Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-29

FUTURE is VIEWED
WITH APPREHENSION
f There is a Single FrenChman
Who Hopes for a Permanent
Peace His Voice Has Not
Yet Been Heard,
BY Lincoln Eyre.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York WorldO
Especial Cable DispatchD

Especial Cable Dispatch)
Paris, June 2S.-Even while signing
in relief over the advent of the peace
SO long and eagerly awaited, France
views with unconcealed apprehension
the future framed by a treaW which
nobody applauds and many condemn.
From widely divergent standpoints
her conservatives and radicals alike
find the terms that Germany signed
even though she prctosses to con-
slider their complete fuIfillment an inn
ssibility-fraught with inconsistent
cies and perils the burden of which
will bear chiefly upon their hard
hit country.
THE peace of today will be peace
of vigilance" explains the Paris Midi,
in a sentence that eptomizos the anX-.
iety animating all schools Of thought.
Thinks League Is mpotcnt.
To liberal minds, among which may
oe classed those who adhere to So
cialistic intellectualism, the WILSON,
ian principles have been sacrificed
to settlement thickly sown with
unremitting effor can the discords
due to the treaty be smoothed over,
the men holding these views believe,
through the instrumentality of the
league of nations, whose feebleness
amounts almost to impotence, they
assert.
on the other hand, the body of
ln
wished to crush Germany and keep
methods of Imperialism, applied
through sheer militaristic force, sees
in the allies commitments no oppor-
tunity to accomplish this end In
conservative eyes, France remains in
adequately protected from a fresh on
slaught which only the most far
sighted vigilance and the most sleep
less surveillance of her ancient and
still powerful enemy will enable her
to escape.
II Can't Maintain Order.
To the best OF my belief, the whole
thinking population of the republic
is divided into the two categories
defined above. with the exception of
the most extreme reds" who stig-
Matte the treaty as "a capttalistic
outrage" without a single redeeming
feature. but who, in reality, are de-
lighted with it simply because they
hope its obvious rmperfecttons VIII
serve to promote a world revolution
along the Rolshevik lines which they
50 frankly favor
If there is a single Frenchman who
thinks the peace of Versailles is go
ing to give Europe tranquility and
maintain durable order, his voice has
not been heard above the tumult OF
denunciatory criticism.
In the anxious moments of sus-
pense preceding a definite "ye5' or
mo" from Wemar, France suffered
rude jolt by the sinking Of the Ger
man warships in Scapa Flow The
Paris press betrayed an inclination,
natural enough in view of Great
Britains advocacy of the destruction
of these vessels, to chide the British
admiralty for its failure to avert an
occurrence which the French regard
as a catastrophe.
Angered by Sinking Of Ships.
"The most elementary watchfulness
would have sufficed to prevent such
disaster" lie Journal affirms resent-
fully in an editorial headed Grave
Responsibilities.
Pertinax and other conservative
writer's point to the German soldiers
"treachery" as another instance Of
the allies unpardonable stupidity in
placing any trust whatever in Ger
mans or Germany. 1t is q striking
evidence, they contend, of the risks
the victors would run in taking the
Germans into the league OF nations
before their atonement and reforma-
ton has been completely accom-
plished
Big business" in France is GER
tain to regard Judge Sankey's pro-
posal for the naturalization of Brit
ish mines as another blow from
across the channel. Newspaper COM
ment is lacking as yet, but there can
be no doubt that the socialists will
make good use of Justice Sankey's
report, coming as il does at time
when the mining industry is shaken
by strikes and is particularly sus-
ceptibIe to any impulse calculated to
lessen the power of capital,
With all these matters spinning
about in the public mind the French
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