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Show TAX BUROEM IS I TOO HEM, SAYS I FORMER E1IM I t Henry White Tells House Naval Committee World Is Staggering WANTS AGREEMENT TO LIMIT WARSHIP PROGRAM Former President Taft Expresses Ex-presses Hope of Plan to Limit Armament j WASHINGTON Jan. 21. Stagger-ing Stagger-ing burdens of taxation resulting from the world war have caused the peo-pies peo-pies of nil nations to favor a world 'agreement on disarmament, Henry I White, former ambassador to France, 'and a member of the American peacs Commission to Paris, declared today before the house naval committee J which Is holding hearings on this sub-Meet. sub-Meet. iaaaV I think the world fs crying for H some agreement." said Mr White, "but H I do not favor the United States be- H ing the only nation to disarm." H The Fnlted States he added, should take the Initiative In the disarmament H movement and the conference should H be held in this country. Any gain- H ertng looking to general disarmament H should include France and Italy as H well as the United States. Great Brit-Bin Brit-Bin and Japan, the former ambassa- J dor said, but discussions looking to a J reduction of naval building only should H be limited, for the present at least, to Great Britain. Japan and the I'm- H ted States. H DANGER OF BOLSHEVISM. "Would not general disarmament H open the way to Bolsh vlsm through- J out Europe?" he was asked. J "I think Franco might feci that way." eald the witness. "The keeping of Germany In a state of chaos over H reparations is opening the way to Bol- H Ishevism more than any other facto J right now In my opinion the condi- H tlon' In Germany makes Bolshevism H a I 1FI GIVES EEWS. HAMILTON. Bermuda. Jan. 21. Former President William 11. Taft, H vvho Is spending a month here, said H in un Interview that "the enormous burden of debt of every country makes it almost indispensable that the ueces-Slty ueces-Slty for armament be removed. You only do that by joint uctlon and joint agreements and by promises of settling all differences without fight- They are already discussing serl- ously in the United States an agree- ment for disarmament or tho limiting of armament and strangely enough this comes In part at least, from men who have been, vigorously opposed to any league at all," he continued "I am very hopeful that under Mr. Harding we shall reach a conclusion with other leading nations for an as- soclatton or league which shall max! the advance brought about bv the war toward reasonable machinery for tho avoidance of future conflicts. This will involve the sitting around the council table of all Important nations aid will Imply the taking of joint measures to compose differences and to restrain a resort to the unsatlsfac- tory and bloody arbitrament of war. 1 1 1 1 ING TO BRITAIN "Lately I have often been ques-I ques-I Honed as to tbe attitude of the United I States toward Great Britain. Of leourse. the United States consists of some 110,000,000 people sltb many different currents of thought permeat-I permeat-I Ing tho muss. Many different group- lugs too; will be found and there aro some of these groups, more vocal than J I representative of real public opinion 'who manifest bitter feeling again! I Britain. But. when an Important UU'-snoil HI IOCS, nucii u , ttt io.-.v Cornea before us. then the sober pubkv opinion of the United Stales asserts 'itself. M i E BR CONC1 R i n "1 never have had the slightest con- corn over the relations of the two countries. Wo form the strongest union for peucc between nations that exists in the world today. We have got Into the habit of settling all our differences by means of negotiation and arbitration. The great body of the people In the United States can- not conceive of a war botwen the two i countries becuuso they are confident i that any matters In dispute can and will be settled cither by negotiation or l by tbe Judgment of s court ns with people in any domestic Jurisdiction where law and order prevail." Speaking of business conditions in the United States, he suld they were not alarnilieff. "Wo are a very resili- cut people and can fight our way out." he. said, "Congress Is attempting to help In tho matter of credits." I OO BBBBBI |