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The New York herald., 1921-03-06

London. given the fact that two months Of
delay will insure better roads and better
weather for military operations in Germany.
But granted there may be delay; suppose
that between now and May l. significant
day In all of Europe, France at last decides
to act that Foch receives the word to march.
What will that mean to the world, to the
United States, to a new Administration just
arriving in Washington pledged to restore
prosperity in the United States, now BAN
ished by the consequences of war and in
complete peace?
Without attempting to prophesy one may
see certain things as inevitable. When the
French troops begin to move Germany will
have to resist or submit. But the Govern
ment no longer controls the army. In
Bavaria there is. in fact, military organi-
zation stronger than the army allowed the
German State by the Treaty of Versailles.
No one will pretend that this German mill
tary force is capable of conducting sus-
tained campaign against the French army,
but can 1t escape resisting somewhere? Is
1t not inevitable that among all the old lead
ers from Ludendorff down the line some one
will venture to inspire German soldiers with
sufficlent courage to shoot, in desperation. IL
in no hope of successful resistance?
But resistance, any resistance any armed
encounter, however Insignificant, means war
lated into ordinary language. 1t means a
punitive occupation of Germany from one
end to the other; 1t means the marching
of Polish troops into East Prussia and Upper
Silesia quite certainly as the movement
of French troops into the Rhineland and the
south German States. 1t means total dis
location of the economic situation in all of
the German Empire and in all of the adjoin-
ing States.
Erosion at Work Surely
On European Civilization
The fact to which most men will agree
men whose Judgment in economies in
finance. in commerce is worth listening to-
is that the situation in all of Europe is
economically critical 1t is. at best, touch
and-go whether the whole fabric of the old
life can be saved or will be destroyed. Re
construction has come to a minor degree
but only to a minor degree The injuries
done to the whole structure, to the founda-
tions on which the system of government
and of life in Europe rested have been
undermined, impaired. Salvation is not be-
yond possibility, but it is beyond hope II
there is long protraction Of the present
process Of destruction by erosion or IL there
be an intensiflcation of the process by some
rev tidal wave of war
What am seeking to emphasize here is
that the derman attack upon the world,
while it failed TO win for the German any
such succesA as was sought, while 1t brought
proximate ruin to the German aspirations
and conceptions. came far nearer to wreck
ing the whole world order under which
Europe has lived than was perceived at the
close of the war or has been perceived since
up to very recent moments. The truth is
that despite enormous efforts made since
November II, 1918. 1t has not yet been pos
sible to get the watch to ticking. the ma
chine to running again. Certain wheels have
begun to turn, yes, in certain districts: the
gain has been marvellous; but in others the
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
New War Waged by France Is
Not a Remote Possibility

At Paris, during the Peace Conference
since the Conference one fact has been i'm
mutable, one circumstance has been the sure
foundation Of all reasonable estimates of the
situation. In the last analysis France was
bound, falling any certainty of reparations
falling any reliable guarantees coming from
her allies, to make use of the power that was
in her own hands to provide for her future
security.
The world, and the Anglo world in
particular, has long and quite inexactly be-
lieved that in the end the French would see
things as the English and Americans saw
them, that France would abandon both her
claims for security and for adequate repara-
tons, because both lay outside OF the pos
sibiities as envisaged by our statesmen and
bankers. IL was customary at Paris to hear
American representatives declare that moth
ing could be done until the French became
reasonable which was tantamount to say
ing that the English and the Americans
must wait until the French became as in
telligent as their Anglo-Saxon associates.
What not perceived then, what is
only being tardily and mperfecty appreG-
ated now is that the French are bound,
were bound, will be bound to see things from
French point OF view and that IL France
cannot be assured adequate reparation and
reasonable security by the orderly methods
of alliance and negotiation France. in the
can assure her, not for day or a year, but
for time which may give new generation
Of Frenchmen opportunity to recover from
the wounds and injuries OF the last unpro-
volxed German attack.
At the present moment we hear OF the
quiet Pobilization Of French troops, the
preparations for a new expedition beyond
the Rhine, the occupation OF other German
districts, perhaps the Ruhr, perhaps the
Main Valley, solating Bavaria from Prus-
sia. Paris. Amsterdam. Berlin, London, all
give unmistakable evidences of the expecta-
tion of new military actions provided the
forthcoming Conference fails to achieve
miracle and reconcile two totally rrecon-
ciiabe positions held by two sets OF states
men whose own fate would be sealed by any
concession however insignificant.
Assuming for the moment that the French
military operation does ultimately take
place-that II is almost certain Is common
European iudgment--it may stiil he tenn
porarily averted by some postponement at
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Which Has Declared Itself Politically Free Europe Not So Economically and
Means Collecting Infinite
Here Possibility Another Large France Takes Free Hand

