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Show THE SALT LAKE TKLBUKE, SUxNDAV JUUlLmu, JUNK 4, 1922. lo the moment, permit the representative of the two nations to see eye to eye. Such being the Case, the Washington conference completely failed to find any ratios compromise and the submarine were scrapped. One might add, parenthetically, that while the capital ship ratio was accepted by the French representatives in Washington it has not been accepted by the French parliament, and when I was In Paris there was every Indication that the French parliament would add a reservation of Its own to the treaty, materially Increasing the French percentage. five-pow- er First Rock Appears. and the 'In a word. Great Britain, United States could reach Japan an agreement becaute they, all wanted approximately same thing, although for quits difMeet the Thirty-fou- r ferent reasons. France and Great Britain could not reach an agreement because they had totally opposing visws. For Ef- this divergence there ares no remedy In a conference where sovereign states sat, nor was there any remedy la public opinto ion, for French public opinion went one way and British the other. That American opinion- coincided with British naturally had not the smallest effect upon the French, who saw their own Interests Conference and stood by them. Consider now. It you please, the Genoa situation. There was no understanding arrived at In advance between Russia on the one side and the western powers the other. There was. Ratif; en a fundamental difference In principle between the communistic idea of property and the capitalistic, to which latter we In common hold. with all the other, By FRANK H. SIMONDS. possible to great powers.- - Unless tt 8311" to Th4 Tribune. find a compromise Genoa was bound to WASHINGTON, June J. Since the end-i- fall in advance, hut no attempt eras made to find out in advance whether there of the Genoa conference there have could be any common ground. been many comparison made, between this meeting in the Italian city and the Tug of War Begins. etill recent Washington conference. All You had, then, Russia and the rest the commentators, both at home and of the world at the opposite poles on tha which underlay all else. If comquestion abroad, have agreed in the fact that mercial and financial relations were to Washington was, measurably at least, a be restored to a normal basis and the success. While Genoa, despite all the Russian Soviet government recognised. But you had something more you had camouflage, was a failure. almost between difference as a But from this point of departure endless the wseteraprofound nations as to the extent to arIn reached and which been should 'conclusions have making comgo they to meet the Russian situation. guments adduced to demonstrate that had promises Britain and Italy, for domestic, the method of Washington been em- Great political and economic reasons, were ployed at Genoa success would have fol- ready to go almost the whole distance; lowed. France ana Belgium were not prepared to Here, of course, the whole case breaks a foot. The rest of Europe, the neudown. It is plain that not even the go tral, states Included, divided In the matWashington method could have saved the ter, while the United States Indorsed the Genoa conference. Indeed, what is rather n view. the case, had there been any real atWhat chance was there, then, of suctempt to apply the Washington method cess at Genoa? What comparison can there would have been no Genoa conbe made between Genoa and ference. One Of the greatest fallacies of actually Washington was a market all the crop that appeared after our own Washington? where three peoples, having someconference was the Idea that a new meth- pises thing to trade and desiring to trade, met od had been found to deal with the oldest and completed their bargain. In advance of international diseases. all three had been Informed of the state of mind of those they were to meet Nat' Sea Supremacy Passed Up. urally there was bound to he haggling three came The success at Washington so far as over the price, but each of the success was attained lay In the exist- to do business on the best terms obtaina difThe fourth France able. having ence of certain facts which were recog-lsestate of mind, declined to buy or At the bottom was the fact that ferent In was thus on and sell available terms the United States had adopted a naval program, which if actually carried out, a Genoa state of mind. would give us the supremacy on the blue water. Great Britain could not af- Interests Opposed. A great effort and perhaps a natural ford to keep pace with us, given the burdens resulting from the war. Japan effort has been made to dramatise the as something had never pretended to keep pace with Washington conference us, but was destined to fall further and unique and epochmarking, with a pefurther behind, since she could not com' culiar moral tang. Of course. It was pete with us. nothing of the sorti It did not promote h We then stood In the prospective po- conciliation, as the dispute sition of the first sea power In the world. clearly showed. What It did do was to Nothing could stop us unless we choice demonstrate that when nations are united of our volition to forego our possibility. by common not even an inBut it was a fact that the American ternational cenference can prevent them people saw no need for so great a navy from striking a bargain, but when and were increasingly hostile to the vast run counter, then an Internaexpenditures which were necessarily re' tional conference only helps to accentuate Thus while Great Britain and these differences. ' 3ulred. had was the every reason to desire that after history of The all, That, there should be a limitation of arma- Hague. It has been the history of all - and without since limitation such must rement, they International conferences,were sure to be outclassed, American main so. Genoa Is only a final evidence public eentlment was opposed to meeting of the folly of holding a conference when the costs of see supremacy. there Is no solid basis for agreement or for bargaining. At Genoa, Russia found Powers Apply. Brakes. nations not united upon the western divided upon The three great sea Bowers, then, bad terms they would offer, butRussia underterms. those Accordingly a common desire to fix a limit to naval did at the conconstruction. There was no rivalry of took, Just as Tallyrand one to group against play a serious sort, no recent recollection of gress of Vienna, aggression. Since we could, Vf we chose, theIn other. down when It broke Genoa end the we other in the sat two, tbs outstrip drivers seat, hut in advance ws were had been clearly shown what might have prepared to reelgn this expensive glory. been ascertained In advance, ofthat there bringing Now, when there had been a series of was no present possibility the rest of Europe into one private exchanges between these three Russia and which to would be acceptable which common disclosed a agreement governments, to