The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-26
BRITISH DON'T like
SENDING OF SOLDIERS
TO FAR AWAY LAND
BY MARY HENkE

BY MARY HENkE
Nothing the government here has
done since the war closed has been
more unpopular than it's decision to
keep a large body of troops in Meso-
potamia
Everybody knows that England is
anxious about Mesopotamia because it
has lions share in her oil wells, but
people are not worrying about Oil so
much as they are about the fact that
1t is costing 100000 pounds year
to keep troops there, while the gov
eminent is unable to find any more
money to build houses for the over
crowded nation. Hospitals are near
bankruptcy, and taxation has almost
reached the limit Of forbearance.
Sending British troops to war with
Turkey under cover of Greece, is also
bitterly condemned, as an act done
without consulting the nation or par
lament. The troops who were des-
patched to aid the Greek attack were
chiefly men who had seen long SER
vice in France and it is felt that they
have fought long enough for their
country without being sent into war
that will be Of no material benefit to
England
The decision to keep British troops
in Persia to repel the Bolshevists and
Turks is another point for attack. No
one has less decisions concerning his
foreign policy than the Britisher him.
self. He acknowledges that his coun-
try grabbed" most of her foreign
possessions, but if he can help it she
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the abortive effort towards Internal
ionalism, the national instincts seem
to be stronger everywhere than they
were before. France is concerned en-
tirely with her own interests and Eng
land has had enough Of scattering her
troops over the continent. She wants
prices to come down and houses
enough to live in decency, and all
the wars in the world can "go hang.
Lloyd George on Brink
Lloyd Georges position seems truly
precarious. He pleased the nation with
his firm stand toward the Germans at
Spa, but the many things he has done
less pleasing overbalance that. His
action with regard to the middle east
seems absolutely without wisdom
when one considers the tenor of the
people. And everybody Is sick Of the
uncertainty of prices.
They go up and down without rea-
son, and without any effort of regula-
ton on the part Of the government.
Rates and taxes, which every house
holder has to pay along with his rent,
rise with every variation Of the wind.
Tx-service men. too, cherish resent
ment against the premier for failing
to act more towards betterment OF
employment conditions.
Still the little Welshman holds his
place with remarkable tenacity and
firmness. Abused by almost every
newspaper in London, condemned for
a policy or accused of lack Of policy.
he is still greater than any other man
In England: If the government were
broken I know Of no other man who
could fill his place as well. OF all the
statesmen who were involved in the
peace Of Versailles, he alone stands
where he did when the war ended,
Some of his opponents declare that
the handwriting is on the wall. but
then they have been saying that for
a long time.
Anglo-Saxon and Gallo friendship
Is based just now more on ceremony
than substance. Englishmen who have
visited France acknowledge that the
French feel England to have had more
than her share out of the war
Want English Manufactures.
England got the colonies, the Ger,
man fleet and all the desirable nat
ionals are looking her way for man
datories. charge the French. France
is struggling against ravished indus
try, weighty taxes, shattered farm
lands and greatly depleted currency.
Conditions in England are bad enough,
but they personify prosperity to the
Frenchman-and he resents the fact
that the English pound is worth twice
as many francs as it was before the
war There has also been Journals
tic propaganda in Paris against Lloyd
George that has not been without
effect. Civility is all one can expect
in France. declared traveller recently,
and that applies 10 a certain degree
to Americans as we'll as EugiiShmen
The feeling is based No doubt on tn"
same resentment which a poor. har-
rassad debt ridden laborer feels to-
ward a prosperous neighbOr who
souanders his money. The Americans
who go TO France hardly felt the war
End most OF them prOSpered by 1t. The
Englishman does not have as much
money but his attitude Is that OF one
who saved France and the French
army by coming over and doing their
fighting for them. Under the circum-
stances one cannot be surprised that
the French are merely polite to their
guests. II it were any other nation,
one would be surprised over that po-
likeness