The Washington times., 1921-11-04

power, at a time when the French are
hysterical about Germany, BRAND has
10 make a fierce enough noise TO keep
the Poincare Jingoes from throwing
him out of office.
BRAND Sure Of Seat.
To cool and observsnt Americans.
some OF the things that BRAND says
will inevitably seem foolish and also
dangerous. These things should be- in
tCrpreted in view Of the state Of
French opinion.
There Is not a chance in eight bill
lion OF BRAND being succeeded, II he
liz overthrown, by anybody more lib
cral than he. II he fails. he will be
succeeded by those who represent re.
lance on force. The military mind
will then be in full control.
To fight the strong-srm people, the
way psychology people, leader has to
be very shrewd. II we examine the
only man in Europe who Is even
shrewder than BRAND. the prime min
lister OF Great Britain, we see this
same principle at work.
In my opinion, Lloyd George
means. in the last analysis, 10 sup
port Sim Fein against Ulster, pro-
vided Ulster does not give uD her
claim to populations not in sympathy
with the controlling Belfast point Of
view. But he cannot do this until
he has jockeyed the situation around
so that II becomes manageable.
II we find Lloyd George in the
end leading Liberal opinion against
Rirkenhead, Churchill, Carson ire
Consilaoles, II will be because he has
gained time to educate British opin-
ion, to get Sim Fein to give up the
one point that he cannot grant. and
to give Ulster enough rope TO show
that she is the one standing In the
way of a rational settlement.
The same type of oportunisrn, II
you like that word, Is the character
istic of Brands policy. He knows
perfectly well that France Is silly TO
keep up the war mood He knows
that to use the armistice terms as
mere tricks to keep an offensive hold
on Germany is the most suicidal
thing that France can do.
Nobody better than he knows that
to keep up the kind of forcethiDk-
Ing that brought on the world war
Is the way to destroy Europe. and
notably the way to bring France her.
self to ruin. But II he had said these
things straight out he. would not
have been at the head of the French
government today.
Accused rs Radical.
His enemies fully realize the facts
that l have been laying down. They
persistently point out that ne used to
be a Socialist: that his staunchest
supporters today are the radicals.
In the usual imbecile slang Of the
world today they accuse him of be-
ing In substance n Red
No doubt BRAND will make us tired
rehearsing the wrongs suffered by
France. but he will not do with the
rhetorical emptiness to which Mon
sieur Viviani treated us a few months
ago He will do II to keep the Poin-
caire forces from throwing him out,
and he will be hoping all the time for a
| swing of French opinion in a more
constructive direction.
BRAND realizes that France would
have been ruined II she had secured
the Rhine frontier. even II for effect
he may talk about tho sacrifice Of
giving up that frontier.
He may talk about the danger OF an
uprising In Germany, but he will know
all the time that the German army is
not only one-eighth the size OF the
French, but is lacking In aeroplanes.
big guns, reserves, a general staff, and
faced on the other side by Frances
ally by a secret treaty, Poland, her.
self with a well-equipped and we'll
trained army Of six times the size OF
Germany's.
Like Lloyd George, BRAND is the
best type of statesman to be hoped for
in these daN OF reaction, fear and
decentralization. He is the type that
can outwit the militarists, by going