Pueblo chieftain., 1921-03-12
FRANCE HAS JUSTIFICATION
! FOR MOVE into GERMANY
Entrance Based On Germany's Failure to Live Up to
Agreements Of Reparahon
Treaty

All acicc that Frances motive is
not primarily money; that military oc-
cupitic;, of Germany would cost 81
| 'or every 81 collected and that trc
hcf purpose to reduce Germany to
Ictl impotence that France need no
Jngcr fear her,
All agree also that England has
hanged her policy recently aud Will
,ot try to restrain France.
Finally, all agree that If the worst
- destined to come, tho world will
nave warning that condition pre-
.edcnt to extreme action will be the fall
If the present government of France
md tho appearance of a new govern
meut, dominated by milltarists ltkc
Foch and Poincairc.
Passing from these points argument
% comparison of divergent yiews.H The
most gloomy expectation Is that
Franco will continue the penetration
If Germany in short time she Will
be Joined by tho Poles coming in from
he east Frances purpose will be to
disrupt the German empire into scN-
ersl small states; to carry away all
possible forms of portable property.
To render German factories and the
mechanism of German business impo-
tent for several years to como, and.
generally speaking, to reduce Germany
10 such a condition politically and eco
lomicslly that she VIII not be men
nee TO France, either as a business
rival or as a political or military enc
my, for generations to come.
The more gloomy view includes the
1Npcctation that a state of semi-bol-
,hcvism will arise in Germany lead
ng to years of industrial paralysis
and partial starvation. This is the
most gloomy view. The consequences
Ii implies 10 America and tho rest OF
the world are too obvious 10 need
I. cital.
The more hopeful view is that what
is now going on is a kind OF Cicker-
ing which includes bluff on both sides.
II tho present negotiations be regard
ed in the nature of trading. IL Is OBJ
vious that each side will take n more
extreme stand than it ultimately M
tends TO stick to. Franco must threat
en- to go in. and Germany must pro-
test that she cannot pay nor other
wise live UP to the treaty.
The end OF 1t, according to the more
hopeful view, Is that the Germans will
avoid giving cause for drastic occu-
patton OF their country by either the
French or Polish armies; that Ger
man industry is already picking up.
that tfic Germans purposcly are keep
ing their government poor to tho edge
OF bankruptcy to make "A good case
and are piirposciy keeping tho value
OF the mark depressed that as soon
as Germany finds she must pay she
will address herself to that task and
stop whining. that so soon as her OBJ
legations arc definite germany will
substitute industrial conscription for
military conscription and will achieve
national efficiency which will en-
able her to undcrscll every other Ba
tion, and that. locking ahead moro dis
family We are entering upon n now
series Of wars. but that they will be
economic not military or naval.
As regards America. all these men
are agreed, and they include some who
opposed tho league OF nations, that
we cannot have even the faintcst be-
ginuinGs OF renewed prosperity in
America until this factor is .etticd:
aud that this is a condition precedent
to the stahilzing of exchanges and
the renewal OF foreign trade-that II Is
unfortunate that America has put her
self in a position where we arc un-
able to exert influence on a factor
which affects US so profoundly; and
sooner or later we will he forced to
recognize facts and accept the part
that Is forced upon us by our stake
in the outcome.
One one final point there is the most
complete agreement OF all-that We
cannot possibly throw such a monkey
wrench into the machinery as would
now be involved in passing Senator
knoNs resolution for separate peace
with Germany
Copyright 1921 by the New York
Evening Post, 1ncD