To Run Gauntlet in U. S. Senate

Although the Naval Conference, unlike the Anglo-Egyptian Conference, produced an immediate concrete result, its ratification by all three Legislatures (Britain, United States, and Japan, so far as the three-Power portion of the treaty is concerned) is not to be taken for granted. The United States Senate is notori-ously rebellious against certain kinds of Presidential policy, and is particularly suspicious of foreign entanglements, as Woodrow Wilson discovered, and as President Hoover may yet discover. As the President, however, has intimated his intention to submit the three-Power treaty to the Senate “almost immediately,” fresh light on that point may be expected any day. So far, American criticism of the naval limitation seems to have been as much directed against Japan's share of naval strength as against Britain's. And in Japan there are influential patriots who are equally convinced that Japan has been robbed. The full strength of this American-Japanese discontent is not yet apparent.