The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30

task of international conciliation set by President Harding, the govern ment should closely have exam ned with Great Britain the questions which have caused so many diff culties between us during the last two years and should have formulated certain clear principles defining the common interests safely uniting the European nations which were the vic- tims of German imperialism.
 Not a Clear Answer
 Premier Briand did not give clear answer to either question. On the contrary manuever immediately de- veloped which found expression in the Chicago Tribune. accusing me of demanding that France uphold Japan against the United States at Wash ington. immediately replied to the fabrication. which the text of my speech disproves as well as my past record. and asked my friend, Ambas- sador Herrick, to transmit my denial to his government.
 France must work wholeheartedly with the United States, but the United States, France and Great Britain have common interest in the face of menaces which may arise from east ern Europe and Asia In preparing with. Japan their wartime basis their understanding. That is President Harding's policy.
 What l asked was that the gov- crnment follow the mandate given in the elections of 1919. These were a smashing triumph for the moderate republicans over the coalitionists and these radicals who had always worked with the socialists. In ad- ministering this rebuke to the party which had governed almost uninter- rurtcdly since 1902, the country re- membered that that party reduced our military resources in 1905 and 1907s that it combatted the three years ser- vice law in 1913 and in tho follow ing year demanded its repeal on the very eve of the German attack
 Remembered Criminals
 The country remembered also that Caillaux and Malvy, convicted of criminal failures regarding the na- tional defense, long were chiefs of the radical socialist party. That Is how the immense majority in tho chamber happened to be hostile to the socialists and their radical allies. By a strange paradox this majority up- holds the control of the socialist radical groups
 Until the age of 35 Briand belonged lO tHc oocidiSSo 1hN his sympathies still are with the ex- treme left His minister of the in- terior Is a radical socialist Most everyone in France, the governments local representatives, are from the ranks of the party defeated at the last elections,
 This is the situation against which protested. I showed that as the government authority must have a frontier at the right. 1t must also have one at the left and not tempor- ize with the revolutionaries, whose temper was shown by the recent manifestations in honor of two Ital- ian communists condemned by Ameri- can justice T demanded that the cabinet trace such frontier. It re- fused and in the final vote the radi- calls who voted communist in the re- cent Paris elections voted for the Briand government
 An understanding of this situation is necessary for the interpretation of events of the coming months. The party lineup is being clarified and the struggle will be hot
 The French adversaries are united on only one point, common desire for good work at Washington toward an organized world peace.