Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-03
EUROPE ISS|CK :
AND RECOVERY
|SQUEsT|0NED
From Ireland to Far
East Is a Chain of Dip
lomatic Blunders.
Meanwhile There Are
Calls to America for
Financial Help.
BY WILLIAM BIRD
The Tribuns's Foreign corresp pendent
Special Cable to The Tribune.


Copyright 1921, by The Tribune.)
Paris, July 2.-''Is the patient out
of danger?"
mo, the doctors are still with him. -
This bit of humor in one of the Paris
papers this week applies appropriate
" to the present state of Europe.
Europe still has her doctors and her
beds in the hospitals and if their
methods of treatment is continued,
there is. indeed, little hope Of recovery.
Premier Lloyd George made an in
effectual attempt this week to doctor
the Irish situation. Although every
body hoped the three cornered con-
ference would come off. Eamonn de
Valera seems amply justified in his
attitude. He could not afford. as the
undisputed representative of the great
Irish majority, to enter a conference
which was certain in advance to place
him in the minority.
Dc Valera Wants Winning Cards.
Naturally. he has to deal with the
Irish minority in conference in
which he would hold the winning cards.
The refusal of the Ulster men. with
English backing to meet de Valera
alone emphasizes therefore the doubt
full character of original Lloyd
Georges proposal.
The childish appeals to King Con-
stantine Of Greece after naughty ac-
ceptance or refusal of the result of
the last Greek elections which re-
stored him to the throne, have insured
the continuance of war in the near
Orient to the ultimate profit of the
bolsheviki cause.
doctor" Giolitti's recent efforts in
elections to drown Italian opinion I'M
der wave Of Fascist reaction. has re
suited not only in his discontinue but
in the paralysis of the parliamentary
government.
Reactionaries Active in France.
Meantime, military reactionaries in
France are working behind the back
of Premier BRAND. seeking to attempt
a similar sitting process through the
means of an oppressive censorship and
star chamber laws. with immense re-
sistance to Frances internal peace.
1t is not unnatural in the circum
stances that German goose steppers
should be using the present oppor-
tunity to undermine the liberal Wirth |
Government in Berlin.
In the midst of this imbroglio. APP
peals go out to America for help. |
This. of course, means financial help. |
But America may justly ask what has !
been done with the help already fur |
nished
French Bank Fails in China.
On Thursday came the announce
ment that the French industrial bank |
of China had failed. Several hundred
millions of French capital was in !
vested in the institution. This bank |
was started to rival the international |
consortium and Immediately launched !
upon mad career of speculation in
Chinese produce. as well as Chinese
exchange BY an ironical coincidence,
it's failure occurred on the very eve
of the reopening of the great German
bank in China.
Not only has French capital. sore
IL needed at home for reconstruction,
been sauandered, but French prestige
in the far east has sufferd. !
England Is Spending Millions.
Great Britain. although heavily in
debted to the United States is spend
ing hundreds of millions monthly on
warlike ventures in Egypt and Meso-
potamia. destined to protect British
capital engaged there.
Exported capital is thus not only
source of heavy private losses to
Europe. but also the cause Of immense
military budgets.
Meantime appeals continue to Amer
ica to furnish capital for domestic en-
terprises which local capitalists do not
deem profitable enough. &
Frankly. the time for optimism
about Europe's condition has not yet
arrived.