New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-13
Hope Voiced in London
That Alliance Will Be
Saved at Conference
of Premiers Sunday
King Stays Home
TO Await Verdict
Only Hope Seen in Com
promisein Which France
Must Yield Generously
By Arthur S. Draper

Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE King re-
mains in town; the Premier has post
poned his departure for vacation;
Parliament will reassemble Monday.
These three facts indicate the impor-
lance which the British attach to the
French decision to recognize and help
General Wrangel.. Great interest is
taken in the armistice negotiations at
Minsk between the Poles and Boil
sheviki, but no more than that sur
rounding diplomatic exchanges between
London and Paris. Hope is expressed
that the Anglo-French alliance will be
saved at conferences between Premiers
Lloyd George and Millerand at Bou-
logne on Sunday.
!! Statesmen are trying to use the soft
pedal to-day, but there is no mistaking
the fact that the Quai d'Orsay has
produced a most unhappy feeling at
Whitehall. In some quarters there is
an inclination to believe that the
French were encouraged to break with
the British over Russia because of the
support which they were able to find
in President Wilson's note to the
Italian Foreign Secretary.
There is not likely to b. any mincing
of words when the Premiers meet face
to face at Boulogne, for each believes
the other broke the agreement reached
at Hythe.
Reconciliation Possible
L.
Russia is reached there must be ma
tcrial compromise, and the French will
be forced to 60 more than half way,
for the British are determined to con-
tinue the policy outlined by the Pre-
mier in Parliament Tuesday.
This break is profoundly more i'm
portant than the situation in the early
spring which arose over the occupa-
ton of the Ruhr Valley by the French.
A reconciliation was arranged then,
and it is still possible that the present
breach will be repaired.
News from the battlefront shows
that the Bolshcvik progress is slower,
with the Red army about sixteen miles
on the action of the Bolsheviki. If
they oyerrun Poland and enforce an
unjust peace the British and French
will be united again. If the Bolsheviki,
in their professions to the British,
keep their word, the French must
make their plans as they deem wisest
Actually the situation is not quite
SO simple, for Lloyd George will have
no easy task getting a mandate to
pursue the moderate policy he outlined
to Parliament.
Labor Against France
The Labor party, which had been
concentrating its fire on Poland, is now
turning against the French. Not only
the Labor but the Liberal and some
Conservative papers are criticiZing the
French. Thus "The Liberal Star"
says:
eve should make it clear to the
Soviet government and to France that
we have no part or lot in this 'recogni-
ton and replenishing of General
Wrangel; that we admit that Soviet
Russia cannot tolerate the continuance
CT such hostile force on it's flank, and
that we will supply no men, money or
munitions to it."
A long editorial in the Liberal "West-
minister Gazette" reviewing the situa-
ton, contains this statement:
French decide to back General Wran-
gel they must wish the Poles not to
make peace. The French note builds
high hopes on military successes and
the growing strength of the govern
ment of General Wrangel.'"
"The Evening Standard" which is
strongly Conservative, says: "The
British people have endeavored with
politeness and restraint to make France
understand their sentiments. They
have been most ready to support France
in all claims against Germany. They
have with conspicuous generosity post
poned and reduced their own claims in
consideration for their ally. They
have been willing to guarantee to the
utmost Of their ability settlement on
which France assuredly has not exer-
cised a minor influence.
"But at one point they won't be
dragged into indefinite commitments.
They won't submit to involvement in
further war unless it is vital to their
own interests or imperative as an obli-
cation of honor"
"The Evening News" Northcliffe's
comment.
Saws tn Conservative "Globe":
'sIf the announcement is accurate, it
blows sky high any prospect of collab-
Grafton by France in peaceful settle
ment with the Soviet government. The
British Premier and the British Cabi-
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