frankly probable, the markets of Europe will
be Theoretically closed TO American products
almost indefinitely. Our billions lent to the
European nations will become even more
shadowy assets than now, the very coun-
tries which are the ultimate security for
their debts to us may themselves be plunged
into that general ruin which would neces-
sarily attend any further serious conflict
To these billions must be added those
other billions which represent private cred
it's, advanced when the Government loans
ceased But beyond those billions, all bill
ions lies the question of the market for
what we have still to dispose of The things
for which Europe clamors, for which meth
eds of expectation might be found, provided
only the European situation should clear.
provided only the nightmare OF political
questions might be abolished once and for
all. A collapse of the whole European mar
ket-and every fraction of the world market
stands or falls together-would have roper
cussions at home which no American can
now afford to overlook.
In my Judgment Europe will still allow
Mr. Harding and his new Secretary of State
certain period Of grace before despair takes
the place of settled reason and the inevitable
consequent chaos follows The truth of the
situation is that America remains, as it has
been from the moment when it at last en-
tered the war, the single bulwark against
collapse in Europe. For many, many months
all Europe, Russia alone excepted, has waited
upon the change in Administration in the
United States, recognizing that from the
Wilson Administration nothing more could
be expected, but hoping that from new
President with a new mandate, real assist
ance might be expected.
But in this time conditions have terribly
worsened. The people of France have
reached the point of desperation which
makes action inevitable once there is plain
evidence that the new American Administra-
tion is either following the Wilson policy
which refused to recognize what the French
regarded as the life and death necessities of
France, has dedicated itself to an ex-
clusively American policy of non-interference
and non-interest.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
DIR. Adolf Mayer Does His Work Behind
Locked Doors Though Officially Recognized

istically German the staff got down to busi-
ness and have now nearly completed the
busting off process throughout the edfice
which during nearly five years was her
metically sealed and whose dark and sombre
exterior seemed to stand for something
haunted and menacing to the passerby.
Reparations Is not such q strange word in
the dictionary of postwar Germany after
all. as any visitor to the rue de Lille will
discover. An intense activity reigns within
and without The Embassy building and in
the spacious. Renaissance courtyard. Brick
layers masons. carpenters and painters are
hurrying up tn, construction Of new wings
and other additions to the structure. while
the reparation Of worn out and neglected
interiors is proceeding at a prodigiously
rapid, not to say expensive, pace.
The lonesome German caretaker who re-
mained throughout the war. living in the
little lo0e under the protection (until April.
1870 OF the American Ambassador, was not
able single-handed to keep the property in
the best condition, and the place became
mouldy and weathor-worn through neglect
Besides, many youthful artist apd patriot
had during those four terrible years exer-
cised his talents and given way to his feel
ings in pencil and chalk on the outside walls
and doors of the Embassy. It almost seemed
that everyone who passed that house had
affixed version of his opinion of things
German In terms often not elegant but al
ways forceful, and many "Vive la France"
and "On ne Passe Pas" is now going under
the stone scraper with the dust Of other less
ceremonious warnings.
The additional wings are being added to
the Embassy principally to house the staff.
which now is one Of the largest of any en-
bassy In Paris. The returning Germans
found certain conditions existing In Paris
that did not exist before they dreamt their
dream OF universal hegemony-an acute
housing crisis; dislike for German tenants
and abnormal rents. especially when reduced
from marks to francs. All this meant that
the Embassy had to make provision to
house the small army Of attaches and clerks
Besides, no German consuates having yet
been established in France. all the consular
offices had 70 be squeezed into the Embassy.
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Dr. Mayer German Ambassador Paris Merely Being Tolerated
Many From Across the Rhine Appear on Busi-
ness---Public Takes Slight Heed

