El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-27
FRENCHMEN
SUSPICIOUS
OF BRITISH
AMBITIONS
Fear England VIII Weaken
Them to Preserve Bal
ance Of Power.
PARIsIANs MAKE
GRAVE CHARGES
''Self- Determination" Be
ing Used to Further
Empires Game.
b. JOHN LLOYD BsLDERsroN


DARIS. France. March 2I--Erencn
and British relations are extreme
" strained Bitter urelu1lce ana
urfouuded rumcrs are re1e4A-4 l-
Paris and London In private CONVEX
sation the language oL trenclil--
about England and OF EuEllsul-leA
about France knows no bounds
j nv next dispatch win give the Eng
lfsh- standpoint In this one. France
has the floor
Every argument put forWara %
this dispatch Is the reucu view
IL has been urged in the supreme
council. That doesn't say it IS sound
but It is representative
In French opinion there are parts
OF the world where France has vital
Interests. but those Of England are
secondary. In other regions ing
lands interests come first II the
entente is to continue it Isl argued
that England must give way IN any
clash Of views in -Hese countries
where French interests are para
mount, and vice versa II one c44a-
try insists for narrow and selfish
reasons. upon fhWaTtiug the vital in
terests OF the other storm clouds are
bound 70 appear on the horizon
French Interests Ignored
The vital interests OF france are
said 70 have been iuterlered with b.
the British IN many reglols ro- sec
oudary motives. and rhis fact con-
stitutes the grievance telt against
rance stIu fears the revival o.
Germany ana new war therefore
French policy desires 20 push It's
military frontiers % the Rhine 50 as
70 safeguard the west front and 10
create great Poland IN closes
alliance with France. a Poland that
can and VIII fight Germany, as Rus
STA did IN 1914. II Germany tr-es tc
settle her scores with the western
But British and American obiec-
tions have prevented both OF these
plans from being fully carried cut
u is said here that British policy b
based On the view that England made
q mistake IN allowing Germany 90
get too strong after the war OF 1870.
and the same mistake must not De
repeated with France. France must
not get too strong British policy
must hold an even scale between
France and Germany, so that Eng
land may continue 10 hold the ball
ancs Of power in Europe
This French view. which Is strongly
held. that Britain is trying % ~ e1keu
euemy, causes bitter reseut7Iieli
Germany population and her indus
trial organization give her the Qp-
-Qrtunity 20 grow again soon more
powerful than France a long tenn
OK military service Tor professional
soldiers Is permitted in Germany ar
the peace treaty. and this clause was
put forward by the British iu order 90
make possible the abolition Of con-
scription in England Is preventing
coEscription in German
Fear German Army.
But the long service army thus set
up in Germany. military men here
believe. VIII enable Germans 10 rapid
u possess. themselves OF q highly
trained professional force by passiu-
81.
then putting them In q reserve which
can be called up in war Thus With
out violating the provision that she
must not keep more than 100000 o.
100000 men IN her army. Germany
can soon. as she did during the IA
poleQnic period create a new military
machine
Now the French grievance here IS
thls-tlat in dealing with Germany
on her own frontier the vital primary
interests OF France were concerned
but England, with the help OF America
Tor her own secondary purposes. iw-
posed settlements against French
wishes
When. Tor example. the French at
tempted 70 create a Rhine republic
On the way that Roosevelt was said
10 have created the republic 90
Panama the British high commits
sioner az Co1lenz opposed the policT
OF Paris with as much assiduitv as the
either OF the British or the Americans.
in French view, whether France chose
70 set I'd Rhine republic against the
wishes Of the Inhabitants. provided
this move was ~ vital military
necessity, as the French say 30 is
>rokes In French Wheel
ia the east in Poland and Russia
grievance Is substantially the same.
LLOYD George and Wilson. in the In
teresr Of self determination, have put
many spokes In the French wheel.
French vital interests demand that
the province OF Posen go to Poland.
because Posen is only 200 miles from
Berlin and 8 Polish army there world
next war.
But the French and Americans. TO
French disgust. insisted on q plebis-
cite They also forbade France 10
hand over Dantzig to the Poles with
out restrictions, and after America
had practically Withdrawn from thcss
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