Great Falls tribune., 1921-02-20
APPEALS MADE
To JUsSERAN|D
PROVE FUTILE
Impossible to Secure
Inside Information on
President-E.lect.
Anxiety Is Weighing
Heavily on Members Of
Paris Official Circle.
BY LINCOLN EYRE.
n. Y. World-Great Falls Tribune Gable.
Copyright 1921 by The Press Publishing
Co (The New York Worldly

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Paris, Feb. 19.-Anxiety over tho
attitude that will be assumed to-
ward the allies, and particularly to-
ward France, by the Harding admin
istration is weighing heavily on
French official circles these days. Il
is generally recognized that upon Mr..
Harding's foreign policy will depend.
to a critical degree the recovery OF
the French nation from the "agoniea
of war''-and nobody in Paris has
the slightest idea what. even In its
broadest outlines, that policy will be.
Repeated appeals have been cabled
to Ambassador |Jusserand BY the
French foreign office requesting him
to seek inside information" az To-
the possible position OF the new ad-
ministration in respect to such press
ing questions as the Versailles treaty
and its numerous financial and po-
litical concomitants, including the
allied indebtedness to the United
States. Hitherto Ambassador Jusse-
rand has been able to give his gov
ernment only the most vague reports
based on little more than rumor con-
cerning President elect Harding'o
views on these matters.
Hard to Forecast.
"There has never been an incoming
administration whose international
policy was harder to forecast" .
high official Of the foreign ministry
told me despairinxly the other day.
/ learned, however, that although
France has virtually abandoned hope
of getting a correct and comprehen.
sive idea before March 4 Of what Mr..
Harding means to do, Premier BRAND
is resolved that the president-elec
shall be fully advised Of the French
governments aspirations AZ regards
American collaboration In the domain
of restoring peace and prosperity.
Premier BRAND il now searching the
best means Of bringing the views Of
France officially to Mr.. Harding's
knowledge.
Obviously this cannot be done
it would be q violation of diplomatic
tied to the present American admin
istration to establish official contact
with its successor at this time. The
same objection applies to any exist
ing medium Of communication be-
tween the two governments, such as,
for instance, the reparatious COM
May Send Al Esvoy.
Consequently. NJ BRAND 10 con-
sidering the possibility Of sending an,
envoy who, although lacking Mplo-
matte status, would be fully en-
powered to present the French gov
ernmental case to the preaident-elect.
There appears to be no reason why
the French premier should not, II ho
sees fit exchange views with any
private citizen in America in this
extra diplomatic fashion, SO long a.
nothing occurs to affect the relations
existing between the Wilson admin
istration and the French foreign
ministry.
Should lack of time or other eon-,
siderations render the dispatch Of
ent, it may b that the French pre-
Of Sir Auckland Geddes- although
doubtless in more discreet fashion-
and address the American people, In,
cluding Mr.. Harding. BY means q q
frank and comprehensive statemEue
to the American newspaperA HlfA-5
erto the premier, In the bEief inter-:
views he has had with the Americas
has refused to dis-
russ in any except the most general
terms the future relations bstwem
France and America.
Ralatioas o. poopIe.
Between the United States md
France" NJ Millet writes, ''the rela-
ions OF the chancelleries are insuffi-
aent. There must b relations Of
people to people"
Ambassador Jusssrand's laudabls
'stional program, Y. III i1,.s anea tind. s'ee. pr.
He points ont that that
Program may remain q dead letter Il
America refuses to accept il 40 secur-
ty for credits to the entente. He de.
.lares that Americans must bs shown
low difficult will be the task Of re-
ltoring European stability IL Washing
on rejects the Versailles treaty and
he League. Of Nations.
Approved BY Allies.
He adds that the amendments to
he pact and the reservations on the
reaty proposed by the United States
doubtless viii be approved BY tho
lilies.
L'Homme Libre, Clemenceau's old
,aper. under tho headline rs France
ioing to Suffer From Anglo-Amer-
an. Rivalry" discusses another
'hass Of the same problem. Taking
IS q text the bill introduced in tho
ale Of guns and ammunition to Por-
ugal, it observes that this il due to
'ortugal's ''kindnssss IN permit&ing
he United States to establish naySl
ase ut Punta Deleada n the Asorea
nd has the offAct Of th1aafanine