The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
Upper Silesia Provides Only One Of the Problems
Over Which Wartime Friends Are Now
Al Losserheads. =
/ BIZ FRANK II. sIMoNps.

N ment Of yet another Anglo-Freneh crisis. or,
to put Il more exactly. the old. familiar lack
Of eordiality and mutual confidence between the two
nat6ns recently Allied against Germany has produced
another Incident" another Question In point of
fact not even the Question" is new since il relates
to Upper Silesa. Out of the incident. however grew
demand, on both sides Of the channel but partcu-
alary IN Paris for a general liquidation. = n y s
As i stands today the French and British are at
odds almost everywhere, over Upper Siesia over the
whole Near Eastern problem from Palestine to Con-
stantinople, over the Sanctions along the Rhine
over the wider question Of how Germany shall be
treated There is nothing new p such differences Of
opinion, ON the contrary. they have become wenigh
chronic Yet il is plain that a new note is creeping
into the discussion note Of bitterness which hints
at least at FINAL break between the two natiops
II you study the French press ever so little. in
these recent days, if you read Che Paris correspond
enee Of so weiI-informed newspaper the, Journal
de Geaeyr you will easily discover that there is rap
idly coming to the surface in France a feeling Of
resentment and bitterness, which can lead to the
grayest consequences When Joan Herbette. in the
semiof6ciai Tsmps, frankly asserts that Britain is
playing the German game against the French, sup
porting Germany against France, measure of the
breach is available
Stable Basis Of Relations
this situation and from many quarters in France
comes the insistent demand that Anglo-French
relations be placed upon stable basis. From
the point Of view of the French all the concessions,
all the sacrifices made to preserve peace within the
entente and specifically within the Anglo-French
alliance, have been made at the expense of France.
Everywhere it has been France which has been called
upon to resign claim to satisfy British policy.
And France is frankly tired of yielding.
For weeks the British have been pressing the
French to meet them at one more of the endless
conferences which have followed the Paris gathering
which made peaceqr attempted to---a conference TO
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the French on their part have avoided fixing date,
because the French do not desire discuss the Upper
SiIcsan affair alone. they anxious that there
should be placed upon the green table everyone of
the dozen or two matters onswhich Paris and London
disagree and transaction arranged.
Obviously such transaction could not be at the
expense Of France alone, as most Of the bargains
made at the several conferences have ben If France
should be compelled to yield in Upper Silesia or
the Rhine. Britain would have to make similar sac
ri6ces in the Near East What the French have in
mind is general bargain such in 1904 terminated
long years Of pnpricking' and pickering over Egypt
the Sudan, West Africa Siam and Morocco. A pol
icy of give and take French concessions in the
Of Egyptian Claims British surrender in the matter
Of Moroccan pretensions brought France and Britain
TO a better mutual relation than they had occupied
ever in their long history Of neighbor quarreling.
The recent proposal of the French to send fresh
division to Upper Sesia which has led to very bitter
comment on both sides of the channel was only one
more indication OF the French determination to assert
their own viewA France fears all conferences be-
tween prime ministers because SO faf, Lloyd George
has had the better of them all He has ruined
Ciemenceau, Leygues; he almost upset Mlerand
when the present President prime minister and
yielded to the Georgian spell Atthe moment Brands
hold u very insecure, because Of his submission to
many Georgian proposals.
TSHE truth Is that France Is hurt in two ways
by the long series OF Anglo French Disputes
In the first place. as have said. the French
see each dispute finally adjusted in accordance with
British ideas and the material expense of French in
terests In the second place they see France rapidly
being put in subordinate position to Britain all
the world, becoming second rate power, once more
wholly dominated by British statesmanship and di-