El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-03
LIGHT TAX
ON FRANCE
RESEN
BY J. BULL
Rich Profiteers Impose on
French Ruinous Financial
Policy, Say English.
BRITAIN DESIRES
EUROPE AT WORK
French Schemes to Weak
en- Germany Opposed;
Anglers Britons.

~ JOHN l. HALOEE1LDAa
Z oNDON. Eng. April s.-vsry harsh
things we're said about England
last week in a dispatch tha--
relations In that story retalled
the principal French grievances
against Great Britain Then I came
to London. showed ny story % IN
flusntiai Britons. and asked what
ms week England has the floor.
I,ondsn offIclnlI feel Eenufnely
arrrIeFed that British opposition
70 France nnneEinE the left hank
Of the Rhine, and 70 TIE creation
Of = fnrrer Poland CUT o. Ger
nan and other unwilling popui1-
lions. should be nseribed 70 dia-
ezedifnbls ard narrowly selfish
Brifaia has cone 20 believe that
the continent must stand OF 1al-
together and that reconstruction
work must Be encouraged every
where without regard 70 who are
triends OF enemies
EnrIznd also doea nor want 10
nrree to measures that must
eTenfunIfy provoke wars OF re-
renEe. There has been TOO mueh
~ that already in the peace
treaty. and q Poland vita M
wiling subject naflonrutiea or
u1frlutic Germans rcnlo mean.
IN London view, Inevitable
future lTur.
s7nce ne virtual rrIthdraual OF tie
Unfted States from European affairs
outside the Adriatic5 much Of rsa
modsratlng influence formerly at
tempted By Us ia now exercised By
England
E1rIand a. world Policemen
So long as Britain felt that America
vas looking out Tor the Interests OF
Europe and tho world IS q whole she
simply as q great power ANXIOUS 10
get al she could for herse1s but
now that We have Withdrawn. she
has discovered that some nation
must keep its head and restrain the
others or the whole herd are llzel-
70 rush down very steep place INTO
Earland - alterably opposed to
a Rhine republic, helieV-uE fhnt
confederation Of Germans held In
unwilling bondage under Frene1
military control would Be q lef-
terinE sore. Fer the sane reason
Lloyd George has tried 70 restrain
Poland 20 regions occupied mainly
BY Poles.
Russia IS. OF course. the greatest or
All problems French opinion believes
that England IS trying % dlsmemoer
the Colossus In order 70 prevent RUS
STA from ever menaciuz either -lola
OF the group OF proteclorates or
friendly" states set up o. taken
over By the British in Asia 3linor. the
Caucasus regions and Persia This
view IS repudiated here with indlgua-
ton. and IL IS now felt that Liovl
George made a great mistake IN re-
marking. extamporaneously during
debate IN the house OF commons. tl1-
a powerful Russia had always been
looked upon as s danger 10 the British
empire
Would Not weaken Russia
Most English opinion-I do not say
gultiess Of desiring TO keep
Russia weak and IN chaos. and British
policy in recognizing the indepeu-
dence OF border states IS declared
These states are composed
Of u0nkussiaus who have always
wished 70 be free. and have. more
over. served as barriers against boi-
shevism- IL Is not possible. there
fore. TO desert them even i. as now
seems likely, peace IS made with
Lenin and Trotzky.
Nor Is English friendship to-
wards the bolshevilzs. OF which the
French complain. due to the desire 10
keep Russia forever weak
British inaistence UPON reopen
lnE trade relations. and the undc-
ninhle British drift tnFTrrf~ ~r~~c.
q part and parcel Of the new
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