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Show THE SALT LAKE TRiBUNE, S'?NDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 192. ARMS PARLEY FUTILE WITHOUT BRITISH AND U. S. CONCESSIONS France Will Never Submit to Reduction of Army Unless Protection Is Guaranteed by Saxons. By FRANK H. EIMONDS. WASHINGTON. May A Speaking ts New Toric tea days ago, President Coolidg. reopened the 'familiar discussion of disarmament with a ten tatlve proposal tor a new conference to deal with the question of aircraft, submarines and land armament. Alown words though the president's were carefully chosen and did no more than suggest that such a conference could be called only when the pending question of reparations had been definitely disposed of, this speech was in the quite generally interpreted United States and Great Britain aa forecasting a relatively prompt world assembly. By contrast the same speech created marked apprehension end even provoked some unfavorable criticism on the continent, both in Peris and in ail the other capital v of countries which not only maintain considerable military establishments, but also feel that they are unable to reduce these until such time as the dangers against which they are guarding have been materially reduced. CONTRASTING VIEWPOINTS. We are, then, back at the point of departure of all the debates which, since the war, and even before the war, have raged over the subject of reduction, limitation and even aboil tion of military establishments- And once more the clash Is outlined between the two opposing views, those n of the countries, whose frontiers do not march with dangerous neighbors and who, aa a consequence, enjoy security, and those other letsa fortunate countries who have neigh-borwhom recent events have demonstrated to be and to have been dangerous If we in the United States are to understand the situation which must confront any such conference as President Coolldge hat forecast, ex actly the situation which did oonfront the Washington conference and made it possible at that time to deal with the phaaea of armament wtych tbs - Anglo-Saxo- We Ship To Afl Points hi Utah. Idaho & Nevada president referred to la his recent speech, it is patent that we shall have to begin by analysing the ooatmastsl European point of view. There is an American point of view,, which la fairly generally held, that j Europe, speaking broadly, differs from America in that It is fundamilitaristic. There seems to mentally be in this country of ours a fairly considerable body of opinion holding that moat European people moreover that the French. Polish and Rumanian peoples in particular, have soma curious and almost inexplicable fondness for militarism as expressed in terms of standing armies, of military service and of relatively enormous military expenses Now. ail things oonmdeired. this American view is rather bitterly recontinental jected by practically every country. IWeel sure, judging from my own experience In recent end past visits in Prance, for instance, that the very great majority of French men and women would affirm without any qualification, that they would welcome wholeheartedly any opportunity to release tnetr eons from enforced military service and reduce their tax bills by the amount which could be saved by the adoption of (he American or even the British military sys- tem. with it very small number, of voldlera. 18 East . Broadway Wrights Broadway The Good Maxwell Rioted For Its Linen Dresses $395 Hugged Strength Linen dresses: that you have expected to sell at $5.95. Styled Perhaps the most notable feature of the good Max- e like the sketch graceful models; cool linen colors- - Some embellished with drawn work with embroidery. Selling begins today one-piec- , j ELIMINATE DANGERS FIRST. The Frenchmen, like every other aontlnantal European. would eev. In eubstenoe, tint hie reduction of hie mihtery strength, whloh. In the French cue, has been expraesed In the reduction by juet hK, from three years to one end a half, of the period of eervtoe of the conscript with the odor a. will be automatically extended precisely as the dangers against which he 1 insuring era themselves reduced. There, after ail. is the fundamental difference between the oontinent.il point of view and the American. The Eurogan says, in all sincerity, that the manner In which to achieve disthe conceivable armament, only method, is to reduce the danger which make armament, necessary He rejects totally unfounded the idea that peace is attainable by the mere reduction of tho size of anqlea Just be holds ridiculous the notion that armies, the site of armies, that is. may be a cause of war. As a consequence, when the Frenchman, or anv other continental European, It approached with a project for reduction of the site of hit armies, he say quite simply: "Very well, suppose I reduce my armv, euppose I reduce my military service from eighteen months to twelve"; this. In tho case of the Frenchman arid! amount to a reduction of tome 100,000 in the cumber with the colors, "and suppose, since that sill weaken me. 1 am then attacked, will you agree In that ease tn come at once to my