Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-07
Conflict Believed Inevitable
When Premiers Meet
January l9
DISARMAMENT !, FIRST
Disagreement. However, viii Come
= Over Question of Bolshevism-
Churchill to Serve Notice


Paris. Jan. 7.-French political
circles are making ready for the
clash between French and British
ideals that is TO come in Paris jan
rary 70, when a meeting of the Su-
,/orefic CouAc,l Of utmost i1nportancs
to all the world, will be held.
German disarmament will be the
Grss subject on the program. It :,
understood that the French will be-
gin BY. proposing to give the Ger
mans three periods OF eight days
each in'.which to carry out the Spa
disarmament agreements. France
undoubtedly would make further con-
cessions. if necessary, but her policy
will depend largely upon whether
Premier Leygues is stip in pewer
then. He stands now in great CAN
ger of being replaced with more
energetic leader. His Government
will be attacked in the Chamber of
Deputies next Tuesday.
g. TIE conference will then tackle
4 the new reparations contract which
the Brussels conference OF. Allied
and German experts drew Cp last
I month. This PROGRAM has been
submitted to all the Allied Govern
.ncnts, with the suggestion that II
should regulate Ge-many's yearly
payments to the Allies. Complete
agreement of the Premiers IN accept
1ins this Brussels proposal is ex-
pected. except possibly on the sue-
! ject efsthe. totalramount which Ger
many shall pay. The French do not
wish TO have this amount fixed der
nitelyejust now.
Then the conference will turn to
the real business of the meeting,
whicf l.: .he question CT 'Boishe-
visn,. Here y e clash between Grea;
Britain and France will cccur
The conference also will discuss at
fairs in the Near East and possibly
the revision of the Treaty Of Sevres,
/ but even the Turkish problem can
rot be settled now without taxing
into account the power Of the soviets
Since the Bclsheviki have taken
over the protection Of the Armen:ans
the relations between the Turks
and the 'Bclsheviki. have become very
= strained In well-informed Frencs
& circles it IS Confirmed that an armed
conflict between the Bolsheviki and
the Turks is bound to come sooner
or later.
Flarce would have thu Allies fight
]. the BclSheviki in the Near East by
supporting the Turks and in Eastern
Europe by supporting Roumaria ana
Poland Incidentally. Winston Spcn-
Ger Churchill, British Minister OF
/ War, wlo is coming to Paris, Is re-
nortsu to be anxious to persrade
France to adopt his idea of getting
the Germans to help against the
Reds. France has no taste for this
proposal, prefering to rely exclusive
y on the Poles. the Roumanians and
the Turks, helped by herself and
possibly ether Allied powers.
1 Despite these reports about Church
Ills forthcoming visit. it is more
than probable that Churchill really
will come to Paris to inform the
French War Office officially that.
Great Britain has no men available
Tor. any active military POI 'cy on 80
Continent. either involving marcs
:nte Germany or an expedition
against the Bolsheviki
Great Britain prefers to have ne
Minister of War +cke the resronsi,
hility Of intimatine to France that
s # the French prefer an aggressive
policy they cannot count on Eng,
lands support, Churchill will havs
prepared tho ground for the liberal
3 program. toward the Germans and
the Bolshevik' which Lloyd George
hopes TO impose on France in Paris
Frances desire to make war or
Bolshevism has less to do with the
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