Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-20

ton at Lloyd Georges villa, but be-
fore the meeting was held the text
of the German-Russian agreement
was placed in their hands and they
had something more to consider.
Lloyd George and Louis Barthou.
both Shrug their shoulders over the
Russians, but agree in qualifying
the action of the Germans as dis
loyal. The conference met to deal
with the condition of Russian recog-
milton, and had been in session just
d week when the Germans concluded
separate agreement without re-
gard to the rest of the conference.
The allied experts, including repre-
sentatiVes Of Poland, Rumania,
Czecho Slovakia and Jugo-SfaVia, are
meeting this morning to draw up a
report as to whether the Russo-Ger
man agreement is in harmony with
the Cannes resolutions and the treaty
of Versailles. Later the allied dele.
cations will meet to consider a
course of common action.
To make matters worse the Rus.
slams have given the newspaper cor
respondents a communique address.
ed to the red army and navy ex-
planning the Russian stand at Genoa
for disarmament and peace at.
lacking the "capitalistic bourgeois
governments" particularly France,
and saying that they expect the peo-
pie of all countries to bring pressure
upon the capitalistic rulers to make
them cease opposing. disarmament
and peace. This document seems to
break another of the Cannes condi-
tons which forbade subversive prop
uganda.
It is necessary to make a distinc-
ton between the Russian case and
the German case. The Russians
have refused persistently to say
whether they really accepted the
Cannes resolutions. 1t is believed
that the allies must now insist upon
a definite answer without more de.
lay. and in case of refusal threaten
to rule them out of the conference
Germany had implicitly accepted
these resolutions, the fundamental
conception of which was that il
Russia also accepted and a general
agreement could be reached, then
Russia might be granted de jure
recognition.
May Change History
Some of the delegates now contend
that Germany by entering into an
agreement before a general agree.
ment was concluded has broken the
Cannes conditions. 1t may be re-
marked in passing that if, as seems
likely, the Russo-German agreement
has a political as we'll as economic
meaning, the whole European polit
icaI situation must undergo profound
changes, the outcome of which no
one can see. The Russians last
night seemed delighted at their
cleverness in making so much trou'
BILE.
Regarding the German motive,
opinions differ Some say that the
Germans have acted stupidity while
others maintain that they have made
an unexpected display of strength.
In any case the Preparations nego-
tiations which had been going on
propitiously in a sense not untaVor-
able to Germany will undoubtedly
now be greatly complicated IT not
rendered impossible. The British
are surprised chagrined, angry and
anxious; the French merely smile
saying quietly, I'VE told you So
FRENCH ARE ELATED
Wv En- EN fIIN 10 al OLANOh
PARIS, April 1S.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. 1.-THE dramatic stroke
of the Russians and Germans in con
| Guiding their treaty at Rappallo, the
news of which, incidentally. first
reached Paris by way of New York,
does not fill the French with conster'
nation.
Instead, there is a perceptible feel
| ing almost of satisfaction among the
newspapers supporting the national
bloc at what they consider distinct
hit against Prime Minister Lloyd
George, of Great Britain, and at the
same time the clumsy blunder OF
German psychology" which, as M
Saint Brice puts it in the Journal
will perhaps pull US out of the
! Genoa wasps nest"
TREATY IS DENOUNCED
BY LONDON PAPERS
LONDON, April 1S.-(By the AS
! ISOLATED Press.)-It would not be
easy to imagine any possible hap
pening at Genoa which could excite