assistance? Win you give me the Insurance which I now get from mj army. If I accept yoyr advice and reduce that army?" "But, no." say the American, and, within limits, the Englishman. "That is to misunderstand the whole spirit of the proposal. To reduce your army and then take In place a guarantee from ut it, in reshtv, no more than to substitute an tiHanee for an armed fore and we believe that alliances art just much a cause of war at armed forces themselves. Tog mitt the spirit of America; you fail to comprehend American Ideals If you Intimate that alllancet are essential." "Very good," aayt the Frenchman Tiut dont you tee that you can afford to reduce your armies to next tn nothing because you have no neighbors who are actually er potentially a menace? On the other hand, you both maintain navies which are hr in excess Of those of any other country in the morid Thus the British navy is vastiv more with respect of any European feet than my army is, Instance, with respect of, say. the ill vou Italian army. agree to reduce your navy, perhaps both of in proportion as my army is reduced?"' well besides Its econom- ical, $3.95. the SweatersI s. are here $3.95 22. miles to the gallon of gasoline, and that it returns 18,000 miles or more to" a set of tires. Its performance is worthy, of a far higher price. For instance, it accelerates from 5 to 25 miles an hour - Swans Down Pkgs. For. 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Thus the Frenchman, while the Foie, in his turn, says: "Remember that because I had so army, because I was weak, my country was three times partitioned, finally extinguished by three strong military M Brtand, speaking for Franc, aaid states, two of which exist and confrankly that France could not tinue to threaten my existence. Do quit, and would not. reduce her army beyou honestly think that the danger yond what Mi regarded aa the safety which requires you to huge point save aa America and Britain navies in being against ankeep imaginary were prepared to offer France the Infoe is anything like as real as the surance of a guarantee. And neither danger which impends for me, both America nor Britain waa prepared to from Germany and from Russia?" anything. "But if you will only reduce your offer Actually there Is nothing to sugarmies you will abolish the menace con-- , the sine, the Washington there gest the American will probably argue. "It Is the army which excites the fear of ference, nearly three years sgo, tn the has bws tbs smallest change the German and of the Russian. If continental point of view France has, you win- reduce your army he will re- in the meantime, mads military comduce hi and then all will be welL with Belgium, "How do you know" the French- pacts with Poland knd support in cas of men and the Polle will Inevitably re- looking to mutual of the status quo crechallenge any Jt ie true that the treaty of ated ply. by the Paris treaties In other Versailles compels the German to reFrance, Poland and Belgium duce the else of his army, but every- words, if Germany atone knows that he has not complied would act together one of the three. In all tacked any As for the Russian, perhaps' be will would folagree to reduce, but, again, how can probability for she also is one be sure? Let us be quits fair low the same course, with one another. Tou want to have menaced by" any German attempt at armies reduced in the interests of expansion. In the same way, Poland and Ru- world peace; we want armies reduced mania are allied against any Rue- because it will at one time r , and their our taxes and release our sons. vcHslan attack upon either, to numbers are all agreed on the matter of the armies are organised toas the numbers an With eye single desirability of reducing armies. The which them might be .thrown against difference le that you can reduce Rumania Russia. your ermles because you have not by are similarly bound been Invaded in more than a cen- and the Little Entente to act together tury and there te no one to Invade in while vou. We can be Invaded; we have in case of Hungarian attack, haVe an Romania and been, very recently. of Bul- with respect understanding ' 4NEIET UPON PROTECTION rU' "Such being the case, why can't FRANCE IE FIRM. we come to an understanding? Wa the way to obtain a reducNow, will reduce our armies, you will agree in th size of the French army that If any nation shall have reduced tion of Its air fleet, a detail of vital Its armlet in conformity with the gen- or to the British, must patently Interest eral proposal and Is then wantonly he to meet the French point of view, attacked you will come to Its assis- not to It- It is perfectly useignore tance with all your strength If you less to call a conference, world con make that pledge we don t think there . limited conference Is much chsnc. of our being attacked. for w. don't toeliev. Germany. irauidt th. last experience, will want to run French to reduce their army, because the old risk again. Therefor, the risk world has nothing to do with opinion you run is very little, but in any the situation Th sise of the French event w shall be protected. determined by the opinion of Now that. In one