Adolf Mayer. a short, slight man in the
fifties, who. might easily be lost in small
group of middle aged clerks or shopkeepers,
is the first German Ambassador who never
held title belonged to an aristocratic
family. He is democrat, a Bavarian and
a Catholic, three qualifications much in his
favor from French point of view In some
of his shirt sleeve methods he might easily
be compared with certain old time Ameri-
can diplomatists. Above everything, the
French who have met him size him up as "A
man so totally different from his predeces-
sors in the Rue de Lille that 1t is hard to
believe he is diplomatic representative of
Germany.
But in this fortunate respect his colleagues
are far from resembling their chief. Inves-
tigation has disclosed that nearly all of the
important attaches at the Germany Embassy
are part and parcel of the old gang of the
Wilhelmstrasse. With the exception of the
Ambassador they are all diplomats de cariere
and as no diplomatic career dates from tho
time of the armistice they unquestionaby
belong to the Foreign Office Of Won Jagow
and Zimmerman.
The keynote OF Dr. Mayors diplomacy in
Paris is commercalism. He is before every
thing else business man. Originally law
yer in Munich, he engaged in business short
ly before the war and in the four years that
followed piled up an immense fortune. His
political vision is dominated by the economic,
a fact which during all the negotiations on
the reparations question contributed much
to maintain comprehensive aison betwee n
Paris and the Berlin Government. Another
factor operating much in the favor of DIR.
Mayer and which has gained for him the
particular respect of the French financial
and commercial world is his advocacy OF a
Franco-German rapprochement on an eco
nomic basis. Mayer has partly succeeded in
convincing Frenchmen that the future of
France and Germany as well as that of Con-
tinenta1 Europe rests upon an economic un-
derstanding between the two great European
military Powers and a common protection
against the commercialism of England and
the United States. French officials have ac-
tually conceded that such an understanding
with Germany is inevitable.
Mayer Keeps in Background,
While His STAFF Struts About
Apart from an occasional visit to the DUAL
d'Orsay, the French Foreign Office and spe-
cial calls OF a purely diplomatic and official
nature. the German Ambassador seldom
goes about. His official contact with French
men and other members Of the diplomatic
corps Is limited, while his social activities are
almost nil. His wife. who Is from Lorraine,
has many friends among the French, but her
social activities are to great extent limited
to her husbands very tactful participation
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

Special Correspondence to THE New YORK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Feb. 90.
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
France viii Not Forget
The Atrocities of the Germans

Legally and technically the German rep
resentatives In France-from the Ambassa-
dor downward-are In diplomatic language
persona 1rdto In fact. however, they are
not. The war and all its horrors, the memory
of German atrocities and the souvenirs of
French suffering are all still too vivid in
tho minds Of the nation who only yesterday
laid In his grave the Unknown Poilu, to per-
NIT OF forgiveness and rapproachement
Friendly enemies is as near a construction
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

