The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-22

Spectdt Cu0Ie to IHB NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, BY THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London, July 81.
Premier BRAND of France wants the
meeting Of the Allied Supreme Council,
which will consider the Upper Silesian
tangle, to be held at the end of August.
His desire was conveyed to the Brit
ish Foreign Office through diplomatic
channels to-day. Downing Street is
still insisting that the meeting of the
council should be held at Boulogne
by July %. That is the outward
manifestation of the inner split in the
Entente that Is seriously worrying all
Europe. Every effort is being made
on both sides Of the Channel to gloss
over this split but it is known there
is serious difference of opinion over
more than the date upon which the
council meeting is to be held
Likewise. Downing Street has taken
a very independent line upon what the
actual situation in Silesia is. Although
Sir Harold Stuart. British Commissioner
in Silesia. signed the joint appeal to the
Council Of Ambassadors to reinforce the
allied troops in the zone Of unrest. he
has sent to the British Foreign Office
despatch, which was received here to-
day. urging the Importance OF quick
settlement. whether more allied troops
are sent to Upper Silesia or not.
Ideal Time for Settlement.
In this despatch Sir Harold says nor
NAL activities of life are being resumed
rapidly by all persons In Upper Silesia.
He says that every one there Is busy
with the present harvest, upon which
their next winters sustenance depends.
and he asserts that the time Is ideal for
a settlement, as all the workers now are
employed cutting corn, whereas a fort
nights delay might find them with the
harvest completed. dancing and drunk
and ready for trouble.
According to information in diplo-
matte circles here tonight the Italian
Commissioners in upper Silesia agree
with this viewpoint, and this is the
viewpoint which Lord Curzon, British
= Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
as we'll as Mr.. Lloyd George himself. is
pressing with the utmost urgency on
the Quai d'Orsay tonight.
There Is every disposition here to
credit M. BRAND with the utmost good
faith and the utmost amenability to
reason. But 1t was stated almost openly
that Downing Street fears the influence
on the French Prime Minister by that
section of French opinion-particularly
French military opinion-which for
months has sought every pretext to ig-
more certain sections of the Treaty Of
Versailles and to make certain the act
ual destruction of Germany.
No objection to French Troops.
There Is not even disposition here
to disagree with the French thesis that
II is advisable to send more troops into
Upper Silesia. However. Great Britain
has no troops available to send there.
And even though French troops should
be sent into the province and they go
with the purest motives In the world,
behaving like perfect Solomons In divid-
ing the Polish-German babe. the mere
preponderancc Of French military
force in the situation there Is feared.
in so far as concerns its effect on Ger
man susceptibilities. Great Britain
frankly does not want to see any Ger
mans provoked into measures which
might Justify certain Frenchmen press
ing for vengeance.
The French Government to-day gave
a verbal answer to the British Charge
d'Affaires In Paris conveying. Great
Britain's suggestion that the Allied Su-
preme Council meet in Boulogne on July
49, 1t was said In we'll informed circles
here that the French Prime Minister
still holds that IL Is desirable to postpone
the meeting until August. and that in
the meantime the despatch Of allied REIN
forcements to Upper Silesia is necessary.
NJ. BRAND insists that such study Of
the Upper Silesian problem as Is now
necessary cannot be completed In a few
days.
In this connection It is interesting that
Mr.. Lloyd George told the House of
Commons to-day that a settlement of the
Upper Silesian problem could not be had
until the Allied Supreme Council meets.