The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-28
Bv DAVID LAWRENCE.


By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Disnatch to The Reformer')
Copyright 1922.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Prime
Minister Lloyd George viii have to look
to American public opinion and not TO
the United States government for an an
swer to his plea for American ana 10
prevent European chaos.
Those in position of authority here
feel that the American attitude toward
the British prime ministers alarming
speech should be developed with suggeS-
ton from official sources.
No one doubts that Mr.. Lloyd George
is in the midst of a serious SITUATION anu
that the practical problem with Wnlcli
Fhrope is confronted involves crltlcal
set NJ circumstances for all concerned.
But that has been Europes problem
from the beginning-at least President
Harding has considered the problem as
While the British prime minister i'm
plores America to help, not necessarily
with physical force but with moral In
fuence one suspects that the Chlteu
States government, meaning in this case
Secretary Hughes and the other members
| Of tbe cabinet who have been developing
| American policy toward the Genoa con con
/ ference. believed as firmly today, as they
| did when the invitation TO attend tue
| conference was rejected, that Europe
| mnst sooner or later solve her own CRISIS
| and do something of her own initiative
without the mediation of cOunsels or
| Americans.
L. S. Will Wait.
There is to De sure a recognition oil
the fact that if matters do not get better
a world crisis may be preclpltated ahG
the whole face of things altered, SO much
SO that America might throw tradition %
/ the wind again as IN April 1gl'. bui i
inst as the United States waited two anu
one-half years from August, 1914, foi
Europe Ito solve her conflict, so would u
seem that America now under a Repubn
can administration would wait TOT puoli'
opinion to force government Intervention
in world disturbance.
somehow the gravity of the British
nrime minister's words does not strike
note of apprehension here. Faith IN TN
ability of European governments Z
| reach some kind of an understanding
among themselves has not been lost. i
Premier poincares go-lt-alone pohc
should lead TO extremes, European oplh
ion is still counted powerful enough =
bring France to reason. An Isolate
France is not regarded as likely TO OF
pose a combined Europe.
As for the meeting that has been calle
for the siguatories of the Versatile
treaty to discuss Germanys default o
. reparation. America has not been invited
While it is true that the United State
in the treaty of Berlin accepted the reT
aration clauses of the Versailles treaty
the feeling of officials is that America
stake in the reparation money is so sma
that any settlement arrived at betWee
/ European governments signatory to tn
Versailles pact will be acceptable to tn
! United States.
Will Not Mix on Boundaries.
The disputes about boundaries whIe
are arising as a result of the proposal
sign a non aggression treaty are not dl
| turbing American officials because II
/ United States has specifically refraine
from accepting in her treaty with &c
l many any of the boundary clauses !,
1 the Versailles treaty. Iheoreucal
America may be affected by the meetir
! 10 discuss enforcement of the reparatlc
l clauses of the Versailles treaty but &C