The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-26

ne Going Nicely.
Count he Fights.
Soon They Separate.
Row About Money.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(CopyriEht. 1917

1by ARTHUR BRISBANEJ
Copyright Is2I.)
Well, Mr.. Chairman, and gen.
tiemen, the loving conference
at Washington is progressing as
weil ~ could be expected. Not
more than six or seven new in
ternational animosities have been
brought to head by the confer
ence.
To know what happens read
al the news articles and strike
an average. Reporters try to
give facts. Pay little attention
70 editorial writer's. Those gen.
tIemen start with theory and
spend the rest Of the time trying
to vindicate it.
Glance over q newspaper that
Thinks It's . League of Nations
paper. On one page in one edi-
Ton Of the New York Times you
Set th6oo lines in big type:
Italy jealous Of France.
Secret propaganda calls Japan
Victim.
Accuses Great Britain and
America.
hesA.
Cur.sn warns France, headed
fer disAstsr.
.Chinsss aroused to press claims.
Turn over, please, and read,
IN . cable from London: ASKS
Wehs to step anti-Frsnch cables"
Wells came here just bubbling
over with peace. "Peace or
chaos" was his motto. He heard
one speech by BRAND and
promptly changed his cry to:
France ID planning q war with
England And Northcliffe's Daily
Mail, which can see a war az
far, ahead as anybody, cables:
"Wells, II you don't stop writing
20 bitterly about France well
stop printing your articles"
It il, however, a useful confer
ence. From it all Americans, in
eluding the President, may learn
that the only nation we can count
on. the only nation with which we
should have any intimate relations,
outside Of commerce and friend
ship. IL the United States.
BRAND has gone homo. His mes
sage was brief and plain: 1--WE
have met Germany several times.
Napoleon pulled her teeth, but we
met her again in 1870. You other
nations will not promise to fight
with us, IL war comes again, 50 we
are going to keep ready for it,"
The French are practical.
The other delegates will all go
home, probably BY the middle Of
December, and nothing will have
been done, except to reveal on this
continent the hatreds blazing or
smouldering in Europe. The French
intend to kill their enemy neighbor
Germany, economically as we'll as
AZ u HiuiIoXy oCAIoC.
This is shown by the order Of a
French general to destroy German
factories that employ zoe, 900 work
men and turn those men out to
starve. The excuse for the destruc-
tion is that the factories to be torn
down by men that work in them
might be converted by the Germans
into manufactures Of ammunition
and arms. Every factory could be
used In that way, as we learned in
the war.
But, as the French fable says,
"The argument Of the strong is
always the best" and France now
has the strength. She will not be
thwarted, If she can help it, in her
plan to destroy the neighbor that
she breads. France is practical,
and, having put behind her all pos
sibility Of conciliating her great
enemy by clemency, her alternative
IL that enemy's complete destruc-
ton.
England, seeing in Germany
only q manufacturing, trading
rival, does not want her killed,
only half killed, stupefied, while
England picks up trade. Hence
the row between England and
France. 81 don't want in middle
Europe the decaying carcasses of
two great nations, Germany and
Austria. It's bad for Europe's
health and it's playing the game
for Bolshevist Russia" So says
England.
Japan has discovered, to her dis
gust, that England in public is
not ~ proud Of her little brown
friend as she is in private. Japan
Is big and important as next door
neighbor to India. But the U.