form or another, army is long as French opinhas been th. general line of th. debat France, and as now Is that is, It between th. continent of Europe and ion remains whet purpose to atboth America and Gneat Britain ever convinced of German is weak since Mr. Wilson took hla league of tack whenever France will support armaFrench opinion nations proposal to Paris Mr. Wilwhat the rest of the son at the outset held to tbs Ameri- ment no matter This true can point of view that the way to In- world thinks. ever is equally counEuropean sure pesos waa to abolish armies of practically in u which themselves feel of But as th. Paris conference progressed try ' h discovered that h. could occom- - any degree menaced. if Fvnfh JVIIl!. dsbvnT.ra nlisS nothing unless he .made on of f hs two concessions he had alther to opinion cannot by world opin agree that the league of nations argumentsIs.or affected Ion. that by the opinion of nations should be pledged to armed defense of and menacing its members against outside attack, which haveItnoIs awkward true that these equally or against the attack of any member neighbors. tn defiance of pledges, or be had to opinions cannot be modified by coernations continental consent that the United State as cion. Bince the mean war. well as Great Britain, should under- are armed, coercion wouldmore absurd be take speclflo special guarantees of and nothing could than th notion of a war made upon France against Germany. Mr. Wilson rejected th notion of a continental nations br America and of nations with a standing Great Britain to compel disarmament. teagu armv .and police powers. As a conse- Mr Hughes pointed this truth out quence he pad to aocept th alterna- with obvious Justice during th Washtive, which was an ington conference. LLOYD GEORGE FAILED. guarantee of assistance to Franoe In cas of another German attack. But Lloyd George, while he was still when this guarantee was repudiated minister, made a desperate f. bv the United States senate, then the prim fort to meet th situation, particuwhet project fell through, nd th larly at1 th Genoa conference, where French, aa well as all of the other a sens of secontinental states, promptly put aside he sought to establish proposing mutual guarantee all hop of abolishing standing armies curing by that la. treaties bv w nation recognized aa final th 1 I each flintier dividing it from It neigh- universally accepted on the conti- bora But unfortunately this ingenent. nious proposal found little favor on SAXONS. passed bLick th continent because Belgium had At the Washington conference th been blessed with such a guarantee asm old debate wa reopened. Th from her Oetrnan neighbor before Hit British, quit obviously, pressed for and recent memories bulked large. American assistance in bringing about Todav nearly all th debate, beland disarmament. 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Insuring British aid to France in case of German attack. But my recent trip to England convinced me that British willingness to give France any form of guarantee against future German attack bad enormously diminished in recent years and that no such guarantee that ts, no guarantee in the form acceptable to Fhanc. was at present even conceivable, given existing British sentiment. But I felt just as sura, after a similar stay in France, that there waa not the smallest chano that th French would consent to reduce their armies without tome guarantee. CONFERENCE USELESS. What you have, then, is a substantia, even an absolute, deadlock. If the United States should now qall a th conference, like Washington gathering, to discuss land, air and submarine limitations, almost from th first day there would be aa open n and break between th the continental European countries This deadlock would b. absolute unn less the countries were prepared to offer some form of comIn of a guarantee. the shape promise It could not be broken, for example, by any proposal on th part of th United States and Great Britain to give generous term In the matter of debts, nor- could th threat of enforcing existing' terms avail The reason for this Is simple, alNo though frequently overlooked. matter what happens, avery nation in th world will take such steps as make It safe before it consider th question of its debt to other countries. It will argue that in protect. Inc its own existence It It actually protecting the investment of Its creditors. It will under no circumstance even think of abolishing its army and turning the cost Into debt payment because It believes, quite sincerely, that th moment Its armv baa disappeared it would be attacked, and destroyed. Neither Great Britain nor America, not even both in conjunction, them oould exercise any effective pressure upon France and the other continental countries. In th last analysis th single possibility of persuading thpm to reduce their armies would be a successful demonstration of tbs fact that th countries whoso attack they feared were no longer able or anxious to attack. In. reality, French disarmament can only be looked for a German will for peace exists and it Is accurately appraised in Franc and In th other ooun