The Washington herald., 1922-09-18


cies the danger of war will be in
mistaken beliefs. The world will
be the gamer by the change. for.
while there is no human way to
prevent a people from having an
heart. there is human way to
prevent a people form having an
erroneous opinion. That way is to
furnish the whole people. as a part
of their ordinary education. with
correct information about their re-
lations to other peoples. about the
limitations upon their own rights,
about their duties to respect the
rights of others. about what has
happened and is happening in in
ternationsl affairs. and about the
effects upon national life Of the
things that are done or refused as
between nations: So that the peo-
pie themselves will have the means
to test misinformation and appeals
TO prejudice and passion bsfed up
on error"
Tnrdieu Discusses Frances Role.
Andre Tardieu takes up in turn
the various specific problems fac
ing France today-"France," as he
calls her. "peaCe-lovinE and iso-
lated" He concludes:
France must frankly play the
part which history and geography
alike have set her. and which
make of her. in this isthmus where
nature has placed her the con-
Meeting link between two worlds
and two civilizations. In this same
frank and fair spirit she must put
the Anglo Saxon nations on their
guard against the temptations with
which the pride of their riches
might inspire them.
"In old and impoverished Eu-
rope we at times get the impres-
sion that the dollar and the pound
sterling would like to rule the
world. In London as in New York
people flatter themselves that they
renounce all impcrialistic designs
But there is an imperialism OF
gold. a hegemony of banks. which
is quite as perilous as military or
political imperialism. DO not let
continental Europe ever get to
think that YOU believe you can
control her by money: she would
revolt against this yoke.
'Anglo-Saxon business men made
mistake when. after the armis-
tiCe. they insisted upon an i'm
mediate return to free competi-
ton. with the inevitable destruc-
tion of close solidarity. because
quite enormously they believed the
European consumer would be cap
able of absorbing their over-pro.
duction. They may again find
themselves wrong If they think
that 4hn,. L. 4
because of their gold reserve and
their favorable exchange. Their
first mistake resulted in a plethors
of stocks and in an unempIoy
ment crisis which still continues
Their second error might well
cause between its victims. whoever
they might be. unforeseen alliances
from which no one would really
! benefit.
Must Have Cooperation.
France has never clearly enun-
ciated the ideas which am here
defending. and our successive gov.
eTnments incurred a grave respon.
sibility in not having dared to pro-
claim them. In consequence. we
have been living in the dark. and il
you have often misunderstood us
YOU have the right TO say that we
have always given you poor ex-
planations. NJ. Millerand came to
grief by entering into dangerous
bargaining with Lloyd George
without having first laid down GER
Vulnerable judicial reservations. A
Eriand indulged in nonchalant i'm
provisations. all the more serious
because of the irresponsible char
acter of his chief assistant. NJ.
Loucheur: NJ. Poincare intrenches
himself behind negations and in
Vulnerable judicial reservations. A
great many Of US think that this
cannot go on and that France will
find her policy successful only when
it becomes positive and con-
structive. and when II is presented
clearly to those who are to CO.
operate in carrying II forward.
In order that the world may re-
gain its equilibrium France must
have the cooperation of those who
fought by her side. Rut Great
Eritain and the United States will
make no lasting progress in Eu-
rope without the cooperation of
France. A minute explanation in
the interest of a thorouEh agree
ment becomes. then. the duty of us
all. To fulfill this duty one must
escape from the habit of thinking
that ones own difficulties are worse
than those Of ones neighbors. An