The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-07
Lloyd George Has Gone too Far
France Tired of BritQinS Yoke

stand ~" British upbNlC irrltatCd
troubled actually suffering IN many
ca's. For Britain tho war has bocu
in ts immediate consequences little
loss than a national calamity, how w-
ever great the eventual gain France
IS unpopular ina Britain because the
mass Of the British people hold
French policy responsible for their
own domestic economic troubles.
pospit" IN, effort of Lord Derby
and few other prominent English
mon 90 promote an AugIu. French
alliance, the great mass of the Eng.
lish people are cold tu the project.
ON the other hand practically
every FrcnChman IN indignant a. ;hc
injuries he couooiycs his country
has suffered az British hands Ito
feels that he has boon abandoned.
that having contributed twice AS
many lives as the united kingdom
TO the common victory, his claims
have been thrust aside md for the
sake Of trade, the British are now
willing to play tho German against
tho FrcuChWnn. to risk French So
Curity i'm order to promote British
prosperity.
BRAND In n Tight"
II IL the popular sentiment In
France and particularly In the
chamber Of deputies. which makes
the task of Briand almost impos-
sih!c. Like Nilicrand he would
like Ia preserve intimate relations
with Britain. Like Nillcrand and
Icygncs, his predecessors, Ike
tlcmcnCcau at the Paris confer
cnCc, BRAND has made sacrifice
after sacrifice, hc has yielded
again and again to lloyd George.
but rs consequence he was near
lN turned out OF office Just he
fore the French parliament ad-
iourncd and hc knows that any
further concession viii seal his
fate when the chamber recon-
Ncnt~.
II would seem that the French
govcru~nt and the French people
have decided To stand fast upon tho
upper Silosian issue and insist that
the British at last yield some hing
Every sign 50 far points 10 a rather
doggod determination TO defend the
unqucstionablc Polish rights In this
region even AT the risk Of dcmul-h-
ing the Anglo-Frouch alliance. Bril-
ish policy here. ms everywhere, Is
quite clear. If the coal mines go
to Poland then the German eco
nomlc situation will be further i'm
paired. what IS even more serious
Is the fact that tho present German
government can hardly survive any
unfavorable solution OF the upper
Silcsian mess and the fall cf the
present government would uuquos-
tionahlv mean the return Of 1untcr
clements and involve fresh German
rcsistanCcs to rcparntiOps conditions
ard--in word RESTORE all the old
evil situation which preceded the
German surrender go the reparation'
terms in May. Revolution, coming
from the right or tho left. resistance
10 France resulting in fur,h'r re-
prisals, resulting in the end IN the
occupation of the Ruhr Nv the
French army, this Is what the Rrit-
.sh see. IL Silcsia goes 70 Poland In
large part
French Stand by Poland.
Tho British are thus willing to
turn the Poles Of upper Silosia back
to- the Germans as other British gov
crnmcnts were willing 20 turn the
Christian populations Of the Balkans
back to the Turk. in the last cen
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international quarrel which was
bound 10 hc disadvantaEcous 90
British interests But the French.
for whom the Polish army is a solid
guarantee against new German at
tacks, will not abandon Poland,
their ally.
The fundamental difficulty in the
situation lies in the fact that tho
sl l..
soss the power to carry on. thor
own policy If, FOR example, BRAND
fcn and PoiuCare came IN, there
would - no way, short Of wa, that
the British could restrain the
French from action on the Rhin"
So far Lloyd George, by his supreme
skill In private conversations, has
been able to persuade one French
man after another TO withhold his
hand. even when such course
spelled political ruin for himself
because Of French public sentiment
But it is clear that this sort of 'hing
cannot go on indofinitoly
The more the situation IS studied
the palmer becomes tho fact that
there is no common basis Of in
terests out Of which a common pol
lSN tl NfIlbll ''Alh I'NNlNt . VI ~
and British interests arc not only
opposed now they have been IN
conflict ever since the armis'ice, and
so far as one can see they must
remain I'm conflict FOR long time
~ come. And for much of this time
France will hc able II she once de-
cidcs 70 take hcr fortune in her
own hand, 20 impose her will upon
Germany.
Greek Turk War Factor,
Tho balance Of power in Europe
f. ror the time being 4 memory
LLOYD George has steadily relied
upon the Italians - support him
arains, tho Frsloh, but Italy seems
rarldlv sinking into a condition of
domestic anarchy which must ter
rLIy weaken her influence abroad
Moreover the recent victory Of th'
Greeks over the Turks, representing
a triumph for British policy not
loss clearly means disaster fo'
Italian aspirations in the Aegean
and I'm Asia Minor. In 'hi7 part o'
m, world France and Italy arc
united in prcfcrring Turkish 10
Greek supremacy,
Now In all this tanglr tho Brit
ish have in reality only one re-
source left, If only they can per-
suadc the United States 10 inter
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