Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1922-06-29

send delegates to take part in pour
parlers, beginning June 26. i.
First the attitudes Of Great Britain
and France must be harmonized. At
present these arc Numerically OPP
posed. The British want Europe to
forget the war; to do away with inter-
national debts; to conciliate the van
pushed states and make concessions
to them; to jolly soviet Russia; and
generally to base the new Europe
largely on economic interests and COM
pei the smaller states to enter into
agreements accordingly. The French,
as DESTROYS as the British for peace
and stable conditions, believe the war
cannot be forgotten; and that interna-
tional obligations should be fulfilled as
far as possible. They want the new
order maintained by physical force
and the alliances REINFORCED and
gradually extended to include all Of
Europe. AS for Russia, they insist, as
they did Mt Genoa, that suitable
guarantees must be supplied by the
soviet government, and the memoir
andum Of May II withdrawn before
official relations are renewed.
1t is probable that a proposal will
be made to Russia that a commission
be permitted to investigate economic
condition there. If they maintain their
present attitude, this will likely be
rejected. The bolshevik leaders are
quite unyieldlng, asserting that their
attitude at The Hague will be the
same as at Genoa, and that the only
possible concessions to foreign capital
will be on the basis of the. recently
enacted laws governing private
property. Their publicity man, Karl
Radek, said the conference at The
Hague would prove hindrance rather
than help, and continued:
IF we are not to consider the dec
larations of Hoover and Hughes and
the memorandum of Poincare as empty
threats, what they ask before the pour
parlers with Russia is Russia's with
lrawal of the memorandum Of May II
in which the principal position of rus.
STA was expressed.
"1'he Russian government Is not in
such low position as to allow itself
to be treated with contempt either by
France or even the United States,
without whose economic cooperation
the economics Of the Russian state
cannot be re-established. BY her
famine relief America has gained some
sympathy in Russia, which she is
going to forfeit If she wishes to play
the role of dictator toward Russia by
forcing upon her such base demands
Despite her poverty, Russia will en-
ter into relations with foreign coun.
tries only on the basis of mutual es
teem."
What strange inversion of ideas
In that allusion to America and the
famine relief!
UNNECESSARILY the German repara.
~ lions question will intrude Itself
in the present conference, and the
friends Of France are hoping that she
will present definite plan in this
regard. Germany has paid the June
installment, but cynically says, as tc
the sums due in July and thereafter
there Is no likelihood that we car
I! pay them, and what are you going tc
/ do about it?"
J Austria is attracting more sympathy
than any other Of the former enemy
states, for obvious reasons. Her rulers
are calling for material aid, which
they say must be extended to save
the country from bolshevism. Already
France has agreed to make large
loan to Austria. - III
4 GHME and Peru, through thel,