The Washington herald., 1920-03-04
EUSSIALOOMS
THUMB
[NEUROPE'SPIE
hurchill Winces, Telling
Commons Of Loss of
Archangel Stores.
BITTERNESS IN FRANCE
)ews of Bolshevist Peace
Talk With Border States
Stirs Comment.
|ITTERNESS IN FRANCE
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Public Ledger Service. Special Caofe
Dispatch.)
London, March Russia was
eain conspicuous today at the
buncI tables and in the parlia-
Sents of Europe. winston Churchill,
british Secretary Of War. has ad-
lifted in the Commons that Eng
Ind had still q star Of 3s4 officers
nd 1.69s men in Southern Russia
Pespite Churchill's manifest reiuct-
nee to discuss Russian affairs. the
commons trapped him into further
acknowledgment that the Bolshe-
lists had captured all the British
torres left in Archangel when the
llies withdrew.
From Paris another angle of Rus
Ian affairs was spread over the
ointment by an official announce
hent that a peace conference be-
ween the Bolshevists and the bor-
er states would be dbnvened in
Warsaw tomorrow. Despite the de-
ision of the allied peace council
ONE days ago which led Europe to
Expect recognition of the Moscow
government, there is still evident in
france bitterness because Europe is
n the verge of welcoming the Rus
Ian to its capitals.
Foch's Desires UnfulhlIed.
In Bordeaux President Deschanel
fepeated N. Poincaire's words at the
MARSHAL Foch reception at the
lcademy:
Let US hope the world will never
ave to repent of having only i'm
Perfectly carried out your desires"
What were Foch's desires? The
Marshal wanted the allies to finance
IN army of Poles. Rumanians and
kechs against Russia. Foch would
pave attempted to destroy the ghost
which today still stalks upon the
political stage.
That is ore of innumerable things
heard against Premier Millerand at
home. Had he been unsuccessful in
Bettling the railroad strike the pre-
bictions heard in France some weeks
kgo and repeated recently that his
TAN was imminent might have be-
kome true, but as conditions remain
Tonight Millerand is safe for a while.
Resentful at England.
Still France is resenting the man
her in which England is supposed TO
be dominating the affairs of Eu-
rope. While President Deschanel
kpeaks of a new full security" for
France, Poincare, barthOu AMI
|Briand are watching their opportu-
mites at the psychological moment
perhaps at the time when France
Wishes to put through some special
proposal at the London conference,
there may be a cabinet crisis and
change of ministry as a sort OF
moral evidence that France has her
fre aroused.
Europe Is still full of intrigue and
strikes, and official announcement
|of allied conferences gives no indi-
cation of the great political games
(which are being played behind
closed doors with Germany as a
silent watchful pawn and partner
IThe strategy of nations seems to be
lone in which each nation is trying
Ito gain by individual policies to-
ward Russia and Germany.
Selhshness Plays Part.
Seldshness still pIays an impor-
|tant role in European affairs, al
Though probably much of this could
have been destroyed had America
assumed at the outset the role
which she should and must event
ually take IN world affairs.
On the horizon of Europe eco
|nomic problems are forcing them
selves ahead Of politics, and II
would not be surprising If govern
ments generally were fastening the
settlement of political disputes to
make way for serious discussion OF
economic questions.
In the reports of "booms" in va
rious countries today came a report
for instance, from Krupps that AS
900 are now employed there, thai
being more than half the number
of pre-war employees. and that cash
registers and reapers are to be
manufactured.
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