The sun., 1919-04-04
Believes That Sympathy For
and Fear Of Germany Will
Rob Poilus of Justice.
BRITISH GAINS DEPLORED
French Intimate Ingratitude,
Saying Their Stand Saved
[. s. and Britain.
Special Gable DsspdtcA TO THx srx.

'oVtpNt, lTs' 0N TtDhfs reserved.
PARIS. April 3.-If events in the
Council Of Four continue in the course
they now seem to be taking to the dis
advantage OF France the Americans
may have the choice presented to them
or standing out for every jot and tit
tie of President Wilson'S speeches and
principles or Of losing some of that
warm friendship and gratitude that
the most responsible strata have felt
for America.
1t is useless TO disguise the fact
that to conse ervatiye, thoughtful
frenchmen these days it appears that
the interests OF France are being sac
rificed to President Wilson's idealism
and to fear Of what the Germans will
do when the peace treaty is presented
10 them for signature. The American
commissioners have stea6fastly re-
fused to predict that Germany would
Sign any kind of a treaty presented,
and OF late it has seemed to the French
that the United States attitude has
suggested that they felt sympathy for
the enemy.
This has led some FreDchmen to won-
der why a little more sympathy for
France Is not observable. 1t has been
said many times. but bears repeating,
that France expects above everything
else that the peace treaty will give her
security against future German aggres-
sion and assistance TO recover from the
last stroke.
Recent Events Far From Assuring.
The events OF the last few days, as in
tcrpreted by the moderate French press.
have not been reassuring. These papers
now fear that the Saar Valley will be
denied to France because Il is inhabited
by Germans. They fear also that the
new Polish State. to which France looks
as an eastern counterpoise against Ger
many. will be weakened for the same
reason. Against this they see Great
Britain getting almost exclusive control
OF former German colonies. regardless OF
the fact that they also are inhabited
largely by Germans
that when Or. Helherich said in 1913
that Germanys wealth was 100000
000,0 900. whereas that OF France was
$4,000, 100000, the tendency seems 10
be to pare down French reparation
claims especially as Frances war ex-
pense was 100000. .ooO. 900. or $50 per
cent of her wealth.
Without the French army Great Brit
ain would have been helpless, while in
America It was freely admitted. the
! French say. that the United States
fought really In self-defence and by our
great exploit of transporting an army
overseas proved that the Germans could
have done the same thing westward IL
they hadn't been checked by the French.
French See Germans Put First.
Throughout the war Americans ex-
tolled heroic France. yet now that the
war is over the American Commissioners
seem 10 think less OF France, according
to these Frenchmen. than they do Of
poor Germany.
As a result France views events in the
council with increasing alarm. French
men see Bolshevism spreading In Ger
II any. carrying, as II does, a threat 10
cheat France out OF any peace fruits at
an: yet Americans and British refuse
to take any measures to prevent the
spread westward OF Bolshevism.
With all these things taken together
and combined with the high cost OF liy-
ing and the Socialist discomfort II is not
strange that a feeling of resentment pre-
walls.