THE CONFERENCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 13 August 1921, Page 8

THE CONFERENCE.

AT Wf.SHIHGTON. MR HARDING’S iNVITATIQ , Per Pi v>■ s Ask Delation —Copyq

WAS HI? i /TON, Au gust The text Mr Harding s ii tion ready;--“The Frc? .deut 3 deeply | tied at the cordial response u suggestion that tar re should contercncc on tho subject of [imitation of augments in nexion with which the Pacifc the Far Eas’-- i q can be discussed. Productive labm staggering ur.der economic Ira which are tee hoe/y to be n unless the pr*xont vast public penditures aro greatly reduced. ls idle to antitipi.to stability, assurance of uocial justice, and curity of p< -C’Y, while the wai ■productive outlays deprive hi of its just regard, and defeat Bonable expectations of progre “Enormous dwOiirsenients and rivalnr ,n armaments, i testly constitute too greater of the of enteq The nations propensity tor d not onh without economic just tion, but is . constant menaa the world’s rather thu of it' preservation. 1 do not expect a halt to thcreasing out-ay. unless the era largely ocw. erred find a i factory bas*B . agreement re ing limitation. The time is lieved to be oppaitune for the, ere to approach the subjejet di ly at a confer and while question 01 naval a first p’.u.o m the discui other arm amen i j will not bo eluded, it may also be found visable to CifHD.sC proposals »1 by, in the inv cf humanity agencies 01 w— lar? may be trolled. “It is the Girnent »vish of United 6tai ob that through m terchange of •. h?wb at a confei it may be pofis.b’o to find a tion of the Fn.uic and Far E* problems v, h.. *i . j of unquesti importance at time. Sud common ;:ndtWt.tXid.ng reap# the matters wbaih have been are of inteixaLcnal concern, be of service m promoting an during fnendetup among our pies. It is not the purpose of United btatfß to attempt to d the scope of too discussion on Facitic and , East, but to 1 it to the exchanges of opinion tore conference, th expectation the spirit of fnendakip will go the final deciEicn PRESIDENT'S INVITATIOS “The President therefore i« Britain to tho > onference at H ington on Novcmtor 11.” Identical notan were sent to D Italy and Japan.