Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03

The Franco-German treaty, despite Sir
Edward Grey's speech In the house OF
commons, still remains source
ShipS in Of anxiety and this must DC
SO until the treaty has been
CoS. ratified The truth is, Euro
pean politics. chiefly inspired oy asp'ra
tons to territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN
Asia or Africa. may be likened to sn p
of state which have run into an I'M
penetrable fog, their captains, aithousn
capable, not being able to determine pre-
cIsely their respective positions In hau'
teal language, in default Of the sun
light they have been running by oeao
eckon.ng." Sir Edward Grey's speech or
tho 2sth has certainly served to clear the
political sky. out the barometer still
marks bad weather. There are DARK
clouds in the angry public sentiment IN
Germany. France. England and In ber
sium. which may or may not be dispeiieo
on the ratification OF the F'ranco-German
treaty, and which. 1t should be confessed
please neither France nor Germany. to
say nothing of the people Of other coun-
tr1es
1t IS true that the foreign affairs COM
nittee Of the French chamber mas mn,
ished its report on the convention. and
NJ. Maurice Long. the chairman. read the
first part OF It, in which he appealed fol
the prompt ratification without waiting
FOR an unde standing with Spain WITT
reference to the pretensions OF rested
rights by that country While the COM
mittee rejected the proposition to await
Spain's answer on that read, ten mem.
bers refrained from voting. The incident
Is significant and portends opposition In
the chamber
remarks with undisgCised relish on ST.
Edward Grey's statement with regard te
Herr Won ktderlen- Waechter's omissions
The Temps finds that the British min
listers expose was admirable. clear and
oval The Journal des Debats is o; like
opinion, and adds that two lessons are
to De drawn from Sir Edwards state
ment. The first is that France should
not make any further move without act
ing in. concert with England. The sec
ond lesson is that the entente cordfals
md the Russian alliance were the bes
safeguard Of national interests and peace
The German journals. the pangeimanist
and socialist. conjoin In violent criticisms
against the treaty and IN even brutal at
acks Upon the chancellor Herr voi
Kiderlen- Waechter, and the emperor
There promises to be in the reichstag De
rember 6 veritab-e field day when IN,
minister of foreien affairs Is annount et
TO reply to Sir Edward Grey's statement
England mas become the chief target o,
all critics in Germany. and We shall heal
England roundly abused
Criticising She will be accused
r,~,.,a with other things. o.
Gn6iaAo. not Keeping faith with
Germany In the matter of the Delagos
treaty whereby Germany was TO receive
territory in Portuguese West Africa and
in East Africa to the Zambesi.
Notwithstanding the manifest hostilit,
of the German press and public to the
treaty its fate in the reichs,ag is not q
be feared so much as the debate N he
French chamber. The conditions arr
quite dissimilar In Germany 1t is no
what the reichslag wishes but what thu
ministry orders. and Baron Won Beth
mann Ho 'lweg has already made known
tiv. Of the emperor. In France. on thu
contrary the ministry is the servant o
the chamber which represents the people
81, ose will is omnipotent.
That there Is a party in France whicI
vii make itself heard in the French
chamber on the treaty is appar mt from
what NJ Paul Leroy Beaulieu writes II
rEconomiste Francois
Spain" lie says, will possess northern
Morocco. Italy will possess Tripoii
neither Of these two countries has sac.
rificed a parcel of its territory. France
on the Hontrary In order to constitute
herself the unpaid gendarme of the re-
mainder Of Morocco. without more eco
nomical rights than those of the dozel
powers who were represented at Alge.
ciras, is asked by a power which
pretends 70 be .wronged. without being 81
at all to abandon enormous territorie
and dislocate thus her magnificent Afr.'
can empire"
It is NOT possible to deny that such Is
the feeling Of large number Of peopl
in France TO whom alienation OF French
territory is little short Of crime, ant
who. in word. feel that the time ha
come not only to resent the visits to Tan
gier and the dispatch of German shiI
Of war to Agadir. but to resent them, II
necessary. by the army which France
has so laboriously and theoretically pre-
pared for just such provocation.
1t is not at all unlikely that M. Leroy
Beaulieus note will become the keynote
of the opposition to the treaty in TIT
chamber, and ipso facto cause the fall OF
the present ministry!
Nor is NJ. Leroy Beaulieu alone in hi!
opposition to the treaty.
NJ Hanotaux. former minister Of tor.
eien affairs, in an article on the Franco
German Accord in the Revue Hebdoma-
daire writes:
Notwithstanding appearances. the
agreement is not accomplished. 1t is no,
accomplished because he wording de-
stroys it and shows it to be morally and
materially inapplicabe Under these con
ditions ii can give neither satisfact or
nor pacification to the opinions I'm France
or Germany"
The public in France and Germany Is
taking up the subject, with the view OF
negotiating a treaty over
Demanding the heads of their gov
errors. and on this point
A1eaGy' NJ. Hanotaux declares
that prudence inspires it, public In
terests necessitate it. and the two
countries understand 1t. In any event
II should or would be submitted to the
interested governments. The language
of the ex-minister of foreign AFFAIRS Is
perhaps purposely obscure.
After the accord on the subject OF MO-
rocco the diplomats were ready 10 make
anv arrangement on the Kongo. By an
admirable mov emenl Of the people the
entire French nation was on its feet IN
protestation 1t notified the government
Of firm resolve not to pass under the
.Fourches Candines or ''humiliating
yoke"-it would not suffer the humilia-
ton Of abandoning any considerable por-
til IN frh