in the social life of the capital. On rare oc-
casons the German Ambassador is seen at
the opera or the theatre. His staff, on the
contrary, mingle in the general life of Paris
without hesitancy, which accounts for the
sight of SO many German hair cuts and
checkered suits on the boulevards lately
Since his official reception and particularly
since the incident of the American Am
bassador's refusal to be introduced to him
Herr Mayer has kept considerably in the
background. He is invited to the regular
diplomatic functions along with all the
members of the diplomatic corps and often
accepts. The reception he receives is neces-
sarily very formal and sometimes even cold.
1t Is on such occasions, when the Ambas-
sador begins to sense the cooling atmos-
phere, that he shows his tactfulness. To
avoid meeting the invited guests at an
official reception Herr Mayer sometimes re-
treats before the reception opens after
having paid his respects TO the hosts at
the diplomatic dinner which usually precedes
one of those receptions.
Recently at a state reception given at
the Elysee Palace the first state event
In the Presidents dwelling since the war,
the German Ambassador was observed leav-
ing shortly before the arrival of the guests
for the reception He was present at the
dinner with the President and the other
diplomatic representatives.
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HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, by THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Feb. 20.
~ ARIS has seen the physiogDomy of it's
- streets undergo periodic changes as
l. the weeks and months dimrned the
now fast disappearing images of the war.
More and more the peacetime aspects Of the
boulevards are returning and with them the
faces of many foreigners not seen since the
days before the war. But Paris has been
looking out for one particular face--the
tell-tale face-to really prove that peace
had come. And il has finally come this
face for no surer sign of the return to the
old days can be found to-day than the sight
OF the once familiar. blond and adipose
figure Of the German. calmly promenading
along the boulevards Of the Paris whose
possession he so ardently coveted They
have indeed returned. the Germans, and in
considerable number, preceded by heavy
vanguard of diplomats and attaches who
have opened the German Embassy for busl-
ness.
The return of the German Ambassador and
his staff to Paris lis the story OF the return
OF Germany to France. in quest of Its lost
prestige. rapprochement and-business. II
mirrors bluntly and somewhat poignantly.
this truly dramatic phase of the wars de-
nouement--the return Of the defeated enemy
10 the house of the victor
Dr. Adolf Mayer. German Ambassador to
France, although officially received last
October, is really Just now preparOg to hang
ont his shingle. He is the latest addition
to the diplomatic family here in spite of the
fact that he has been In Paris nearly whole
year sitting as IL were, on the doorstep
OF the Eysee Palace for word from the
Presidency to enter and present his Gre
dentials All throughout the long illness Of
ex-President Deschanel and the subsequent
interval of President Millerand's election
and Inauguration the German Ambassador
waited, until. unexpectedly one day, he was
asked TO come and be received into the Corps
Diplomatiuue. The welcome which. in the
usual case OF an Ambassadors reception by
the Chief Of state consists of cordial ex-
change Of greetings, took the form this time
of a summary warning TO Herr Mayer and
his Government by President Millerand-a
warning that Germany must not tamper
with the dearly bought victory Of the Allies
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Harding's Task Harder One
Than Has Met Any New President

So far we have found no solution in Con-
gress. The outgoing Wilson Administration
leaves behind it situation incomparaby
more difficult than has been the legacy of
any administration since that of Buchanan
Indeed save only for Lincoln, no President
has ever been called upon to face such a
crisis as confronts Mr.. Harding on the very
day when he takes office. And for him the
most terrible circumstance lies in the fact
that his own fate, the fate of his admins
tration, the immediate future. of his coun-
try's prosperity depend upon things which
lie almost beyond his control or his power
to exercise effective influence.
For 1t must be clear at once that IL France
moves, If there be such a consequence as
must at least be regarded as possible, If not
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Spends Most of His Time
Working Behind Locked Doors

