The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
J. 5. MAY ACCEPT
 PARTS OF TREATY,
 DECLARES TARD|EU
May Eliminate Objectionable Portions and Put Remaining Sections Into Full Force
 and Reunite Allies
By ANDRE TARDIEU Former Head of French High Commission

Special Cable to The Age Herald
 Copyright, 1921, by The Age-Heralo) Coupled with Illuminating comment on the international situation as it ex- ists today, NJ. Tardieu makes dis tinct contribution by suggesting that the treaty of Versailles itself contains a formula which will permit the United States to accept only parts of it to which President Harding and the Senate have no objecfiOn.}
 Paris, April 23.-tSpecial.) We are now traversing period of wait ing and preparation. The course of events lacks definite direction. Yet several salient points stand out.
 First. we are awaiting a con-
 crete decision which will deter
 mine American foreign policy. The
 new exchange of notes between
 Berlin and Washington has been mt
 least step in thnt direction.
 Second. we are awaiting a deter
 imitation of the reparations conn
 mission concerning Germany's to-
 tai debt, This has been promised
 for Way. Perhaps the new nego-
 tiations ccntering Washington
 may mean delay.
 Third, we are awaiting such fur
 ther proposals as Germany may
 make before May 1. particularly in
 view of the plain intimation to
 Berlin from Washington that some
 thing definite must be advanced
 by the Germans.
 Fourth, we are awaiting a final
 decision to the cocrcive meas
 urcs to be taken if the new ncgo-
 uatlons fail and it becomes neces-
 sary to handle refractory debtor.
 This uncertainty makes comment n m Frr Ixf. sions.
 RESUME OLD GAME
 Germany obviously has intended to profit by this uncertainty and to re- sume her old game of attempting to divide the allies
 Von Simons, the German foreign min ister with the aid of the chancellor in hls latest move on the separations chess board. seeks mediators in a situa tion which requires none. Czecho- Slovakla flatly refused to intervene. The pope has failed to heed a similar appeal.
 And Aow the American Secretary of state, Mr Hughes, acting for President Harding, puts an end to Germany's hopes of mediation He says in effect that the United States will be glad to call to the attention of the allies any definite proposals Germany may have to make and the inference is plain that tne United States will consider these proposals in company with the allies The Hughes note shows anew that the { Lnited states Is not willing to annul he sacred claims of our war victims against Germany
 In this connection let me point out that the United States. by following a course outlined in President Harding. < message to Congress, can play a great and useful role. Articles 309 and BIO nf formula permitting the United States to play such role. The formula reads ::
 SIMPLE FORMULA
 rms article shall not apply as be- tween the United States on the one hand and Germany on the other"
 By applying this formula, through agreement with the allies. to such other articles of the treaty, to which the new administration at Washington does rot wish to subscribe, the whole of the re- : mainder can probably be put in force and the group of nations which won the War against Germany be reconstituted. some Americans recently have writ ten that the knox resolution, more or -ess completed by a declaration of gam eral principles would satisfy France. r cannot allow this misunderstanding to pass unchallenged As have cabled several times. what France asks of ii America is just what MT. Harding's presidential message proclaims, viz. : the ratification of the essential bases Of the peace in conformity with the essential bases of the war. French pupilc opinion remains unanimous on lhat subject. Our meaning is far from the meaning of the Knox resolution. have just returned from three days vlsir to the devastated region of Chemin des Danes, theatre of war curing 52 months of constant battle. I eSamineo scores of Villages in detail All of the inhabitants are workjrp hut
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