Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-02
FRANCE MAY PLAY
LONE EUROPE HAND
Explanation of Britain Over
Renouncing Incident Call
ed Insufficient.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER.

/ BF taDle 10 Tue star ana I nicaSO DallT News !.
Copyright 1920.
I PARIS, November 2-Britain's eX-
PLANTATION of why, without even con-
sulting France. it renowned the right
tc seize German goods in case Ger
many voluntarily defaulted in the
payment of indemnities is considered
in both official and unofficial circles
as entirely insufficient.
! Although France is protesting dip
Dramatically the episode is so grave
that it seemingly has convinced those
, French leaders who are most de-
! voted to the alliance that Franco
| henceforth has no recourse but to
lpiay lone hand in enforcing what
/ she considers her rights without ask
ling or expecting help from any one
| Must Face Peace Squarely.
! Senator Henry BeranGer gives the
| following expression OF TINS grow
ing sentiment:
| We must face peace squarely. he
said, "just as we faced war. 1t is
now only too clear that the business
temperament is again dominant both
/ in Britain and the United States. Our
allies are applying to diplomacy the
! methods of pure commercial compe-
| tition, and are even aStonlShed that
We are aStoniShed. To imagine that
! by complaints or sermons we can
! reform either the insuiarltY OF the
ore or the Monroeism of the other is
naive We should only hurt thei-
feelings without results. Is it not
better henceforth to resign ourselves
ito being ourselves and ourselves
alone? Let us remain true to inc
main outlines of the wartime al
!liances. which assured a common vic
tory. but let us not be prisoners Of
these alliances any more than our
allies are. Let us act freely and
forcefuny in the sole sense of
Frances rights and interests.
Associated With Belgium.
"Present-day France is associa ted
with Belgium. which is not neg!igl-
BILE force on the planet. From Ant
! werp to Dakar. from the Rhine to the
4 Niger and the kongo the Franco-Bel-
gians stand for something in the way
of population. armies. organization
| and strength both of resistance ana
seemed terrible in the Pickering
| flames of war. but it remains re-
doubtable in the light of peace
France and Belgium know that their
only useful defense is on the Rhine
Who does not hold Westphalia does
not hold the Rhineland, but who
/ holds the Ruhr basin holds the Reich
| German empire). The Franco-B Belgian
military forces are entirely adequate
| to occupying both banks of the
sary for the common safety of France
and Belgium.
"The French government may fat
ter itself that it has done nothing
since the armiStice to weaken our al
Iiances but on the contrary has done
everything to preserve them. If our
allies themselves think they can take
the liberties with the treaty of which
We have been Informed. after they
have been made, who henceforth
could find fault if we in turn should
seize the cages necessary to the
country's safety. The country's
safety today is concerned in the re-
covery of our credits and respect for
our authority. The policy of inaction
is no longer policy of prudence. For
in such a crisis he who does not act
is acted upon, and he who does not
maneuver is outmaneuvered. And as
between Germany and ourselves, to
make ourselves respected and be
paid, it is simply question of force"