Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-28

dening crowd one saw Marshal Foch
devoid of any decoration whatever
att red in a distinctly seedy uniform,
talking with quite unexpected ANNA
ton TO a French general. The differ
ence between his SphinX-like attitude
in public and this voluble, gesticulai-
ing individual, his tongue never stop
ping his hands going like windmills.
was arresting. Judging by his ges-
lures and his facile expression one
might speculate that he was denounc-
ing some fool suggestion made per-
haps at the supreme war council
Whatever it was, he finally dismissed
it with a coutemptuous wave Cf the
hand and derisiye curl of the lip as
he rose and walked away to join the
throng.
Many of the women were gowned
or rather ungowned to an extent
showing that they are in the process
of solving the problem set for the
Parisienne represented in one of the
papers yesterday standing disconso-
lately before her mirror musing:
i've cut my dress, I've cut my
corsage, and I've cut my hair, what
else can l cut to be in mode
Styles Are Amazing.
They seem to be cutting the two
former still more drastically. leaving
the impression that one was not at
the embassy but at one of the decol-
lete Paris revues. How their clothes
don't fall right off is a mystery not
given to mere man to unravel.
But amid all this superficial APP
pearance of gayety the real dominant
note on all hands was one of grave
and serious concern over the entire
Cd fyn,
yesterday to accelerate the proceed
ings of the conference are directly
traceable to alarming news from Ger
many. The conference joys along at
its own sweet will until suddenly
some explosive event startles it into
quickening its pace.
The phantom of Bolshevism is real
| lied all at once as assuming tangible
shape, and not SO far away as Rus
STA either. That was the trend of
talk among these diplomatists and
politicians from all counties gath
cred at the British embassy last
night-a gathering that perhaps may
! precede the Waterloo of all ordered
government in Europe. While the
! conference has been debating wheth-
er Germany's infamy did not destroy
| her title to relief in food and work
anarchy has been sowing the seeds
| from which authors hope to reap a
| harvest of universal ruin.
MI Eyes Opened.
Now, at last, the eyes of everybody
Z are opened to the immense danger
that has been encouraged by this pur-
! blind policy, and also incidentally &c
! the fatuous imhecility of attributine
to pro- Germanism the sincere warn
! in Of thnSn uyh ypba &
! happening. The report of the Brit
ish military commission on food and
labor conditions in Germany should
nerve Premier Lloyd George to tel
his Tory majority in parliament al
| least the truth about the situation
| however disappointing it may be tC
their hopes of starving Germany and
| at the same time extracting q colos.
sal indemnity from her.
The same disenchantment is imper.
atively necessary in France and that
actual possibilities be substituted for
dreams. There was something of sar-
donic irony in the spectacle of al
| these diplomatists and politicians last
night displaying profusely generous
tributes to their craftsmanship con.
ferred upon them by their grateful
countries, while the result of thai
statecraft is seen in the hopelessly
! distracted Europe of today, before
which they stand dismayed if not alb.
solutely helpless.
The crucial moment has now by
general admission arrived at which
prejudices, however justified, mus
be waived if the spread of Bolshevisn
is to be stayed and if the genera
safety is to be set above the gratifi
cation Of revenge, well merited as il
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