Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 13 | Only One Conference

1 A 0 1 J 1 S Only One Conference J S HOPE 1 for the ultimate success of the disarmament ment merit conference rises as Great Britain re recedes recedes re- re cedes from the proposal to hold a preliminary meeting m ting A preliminary conference could be nothing more or less than a 3 caucus to determine the course of the sessions which is contrary to th the ideals ideals' of the day dare Just prior to the Paris Paris' conference the world was obsessed with ith the he idea of f op open n diplomacy It was held to be the great need need of of the world for the elimination of strife and ind conflict S While nations agreed on the principle 1 the the actual conference failed to establish the ideala ideal a and d diplomacy became almost as secretive as before People generally feel eel the error of this course course ourse and it should be studiously avoided in the arrangements for th the Washington meeting In discouraging the plan for a preliminary meeting which of necessity would have followed ed the lines o of secretive negotiation a good start has been made S Disarmament cannot come from a cut and dried ried program If It cannot result from trading in caucus If we are to disarm the world the th world itself must resolve to abandon war and if war ar is abandoned nations voluntarily can call stir stir- render the powers to which they now hold tenaciously We cannot arrive at this result by s s sov much tr trading ding in the conference councils because be be- cause cise i s if js spirit prevails the guiding element j i lh ferenc ference will wm be retention of power r ra surrender of pf a force which S f Y desired of nations must r I-e I t J 4 3 undergo the first vi f t must be v made to conform to the spirit of f peoples eve everywhere every ere which is keenly set x against gans the suffering and bloodshed d of conflict I J. J this his spirit prevails in in I I official i quarters q voluntary t ary s surrender r of f militaristic p po ver Jw will ll fy V j T lt hii a tJ v y i li r j V I. I x c ij Jt J it t r i. i I 1 1 J g. g J or i 1 lC 1 es f ti I W WI s r i 5 1 ii e- e Ji j t 1 tT tet rr r.r. nr tJ fHe new W wt way t ty op open 1 and ad a. a th the hope h t that at the ti people p I wIll wIllbe wm lr be f M fully l Y d' d gf lr r ts W i d. d i th Jh m tp to t the the 4 the world t V Jt prom From R J the trie vi viewpoint of f the t people jer 15 is n need for s t t. t since th they ar are tl g l. l agreed gr 4 o oh t the objects pf of the he meeting ti g Disarmament tr Jam ri 1 can can b m made m'de a a a simple simpie proposition or if it c can VJ leso be le beso 50 so involved d that thit new s will beset beset Hie p the e path of the t e world rh The dang dangers ts lie He in f in t the adoption 9 of to too n many any qualified q provisions which h se e J to retain r rather th r. r i Than ihan n the ar arms s of f ft t the w world v