Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-25
FRANCE AT WASHINGTON.

FRANCE AT WASHINGTON.
IN last Sundays Tribune there ap-
peared a special cable to this
newspaper from Paris under the
signature Of Andre Tardieu, for
mer high commissioner to the Unit
ed States from France. These ar
ticles are syndicated to a number
of newspapers in the United States,
of which the Great Falls Tribune
is one. Mostly they are metro
politan newspapers and we doubt it
any other daily newspaper publish
ed in a city Of the size of Great
Falls receives them, as the expense
is heavy, including telegraph tolls
between Great Falls and New York
besides heavy cable tolls and other
expenses shared by the syndicate.
These special dispatches from Par
is, London and Berlin appear in
every Sunday issue of The Great
Falls Daily Tribune and we trust
they are read with interest by our
readers. They form not unim-
portant part of the effort Of this
newspaper to give its subscribers a
metropolitan newspaper equal to
any newspaper published in the
northwestern or Pacific coast
states.
We call special attention to the
article from Andre Tardieu in last
Sundays issue because he deals with
the coming disarmament conference
in Washington and doubtless rep
resents the view Of the French del
egates to that conference. The
reader will note that he is of the
opinion that European sentiment at
that conference will be divided, and
that subjects not mentioned in the
formal program will come up for
discussion. What Mr.. Tardieu evil
IDENTIFY means if he spoke right out
in meeting, in the brutal Anglo
Saxon manner, is that England and
France do not see things through
the same spectacles and their inter-
ests are opposite in many respects.
What he says is:
"The European continent also
has special common interests which,
though doubtless reconcilable with
the interests of maritime powers,
nevertheless are special, as the war
proved. I regret to say that despite
this, the continent will present a
divided front at the conference.
For two years now, France should
have been preparing to organize
and consolidate these interests. But
neither Millerand nor BRAND even
attempted it. The peoples which
suffered at the hands of Germany
and Austria surely have common in
terests which would have been easy
to discover. Their agreement on
certain definite principles would
immeasurably strengthen European
peace. Moreover, neither Great
Britain nor the United States could
take the slightest umbrage at such
an agreement, for it would have
peace as its object and peace is
the object of the Washington con-
ference. It would have been a
splendid thing if Europe had real
lied such an organization before the
conference. However, regrets
won't help now. The best one can
hope for is the adoption of such a
plan in the future. Among the
problems to be raised is one which
dominates all the rest. What is to
become OF that mass OF unrest
reaching from the Rhine to the
Pacific, including an unrepentant
Germany, bolshevik dictatorship,
and Chinese anarchy? The con-
ference solutions will be fragile
and precarious if hundred millions
between the Rhine and the Pacific
threaten those democratic nations
who 50 recently saved their liberty
from an aggressor. The public is
ill-affected about the program Of
the Washington conference. like
to hope that each nation will bring
a carefully thought-out plan, not
only giving a comprehensive view
of interests at stake but full tech
nical data. Our Anglo-Saxon
friends, thanks to their geographical
situation, have a common lack Of
deep concern over land boundary
questions which sense had awaken
ing in continental peoples by long
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