The Washington herald., 1921-01-26
BY CHARLES A. sELDEN.
Cable Dispatch 10 III
Washington Herald and the New
York Evening PostD

York Evening Post)
PARIS, Jan. 25.-With the open
ing of the allied conference, the
prime ministers trying once more to
square facts with hopes and theo-
ries in the business of making
peace with Germany, Paris again
suggests, at least in miniature, the
days of the great peace conference
opening two years ago. There are
various notifications, some of them
pathetic and regrettable.
The British delegation has moved
down from its various hotels in the
neighborhood Df the Arch of Tri-
umph to the Place de la Concorde
and tho old Hotel Crillon, from
which vantage point the United
States of America in the opening
months of 1919 dominated the af-
fairs of the world so far as regu-
lating peace terms was concerned.
Today Americans in Paris are chief
ly engaged in seeing the Louvre,
NOtre Dame and Eiffel Tower. 1t is
not entirely clear just how their ac-
tiVities add to the present dignity.
future influence or profit of their
own country.
Make Best Efforts.
However. England. France. Italy,
Japan and Belgium arc going ahead
the best they can with the handicap
OF Americas absence to compos
their own differences and reach an
agreement with Germany at the
same time. That such differences
still oXist was very obvious last
evening when tho ocffiial report
came out concerning the first days
deliberations on tRc subject of the
disarmament of Germany. The re-
port said military experts had been
asked to give precise Information
wherein Germany had failed to live
up to the military terms OF the
treaty of Versailles and to sug-
gest methods for future compulsion.
Now. as matter Of fact, that
precise information already has been
in the hands of military experts
for many months and every allied
government knows the exact facts
by heart. The real situation is that
England and France are still not
agreed as to what to d.. next and
are covering this agreement, or try
ing to, by the pretensc that more
Information is needed.
The disarmament difficulty now
lies chiefly in Germany's so-called
various police forces organized
.ostensibly to preserve domestic
peace and put down Bolshevism, but
in reality. according to French
claims, to. form nucleas f$r a new
and powerful Germany army. -.l...
France wants the t1support OF all
her allies in taking drastic measures
to abolish htese so-called police
forces Immediately. England. dread
ing anything that remotely suggests
further military activities on her
part on the continent, more than
anything else does not want TO go so
far with threats that subsequent
developments may compel fighting.
The attitude of Lloyd George is that
Germany must not be allowed to
develop these police forces into a
real army. that they must eventu-
ally be disbanded. but that in the
meantime thre must be tolerance in
giving Germany time really to safe
guard herself against internal dis
order. and that under no conditions
should there be at the present time
on the part OF the allies any further
occupation OF German territory such
as repetition OF the Frankfort
episode.
France for Quick Action.
France insists on the very letter
OF the Versailles treaty Immediately.
1T is to reconcile these opposing
views that further time is to be
taken under. the gslise of getting