The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-08
CRAVE EVENTS
 OVER IN EUROPE
Germany Breaking Peace Treaty Terms and France, Feeling Cannot Wait on Great Britain and United
 States, Goes It Alone.

Washington, April 4-Events are now transpiring In Europe which may prove of the gravest consequences to the old world and serve to sever en- tirely the bond of cooperation here tofore promised by the United States.
 Germany has fractured article after article of the peace treaty, and France, protesting to despair of help from Great Britain and the United States, is pursuing a go-it-alone pol icy which threatens, if persisted in, to bring about situation where Pres ident Wilson may find it advisable either to withdraw all American troops from police work in Germany, announce decision to withhold the treaty from the United States Sen ate, or both.
 There is growing conviction in the minds of government officials that France is going ahead now to accom- plish those military objectives in Ger many which she was counselled against seeking by the other allied spokesmen at the peace conference. The sudden outburst of the press, al- ways inspired in France, that the country has been left by Great Brit ain and America to bear her burdens alone and must, therefore, act as she sees best for her own safety, are held here to be barrage behind which the Millerand government is bent upon carrying out the original wishes of Marshal Foch.
 In other words, government officials are inclined to regard present devel- opments as bringing realization to President Wilson's recent warning" that the old militarism of France has reawakened and has successfully re- asserted it's power over the nation.
 President Wilson last week said he saw. no reason why Germany should not use her own troops in suppressing the reported outbreaks in the Ruhr district Premier Millerand, however, warned Germany to do no such thing. When Germany went ahead and did so, Millerand further warned that if the Ebert troops were not immediate ly withdrawn "the consequences" might ensue. This was regarded here as tantamount to an actual threat of possible resumption of hostilities.
 It is felt here that if there occurred an armed clash between Frame d Germany over Germany's violati IS | f the treaty articles, President Wilson would be forced to withdraw Ameri- can troops from the scene. There are now approximately 15,000 such troops doing police work in Germany, for the most part at Coblenz. Public senti- ment, as conceived by officials here, is such that the American people, weary of the pickering of the allied nations over the terms of peace, would not countenance sending American sol diers into an outbreak between the French and Germans. And, in addi- tion, the United States senate having failed to ratify the treaty, the Ameri- can government is not bound by any of the provisions of the document.
 Of course, no one knows what the President may decide to do as a result of the serious situation in which the Germans and French are becoming in- volved.
 In view of the Senate's failure to act on the treaty, however, President Wilson's influence in Europe naturally is not great. Testimony of this is giv- en in the French policy ignoring him entirely in their present course.