Herr Mayer is hard worker and spends
most Of his time. closed UP in his library. at
work Whether 1t is for the purpose OF pro-
lection against harm or to avoid Interrupt
ton, the German Ambassador is always
under lock and key. When secretary or n
colleague Is summoned or wishes to visit the
Ambassador he calls at the guardians Office
for a key and admits himself into the
Ambassadors study. closing the door and
leaving the key with the guardian upon leav-
ing. The Ambassador makes frequent visits
to Berlin and Munich. He also keeps
directly In touch with his country by daily
telephone communications over a private
wire.
"IIow do the residents In the neighbor-
hood OF the German Embassy regard the
return of their erstwhile enemes?" Ameri-
cans ask when they come to Paris. The
residents OF the street as well as thost OF all
Paris regard the return OF the Germans
somewhat In the same fashion as the gen
darme on the beat in front of the Embassy
does. When THE New York HERALD CORE.
spondent asked him this question he re-
piled with shrug OF the shoulder and that
air of Indifference and unconcern which was
so expressive OF the Partisan during the war:
LES Bosches? AIais. on sen fichel"
Meaning: "Fiddlesticksl"
The New York herald., 1921-03-06
Germans Do Their Dusting of
With Characteristic Thoroughnes.

The Germans then took possession OF
their old Embassy in the rue de Lille in the
heart Of the old aristocratlc Boulevard Saint
Germaine quarter and stones throw from
the Chamber of Deputies and the Foreign
Office. With thoroughness character
The New York herald., 1921-03-06

tria thousands are actually dying of starva-
tion and hundreds of thousands are existing
underfed and hopeless.
We have passed through that period OF
optimism which followed the actual ending
Of hostilities In that hour the world looked
forward to peace and the swift return of
those conditions which existed before Ger
many launched the first divisions of her
gray clad millions. Hope has given way 20
despair in the hearts of millions. 1t is no
longer a question of going back to work :
work itself is lacking now in a score of
countries. The revival which 1t was ex-
pected would come soon has been delayed, is
still delayed and as time passes the situation
does not remain static it becomes daily and
hourly worse.
Chaos to the Economic World
Predicted from Invasion of Germany
Thus an irruption Of France into Germany
in the next few weeks or months does not
mean a mere military demonstration. to be
followed by German submission. At least
the chances that the consequences will be
comprehended in any such result are slight.
1t means rather, in all human probability, a
new powerful, perhaps fatal blow to the
whole staggering structure, political and
economic but economic before political, of
Europe, from London to Petrograd and from
Hamburg to Constantinople. Nor does the
area of chaos end at the Urals and at the
Bosporus, since Asia, too is in eruption and
the unsolved Russian and Turkish questions
await determination. when, II ever, the Ger
man trouble may be adjusted.
Now, for the United States, what exactly
does a new European explosion mean? We
have fortunately or unfortunately, passed
the time when any considerable number of
Americans believe that we can remain iso-
lated from the economic consequences of
European disorder. We have voted en- mdsse
at the recent election to keep out of Europe
politically speaking. But almost before the
votes were counted the remotest Western
agricultural community began to take notice
that the failing market for its products was
due to European conditions. For three
months a dying Congress has wrestled with
the problems of American production, with
the problems imposed by the need of find
ing foreign markets for the surplus of
American production and for the preserva-
ton of that development of American agri-
culture and industry which the World War
brought
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-25
CHINESE DELEGATES THREAT TEN TO
WITHDRA " FROM MEETING SHOULD
BRITISH TION PREVAIL
ANY RESULTING AGREEMENT ON NAVAL
ARMAMENT SHOULD BE IN TREATY FORM

rid itself, without appealing to con-
gress. of vessels it considers no longer
useful
But an indication that opinion might
now be turning rather toward the for
NAL treaty plan developed today when
it became known that there is in the
American delegation a tendency to look
upon a treaty as the only logical in
strument to carry out the decision of
the conference. One or two of the
delegates are said to have strong con-
victions on the points. and to be ready
to advise that so important an agree
ment ought not to be left in the diplo-
matte status OF an understanding.
The decision as far as the United
States is concerned. is expected to rest
with President Harding, although it is
taken for granted he will ask for the
opinion of his representatives in the
negotiations