Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-06
MENTAL ANARCHY GRIPS
THE WORLD, SAYS TARDlEU
French Statesman Declares
That Secrecy of Arms Con-
ference Has Been Disap-
pointment to People
BY ANDRE TARDIEU,
Former French High Commissioner
to America.

Mental anarchy grips the world. accord
| ing to NJ. Tardieu. No country, seems to
know just where 1t is going, or why. The
United States wants internatio solutions
without going into international agreements.
England is pin-pricking France, forgetting
that after all, England's boundary against
Germany Is the same which separates
| France and the fatherland. The Washing
ton conference, after its open start, is dis
| appointing the people by retiring to &C.
crecy.)
PARIS, Dec. 3.-The world is in
d state Of mental anarchy. Nothing
else can account for the general con
fusion which has engulfed us ALL.
| I wonder If Washington under.
stands the extent of this confusion?
Perhaps there everything may seem
clear, but viewed from this side OF
| the Atlantic, the Notwithstanding
| Westinghouse in maze.
The Washington conference opened
sky; Mr.. Hughes made his remark
able speech.
"This is the new method of di
plOmaCy, we READ.
But three days later Mr.. Balfour
complained of the indiscretion OF
the press and the delegates closed
themselves up in private meetings
as in Paris in 1919. am accusing
no one, but frankly, the public has
been disappointed.
Then came the great discourse by
the French premier, M. BRAND. Yet
one did not have the feeling that M
BRAND said all that he had to say
Nor did one feel that he received
responses that were entirely frank
On top OF this came the false re-
| port of a clash between M. BRAND
and Senator Schanzer, the delegate
| of Italy, with such pleaSantries-
either true, invested or denatured-
on sardine fishing from cruisers and
the use of the submarine in the
study Of flora.
| Symptoms of Distress
With all this going on, the pub
| lie asks itself where it stands. Eu
| rope will not disarm without pre-
else guarantees. America wants nc
entanglements, but America will
not disarm without pacific accord
Such accord is impossible without
| entang1ements with England and
Japan. Is there a way out? No one
! knows.
In Europe we have the Curzon
speech which France finds excess
sively dectrinaire and Italian mani
festatiQns aimed at France. There
lis Germany, which after two years
Of tenacious efforts, has succeeded
at last in organizing her own bank
ruptcy to escape her creditors. There
are the successive journeys Of Hugo
SHINES and Herr Rathenau, OF
London-related perhaps to the
Weisbaden interviews. There is the
French accord in Angora which is
| stimulating a fervid debate between
| the bureaucrats of the Quail d'Orsay
| and the British foreign office. There
are the articles in certain English
and French journals. the excessive
stupidity Of which finds ready echo
in the American press.
All Of these are the symptoms of
the disease which 1 have termed
mental anarchy. We have no di-
recting law, no general agreements,
| no broad lines, no far-seeing eyes,
but we are aimlessly floating about
| with the currents. Show me land
pursuing two or three contradictory
ends, and I will admit that I am
mistaken. But in the present state
sible.
In the United States we have a
noble effort to define an objective
which might bring the Republicans
and Democrats together on q foreign
policy, but the means to the end are
contradictory. International solu-
tions are sought without interna-
tional engagement.
England's laudable desire for an
enduring peace conflicts with her
mercantile activities. Frances i'm
provisations in the Orient conflict
with a policy Of continued vigilance
for the entente cordiale, dictated by
her need Of security and PREPARATIONS.
EngIand's Activity
Would you wish more concrete
examples of contradictions? In mat
ters of capital Importance we have
England ceding Germany's repara-
tons payments last May. After
that it is difficult to understand her
applying her failing energies to the
Kemalist accord. England's objec-
tions to the Angora policy of the
French is puzzling, to say the least.
We all realize that it is necessary
to be firm at times, but why not
be firm on such vital matters as
our dealings with Germany, rather
than on secondary questions such as
Angora?
After all, what England seeks
from her pin-pricks to France at
Tangiers and in Mesopotamia? And
what is gained by forgetting the
grand truth, recalled by Lord Der
by two days ago:
"England's German frontier is the
same as that which separates France
with Germany
One is inclined to quote the old
phrase:
go. my sons, and see what fools
govern the world"
King Edward, VII, and M. Del
casse created the entente cordiale
by agreeing to the simple principle
that France should not hamper
England on the road to India, and
that England should leave France
alone in western Europe, in the
western Mediterranean and in west
ern Africa.
Where are the statesmen capable
of such constructive views today?
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