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Show OBSTACLE TO WORLD: PEACE SOON TO ! BE REIVED ! j Senator Borah Says Great! Britain Coming to Permit ! Freedom of Seas j BY L. C. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent. , WASHINGTON. Keb. 1 1. The gre.it - j est obstacle to world peace short ly I will he removed, .Senator Borah de- j clared today. j. This obstacle is Great Britain's re- fusal to agree to freedom of the seas. Borah based his prediction on Ixn-doii Ixn-doii reports that Bir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador, is returning to America to suggest a disarmament conference. This. Borah said In nn exclusive interview in-terview with the I'nited Press, means a change in the British position on freedom of the seas. Should Britain revise Its views, prospects pros-pects of real progress toward disarmament disarm-ament will be tremendously lncreaeed, Horah Heel a red. IS ENCOURAGING. 'The news from London that th j ttrftiah ambasnador itt rt'turninR with authority to urpe or aprree to a conference con-ference for disarmament is, in one respect, most encouraging.' Horah J said. "One of the fundamental prin j ripals laid down by President Wilson : when-h -went tn Versrrltten for world t peace wa,i the eMablishment of free- dom of the pe.ia. It will he recalled he declared 'the freedom of the seas Is the aine qua non of peae and cooperation. co-operation. The premier of Great Brit-Bin Brit-Bin wholly rejected this proposition and declined even to have the peace confidence consider it. "This refuital was the first step toward to-ward breaking down the whole plan , for anything like real world peace or 1 worlddfsarmament at Versailles. j "As the Italian historian Kerrero has said in regard to this matter 'the ro- j suit was that the law of the ocean ' remain just what it wan before th war barbarous, ambiguous, subject to the caprice of the strongest. FIRST REAL STEP. j "it is now to be presumed, there- i fore, that if (Ireat Britain really is in favor of effectual Disarmament, it is prepared to change its position on the question of freedom of the seas. That . is the first real step toward effectual -and permanent peace and world dis- 1 armament. When the British ambus- ' satior or the government of .;re;it i Britain announce that this policy wiM ' be acceptable to them, we will be far on the road to disarmament, we will I be in sight of relit-f from the ever- increasing and crushing burdens of I war in time of peace." j Turning to Japan, Borah said: "The situation now is that J.ipan j also Is fast coming around to f;ivor a , conference between the I'nited States, j Great Britain and Japan, with a view i to reducing, armaments." ! |