' theseas seas seas seas' as having been definitely shelved for the present at least in n favor of ot a settlement first of at t naval a al reductions So so o far as the discussions on freedom freedom free free- dom cloin of the seas are concerned there are re man many persons persons including S Senator Sena Senad ma tor Borah Borab who have felt that this question should be pe settled before the disarmament problem The Tho h turn from froni that viewpoint is accounted for by one prominent diplomat wh who has has' closely followed the discussions in England with the question Why renounce war on the one nand hand and immediately establish rules iules for the tho conduct of the next war ivar Th The present attitude of both Great Britain and the United States is is interpreted in both and dip circles as intended to bring thE tho question of naval navall parity to to a settlement and thus automatically settle the question of freedom of the seas Any ny pronouncement on the question o of ot free freedom lom of th the seas ft it is believed could be made iri In subsequent naval treaties or by PubU public declaration n- n II |