The agreement, nothing was more simple all concerned. The adjournment new a for the open way than to call a public conference to put Hague leaves It In writing. trial; hut, as Lloyd George himself has In so far as naval strength was con- said, all possible chance of success Is cerned there was, moreover, at the con conditioned upon a radical change of poference itself only very minor differences sition on the part either of Russia or of of opinion as between the' three sea pow- the nations which stood with France In ers. The Japanese held out for the Mutsu maintaining the view which has been ofend got It, but the ratios were maintained ficially announced again and again a by adding extra tonnage to Britain and the American view. America. A great deal of noise was made over the question, but it was really a States Pull Apart. minor matter. What was of mors moat Genoa, the trouble In The ment was the political question in the Europe difficulty today. Is not a trouble curable Pacific. the application of a new method, or by The Japanese navy was deliberately of the Washington method, which Is one constructed to meet an American policy. of the oldest. It lies in the fact that the More or less definitely we had taken on nations of are divided utterly on Europe the the role of Is a protector of China. We Important question. There had, with one or two notable exceptions, every a British view, a German French insisted upon certain things upon the view, a view, to view. Russian Therefore, continent of Asia and our Insistence of these nations tomeant that one day, if we adhered to bring representatives revelaIs only to Insure a public such principles, we should have to fight gether tion of the extent to which they are separated clashing and conflicting Interby i paring. ests end conceptions of Interest. I must the Englishman says: Today Japan Secs Light. have a navy which, ranks with respect 6 to 1.76; What Great Britain desired was t put of any other European navy as a limit upon sea strength which would that Is. that the other two naval powers leave her equal in strength, rather than of Europe. France and Italy, shall not he outdistanced, as would be the case have a combined strength of more than had we completed our program. What 3.60 as against my 6." The Frenchman I must have an army which will Japan desired was to abolish the menace says: to her of our Increasing naval strength have an effective European strength of But when and our Pacific policy carried. To do at least 6 to the German 3.6. this she had to work for a condition in these two statements have been made, deFrenchman which our fleet would be eliminated as then, quite naturally, the an offensive force in those waters where mands a larger navy, while the Englishshe was vitally interested, namely, In the man insists that tha French shall reduce China seas. their army. At bottom, of course, each What Japan sought in reality was not a sees his danger In a different form; one limitation In the tonnage of capital ships, at sea, the other on land. but s limitation in the area within which She achieved England for Nonaggresslon. our fleet could operate. this end by means of the But the Englishman argues that Francs Pacific treaty, under the terms of which will be safe if she reduces her army, we agree not to add to the fortifications of the Philippines or erect forts on Guam. provided all Europe agrees to sign a non the FrenchIn other words, wre agree to such condl. aggression pact. To which was not safs tlons as make it Impossible for us to man replies that Belgium was she nsutralixed In and 1314, although send our fleet beyond the Hawaiian her neutrality guaranteed by the nation islands. Then the Englishwhich attacked her. man replies that it is a new world and a Pacific Pacified. new Germany and clinches the argument But the United States, as a people, by declaring that if France does not let were unwilling either to pay the costs Of Germany up, Germany will In due course wresting sea supremacy from the British seek revenge. The Frenchman or of supporting a policy In the far east that he cannot see any sign of areplies new which envisaged an inevitable war with world and believes that the German will was So had agreement Japan. easily attack him, even If he does let him up. upon the question of the Pacific. These You see, then, quite plainly that there two sacrifices, the one to the British, Is no use In a conference on the subject the other to Japan, insured the success of disarmament, as the league of nations of the Washington conference. But one commission has Just reported. In the first must note that it was a case of bargain place, because France will not attend pure and simple. such a conference. Ioincare made this So far Washington was a success, be- clear at Boulogne, and Brland fell after cause all three sea powers had purposes Cannes because he had not made It dear; and desires which were easily har- secondly, because If France did attend monized and tended toward a common such a conference her course Is marked out end. That this was the case was careIn advance, as was disclosed during the fully ascertained ' in advance and pre- Washington conference by Brland mempared for. Great Britain, which had al- orable speech. , ready prospectively dropped to the rank of a second power, by virtue of the Washof Oat Compromise Sight. ington agreement retained paper equalThe same thing is true of the reparaity, actual only in tha rase of capital has a vast devasFrame tions problem. ships, because otherwise she far surwhich will cost ten or twelve passes us. Japan, menaced In the far tated area, reconstruct. She has already to east, obtained a guarantee against Amer- billionsseven dollars on tha task. ican Interference, through the pledge we spent does billions of not get thee sums from Germade not to fortify those bases without It she will have to bear the burwhich wo could not operate In Chinese many her people will be fiscally ruined, while or Japanese waters. We got what we den and she wlH go scot-freBut Great wanted, an escape frbm huge expenditure, Germany of 1,000,000 men perfor which there was neither public sup- Britain hasoutupward of who cannot work, find manently port nor any pressing political reason. emplojment until the markets of the conand German the tinent markets primarily Submarines Unmolested. are restored. As long as the reparations When one turns to another phase of figures stand where they do the British Washington, however, one encounters not believe that there will be no restoration No limitation was of tha contlnsntal mykC And it unsuccess, but failure placed upon the submarine, which naval employment thus continues, n tha long experts generally believe Is the weapon run Britain, too, will bo ruined. Thus of the future, for the simple reason that France says "pay' and ths Englishman Bo far no ons has found France refused to accept the ratio fixed says reduce. by the United States and Great Britain snv compromise. 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