The Washington times., 1921-04-28
FINDS WORLD
NEEDSHUCHES
His Clear Thinking Necessary In
Present Reparations Crisis,
Says Hapuood.
By NORMAN HAPGOOD.


demoralixed world that Charles Z.
Hughes has brains. He also has
will. He 10 going to need both.
Also he is not badly infected with
war psychology. A man who IL still
thinking in war terms il worse than |
useless at the present moment
BLAMEs FRENCH STATESMEN.
That 10 what 10 the matter with
the French government. 1t ID doing
all 1t can to plunge Europe into
anarchy more costly than the war
itself. 1t 10 frightening the French
population, cajoiing 1t. feeding 1t
lies.
why do the French politicians do
these things? Because they are
politicians and the first law OF their
lives il to remain In office.
There 10 no gain In frothing about
the faults Of the present German
government. It IL the people on top
who are responsible for n wise solu
ton. not those underneath.
GERMANY HELPLESS.
trying. by every device they can
fnd, to lessen the penalties inflicted
on them. There 10 no chance they
will be able to get out OF paying as
much as Is for the good Of the
world.
without any invasion, without any
technical cheating and twisting of
the terms of the treaty. the Ger
mans would still be helpless. They
cannot possibly get on their feet
without raw material and foreign
1 So ~,.kS oL L.. 49,, -.
cooperation of the principal coun-
tries among their former enemies.
/ do not believe tho story tina.
there is a secret understanding be-
tween France and Great Britain. by
which Britain gets a free hand in
Russia in return for which France
gets a free hand in Germany.
France did what she could to
prevent the British from making
the trade agreement with Russia.
England acted. anyway. 1t Is no:
for any such reason that she allows
| France now to dictate the treatment
| of Germany.
| FRANCE FORCING ANARCHY.
France does IT because she insists
on doing II. and. of course, wants
Ii the French keep on they may
force such . smashup sooner or
later.
II they occupy the densest Ruhr
| district on May /. alone or with
perfunctory cooperation of the Brit
| ish. they will take the first step
| toward an anarchy from which the
Germans will be the first to suffer.
| but from which in the end the
French will suffer more even than
the Germans.
complete desperation, everybody will
be bled almost to death. but Germany
and Russia will emerge from the ruins
| with more strength than the smaller
population Of France. The only gamers
will be either the Bolsheviki or the
| Royalists
FEARS LOSS OF POWER.
BRAND is hurried along his deadly
| course because those who threaten to
take the power away from him are
not the more liberal elements in
France. but those whose spokesmen
are Poincare, Foch, Tarrieu and Leon
Daret.
The matters in real dispute are
trivial compared with what invasion
| would bring on us all. They are
mostly matters OF fact and arithmetic.
Impartial business men could agree
on them in a month.
No such impartiality can be per-
mitted because the French politicians
are still soaring their people to death
about the French budget with its
threat of bankruptcy. and feeding
them at the same time on the idiotic
hope that the German reparation can
save them
Nothing on earth can save them
except higher taxes, more ruthlessly
collected. and a resumption of bust
ness, which the invasion will set back
for months and perhaps for years.
FRENCH LABOR's STAND.
The greatest OF French labor I'M
ions comes out with a plea for nnd-
ing the reparations in German labor
applied to the devastated region, per-
haps using German materials, with
the hope Of resulting good will: la
Dor knows, as everybody at heart
knows, that grabbing the small Ger
| man gold reserve out of the national
bank is no solution. 1t would ruin
German credit, which is bad enough
already, and would thereby make Ger
many still less able to carry out the
enormous undertakings forced on her.
The policy OF the inside group of
French politicians Is not in truth
aimed At preparedness. 1t IL aimed at
foolins the French people In the first
place, and finding excuses for con-
trolling. in the second place. more
coal, iron and strategic boundaries
than the French were able to force
out of Wilson at Paris.
1t is imperialism that carries in
itself the seeds of death for all, and
primarily for the country that en-