tries adjoining Germany. DEPENDS UPON GERMANY. e It is quit true, aa President indicated, that if the German In good faith, accept the Dawes plan if he put it inter operation, and having put It into operation continue to carry it out, tho European situation will improve, the danger of a German attack upon Franc or upon Poland will diminish. As this reduction of danger takes place it Is certain that Franc, and Poland will reduce their armies. But pu must see that this reduction will always be bleed upon the appraisal of th danger which exists From th .continental European of view, land fores present Anglo-Saxo- Anglo-Saxo- - Oool-idg- something like fir insurance. Tou can persuade th policyholder to reduce the amount of hia insurance certainly, but only In proportion as you can convince him that th risk of fir. is diminished. Tou cannot him by prsuad. arguing that fire insuraaoo is h. posseeedon ofmerely really the main cause of fir. Tou freight yiso persuade him to cancel bis polka ea. provided you gave him aa undertaking to make good hia fir loseie. But what you will succeed tn accomplishing is Convincing him that on your advice and at . his own risk h should cancel the insurance and rely upon your faith that where there is no Insurance there will be no fire. No European can understand the American and quite British point of view in th matter of armament He simply concludes that because both countries are geographically protected against invasion, they have based their moral estimates upon this fact of Immunity. But he becomes fairly opindignant when the erating from assured immunity, invites him to assume grave risks and th. subject of British guarantee to last program for th year at Wasatch refuse. In any measure to share those France, then the question will be yesterday morning not impossibly a now academy Senior orations were risks. delivered by Quite incorrectly, I believe, open again and conference but not unnaturally, he sees in the Washington might resume th Misses Helena Andersen, Laurel where the tost left off. And th cw Elben, Melba Taylor and Phyllis Burdouble maneuver evidence of appallconverton. Mies El Rasmussen ing hypocrisy and rsloot all argu- talnty ofto such ments based upon higher Idealism or sations recognised both to London Godard's "Second Mazurka" andplayed iWrtaThe and remarks Viola Phillips gave a monologue. Miss presidents superior moral standards therefor, serve again to oall AmeriSelections by the stringed orchestra NO TRADE POSSIBLE. can attention to what promisee to concluded th. program.. Ruck, after alt, ts th present stt- - be th most Interesting and important uation . with raspMt of land arma- - summer sine th. war, and also emD'ORSY ' REACHES AGRA. manta. At Wellington two years ago phasise American interest and pasAGRA, India, May I. List! tenant w could bring about an adjustment sable participation. Pllletr D'Orey, French aviator. Hyof naval strengths a limitation of ing from Paris to Tokio, arrived her. (Copyright, IMA by th. MoCIur armaments on the eta because today at 1 BO p. m., having mad. th. Newspaper Syndicate.) Great Britain and th only 1300 kilometers from Krachl, British other sea powers, Japan, were perfectly In toss than seven hours, deIndia, willing to deal with us on terms tbs Arden Society spite foss and torrid heat, Ueuten Japanese provided wa agreed to reant D'Orsy expects to continue bis Gives Closing Program flight to Calcutta sign all power to act offensively In tomorrow. Tbs Asiatio waters; tbs British, provided French aviator today overtook Stuart w abandoned a naval program which B Serial t The Tribes. MacLaran, the British would have given us world supremacy MT. PI --EAR A NT, May I Jam flyer, who has been delayed at on the bhMseaa, because the BritRuggrL president of th. Arden Lit, the northern India town of Parlu beish oould not in their weakened fito was cause of th. of motor trouble. chart Mary society, nancial state compete with ua But today there la no similar trad to be mad with the continental European state. Mr. Wilson found out in Paris what was the price which ,ft 1 th continent demanded for substantial disarmament; that la for complete and unqualified adherence to such a league of nations as he dreamed. H thought the prtoe reasonable: he offered to pay it, but the United States rsfoasd to carry out bis contract. So la duo course did th British. There th hag stood Goal Prodncen, Judge Buildin since; then It standex at thla "moment; after Mr. Cootldg had mad hi New Turk sneeeh th continental comment showed quit dearly that the continental states wee still ready to reduce their Mending armies in return tor an American guarantee of ajwigtann In ease of attack, but that thev wars totally unwilling to reduce their armies on th mere ch.no that this would Insure safety rather than tnvit attack, (bay to run an the risks meantime. Any St the appropriate foreign offices of th continental countries -would I venture to guana, disclose a wirvivsl of this point of view New Modal Heavy Duty Xntern&tion&l Trucks dBStACLEE CONSIDERED. That Is why Ur. Gootldge's prog Have. 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