Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-26
HANDS OFF,PAR|S
TEMPS TELLS j. S.
Newspaper Irritated at Report
Of Hoover Board, Which Il
Calls Puerile
FRENCH PRESTIGE WANING

epecidl Cable Dispatch. Copyright. 1898
Paris. Jan. 26.-"Don't butt In on
eur financial affairs, but lend us NJ;
more money to prevent European
hscal smash, which you fear: other.
wise no ono will ever DC paid" is the
crux Of an editorial in the semi Off.
cIal Temps last night, commenting Bit
terly on the Hoover Commissions con-
cluslons.
"If any one wishes 70 remedy Eu.
ropes chaos, capital must be loaned to
the nations on the continent tho
newspaper comments. THE Hoover
Commission itself recognized that the
United States possesses too much gold.
A part Of it should BE- consecratGd 10
foreign loans.
.'The United States should have
nothing to say about the reparationa
demanded from Germany. because she
preferred to ignore the repurations
clauses in the treaty of Versailles.
.'She has no more a right TO discuss
the armaments of the European nations,
since she insists upon remaining out
side The League of Nations, which u
President of the United States himself
conceived to limit the risks OF war, as
well as afmnnlGnts.
Commissions Findings "Puerile"
The Hoover Commissions entire find
ings are then rejected as puer!lc by
this statement:
s'If the conclusions embodied in the
document could he submitted to an in
ternational court OF justice we arc con-
yinced that they would be Immediately
thrown out.
Then, after waning tho United
States 10 keep out European affairs,
the Temps admits that tn" sole solu-
tion of *he difficulty is loans to all tho
needy nations.
"What is necessary, it says, rs
an arrangement assuring the allied
creditors, as we'll az the German debt
ors, credits. without which the creditors
cannot wait for payment and without
which the debtors can never recover
their full capacity for earning and pay
ing"
The b'ame for the inability to reduce
The French Army is laid 70 the United
States for refusing to ratify the Wilson
Clemenccau guarantee treaty, although
the Temps forgcts that Premier Poin-
care now rejects similar alliance
which Prime Minister Lloyd George
offers, since the original Anglo French
pact was inyalidated by Americas non
ratification.
Partly Our Own Fault"
sPartly our own fault" seems to
summarize the comment OF the few po-
litical writer's who in today's midday
newspapers take UP the subject OF the
French loss OF prestige in the United
States. Poor handling of Frances for
= aivn affairs is hold 10 be responsible for
much Of the observable trend of current
American opinion. Philippe Mllet, in
the Paris Midi, for instance, says:
1--WE pass for good, honest people,
but without political horizon. with
out generosity, without confidence in the
future. This is partly our fault. We
have shown in most conferences only O
negative policy, and this will probably
be the case again at Genoa. We vii
continue 10 play the recalcitrant school
boy who has 10 be pulled by the ear,
instead of courRgeously heading a dem
ocratic movement
Mayor Herriot, Of Lyons. in J. 'Infor"
nation likewise recalls the French pco-
pie to common sense" remarking:
"Never since the armstiCe has there
been such confusion in our foreign re-
lations. Let us recognize the fact that
our country is enveloped in suspicion
that gravcly harms our interests. par.
ticularly our commercial interests.
''At the time Of the victory there we're
no lyrics adequate TO sing our praises.
Today we are consigned 10 the dogs.
Even America speaks harshly to us.
In La Nictoire Gustave Herve Ia
ments the American attitude, but with
out holding France responsible for it.