Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-30
PRESS COMMENTS.
WHAT DOES ENGLAND COUNT ON
DOING?

The French Army has occupied, with
out striking blow, Frankfort, fianan,
Darmstadt etc. This morning. besides,
II will enter Homburg Our pledge taxing
will then be complete. In letter addressed
10 Cermanv's Charge d Affaires, Nj Miller
and has stated our purpose. Our troops
will evacuato territory on which theyy
have lust entered, when Germany Swii'
have subsidized into the order ilxed by
Articles AZ and 13eof the Treaty OF YER
saillcs.
Bv this, it should be understood that
she must have recalled, trst, the sup
Elementary detachments which were
sent into the neutral zone during the last
fe,v davs. and. second. the police detaeh-
ments which have been there during eight
months bv virtue of the accord OF Aug
ust. 1919. which expires the 10th OF April
II is evident that France will not re-
fuse. if the circumstances require 1T, to
enter into an entente Of the sort which
she concluded last summer. but no leeWaS
ought to be left to German encroachment
Everything should be vigorously regulated.
Win the directing forces at Berlin-the
Eberts and the Won Scekts-at length
understand that it will gain them nothing
TO face il out by audaoityp We would re-
plv without hesitation TO this question,
If the Allies had profited by their alliance
10 affirm their real union by acts. I'm
fortunately, it is not yet SO. England $
silence prolongs itself, as well as the sl-
lence of Belgium and of Italy. As long as
this is so, the leaders in the movement
of German revenge will not cease to hope
| for impunity, and even Tor success Tor
enterprises to (Which they are lending them
selves. If they have pushed their soldiers
| into the Ruhr Basin, we may be sure that
| it is because they have counted on an
| Anglo-American veto upon our prepara-
| tons for counter-action.
| We hope that British opinion will mani
| fest itself speedily. The perpetually hesitat-
ing attitude of the London cabinet can
but >push European affairs TO the most
| extreme denouements.
! What does England wish2 As peaceabie
an execution as possible OF the Treaty oi
| Versailles. We share this wish. But. IS
giving the adversary the impression that
1 II il allowable 10 attempt everything
against the treaty which 1t signed less
| than a wear ago, the proper means OF ac-
compishing il? The fine theories OF MIR
| Keynes and OF Mr.. Kerr (this latter tho
| intimate counselor of Mr.. Lloyd George
tend to lead Germany back to her eternal
| illusion. the illusion which IN 1914 per
| haps resulted in precipitating her into
| crime: in the hour of danger we VIII DC
faced by France alone.
Is like reasoning of German minds tho
| reasoning which should prevail TO resolve
difficulties? II may be proper 20 add that
after having experienced, as early as tn'
third month after the signing OF peace
the difficulty of obtaining from her Allie
the support Of the Articles which ar
trulvthc pillars of the new order IN Europe
France must necessarily feel some un
easiness for the future. Trusting to British
and American aid, she renounced man,
guarantees which the victory procuret
Tor her: she signed an accord for the al
ministration Of the Rhenish terrltorie
which keeps them in complete union witt
the German Commonwealth. Can sh'
indefinitely persist in this policy, II u l
her eternal doom to he made TO realiz
her isolation? To declare such resui
unbelievable and impossible, we kno'
that there will be no want Of argument
] on the part uf>Mr. Keynes and his like
We must remind them Of an element a
most absent from their calculations: tn
will to survive, which animates ever
people.
NAV these considerations induce Nj
Iloyd George and his colleagues TO undel
stand that the best way TO make peac
reign on the continent is 10 hold ugldl
TO the written covenants. "Pertinax !
rEcho dc Paris. on April Z, the day.
the occupation of Frankfort and otht
German towns by the French army.