Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-23
By MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Publicist
Special Cable to The Great Fails Tribune
Copyright 1922, BY The Great Falls Tribune.

Copyright, 1922 BY The Great Falls Tribune.
Berlin. April 22.-One can well
imagine the towering rage of DaviG
Lloyd George when the RussoGermar
trade agreement was published al
Genoa Lloyd George felt that he
had the Genoa conference in the palm
of his hand. and that he was dealing
with a lot Of pygmes
Lloyd George has been desirous OF
less German competition with British
trade, and that Germany should be the
favored nation when the Russian mar
ket opens naturally annoys the little
Weshman.
Lloyd George is a great man for
small methods. He still believes his
country can be helped by artificial
remedies like the last reparations COM
mission note demanding increased tax
alton in Germany, thus making Ger
man production more costly and pre-
venting Germany from profiting by the
temporary advantage of exchange de
probation.
Had Plan Laid Out
The prime minister Of his gracious
majesty in Genoa is like boy wanting
to make see-saw from a swinging
beam but never getting the right bal
ance because of lot of clumsy boys
climbing on the other end and swinging
il violently. The plan of repeating
the Washington conference of last win
ter in Europe this spring was his idea.
Because he is accused of having yielded
Britain's naval supremacy rs well as
British rule over Ireland and Egypt,
and because he is accused of granting
autonomy to the dominions. thus de-
priving the empire of its leaves like
an artichoke and because he is accused
of furthering bolshevist agitation
through intercourse with the Russians.
Lloyd George wanted to introduce a
few well drilled bolshevists at Genoa
and show his adversaries that his plan
of export revival was success. This
revival was to end all unemployment.
the victims of which are costing the
state more than is beng PAID IN war
pensions.
Glass by Himself
An international conference. how
ever. is not like Charlie Chaplin
sketch. played almost alone. or with
unable to find a partner anything like
his match at Genoa.
Lloyd George at Genoa has felt him
self a world champion competing with
beginners who could only assert them
selves successfully in large numbers
NJ Barthou of France. author of a
book on Mirabeau. has had no expert
ence in international negotiations on
large scale Yet he represents the only |
other great power which compares |
with England in Europe today. |
Despite her treaties with Belgium |
and Poland and her good relations with !
the little entente, France has different |
interests from the other conference /
Shn MT tn
quickly as possible the eighty to ninety |
billion francs advanced to her people |
on account Of expected German repa
rations, the need of which is upsetting
her budget. France. however, is self
supporting and needs few imports. while |
her exports mainly are luxuries in
which she has virtual monopoly:
Seek Different End
With small population she does
not fear unemployment or other con-
sequences forced by big German ex
ports.
England. however, wants to see.
Germany's exports virtually stopped by
n high cost of production.
1t is quite evident now that the
Genoa conference was held at this time
because the Russian question could be
postponed no longer. Lenine's cruelty
frank confessions at the last COM
munist congress are more important
han anything the learned Tchitcherin
may say or do at Genoa. The Russian
premier SAID:
communist pride must not prevent
us from realizing that we do not know
how to govern. Some features of our
are unbearable Every
clerk Of large firm understands eco
nomics and trade better than some men
we have selected for appointment. The
communists who fought bravely at the
front and rsked their lives a hundred
times for the revolution, together with
thc Hungarian peasants. will send us
10 the devil unless we soon begin to
provide them with the necessities of
life as well as the capitalists have done
IN the past.
Tradesmen, at Genoa
This extraordinary frankness fol- /
owed this previous sentence:
AT Genoa we are not communists. ;