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Show PARLEY OUTCOME IS NQWAPPARENT MINOR DETAILS ALONE REMAIN TO BE WORKED OUT; RESULT RE-SULT CALLED U. S. VICTORY 3ltterness Between France and Eng. land Growing Intense As Sessions Ses-sions Progress; Japan Well Pleased With Conference Washington The conference of Washington is practically over. All ihat remains to be done is minor and iespite present superficial quarrels and bickerings, the results could be written today. These results will be: 1. The limitation of naval construction, construc-tion, plus measurably scrapping the existing ex-isting units. 2. The postponement and not impossibly impos-sibly the prevention of an American-lapanese American-lapanese war. 3. The acceptance on the part of each country of a set of abstract principles prin-ciples in the far east without any form ol guarantee for their application. 4. In some way, not yet quite clear, the elimination of the Anglo-Japanese illiance. The price of the first achievement Is the surrender, by the United States of the power placed in Its hands by the last war to become the supreme naval country of the world. The price of the second result will be the recognition of the special rights and interests of Japan In all of the far aast, but particularly In Manchuria, such recognition duly testified to by the surrender on the part of Great Brit-lin Brit-lin and the United States of that nav-U nav-U power which would permit successful success-ful challenge. The price which the United States tvill receive In return for the accept-lnce accept-lnce of the third point will be a Japanese Ja-panese agreement to retire from Shantung Shan-tung and from Siberia. The disappearance disappear-ance of the Anglo-Japanese alliance ill be the compensation that Mr. Hughes will receive for not pressing the far eastern question as it had been ;xpected it would be pressed in the beginning. These results will be regarded in the United States as a great victory for Ur. Hughes and for American diplomacy jn the continent of diplomacy. On the continent of Europe the Washington conference has already been hailed as i victory for British diplomacy even more completed and far-reaching than ihat of the Paris conference. In Great Britain there will be a tendency tend-ency to depreciate British achievement and regret that no greater curb has neen placed on Japan, no serious effort aiade to reduce Frenci arms, and fln-illy fln-illy no closer association between the United States and Great Britain actually ac-tually arranged. Nevertheless, the British people will rejoice in the escape es-cape from a naval competition with the United States, which they could Jot afford, or from a voluntary surrender surren-der of sea supremacy to which they could not reconcile themselves. Not improbably the Washington conference con-ference will be instantly attacked by nany so-called liberals the world over is offering no relief for existing afflictions af-flictions of the world and representing 10 forward step toward International issociation or toward the league of nations. na-tions. On the other hand there will be a ;eneral disposition in this country and England to accept Mr. Hughes estimate ind regard the Washington conference is a first step in the direction of in-:ernational in-:ernational understanding. Mr. Ilugh-is' Ilugh-is' conception that the way to begin .vas begin, and that the limitation of naval armaments was the one specific ind definite thing which could be done las prevailed, has made the conference ivhat it has been, and the ultimate success or failure will depend on .vhelher, as Mr. Hughes believes, the present session proves a beginning or in isolated incident. One further consequence of the iVashington conference is likely to be he final dissolution of Anglo-French :ies. The bitterness here between the :wo nations has been more acute than s generally known. M. Briand and sir. Balfour, for example, have never .'ailed upon each other or met except n the accident of the conference or in social occasion. French support of :he American thesis in the matter of submarines has aroused a British resentment re-sentment which is likely to disclose tself in a startling faction after the-conference. |