The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-26

Today II would be impossible to
exaggerate the bitterness which ex-
lists In Great Britain toward France.
At the present moment there are al
most two million Englishmen out Of
work wholly and there is in addition
a vast number who are working on
part time only. Estimates OF the
cost of unemployment TO the public
treasury OF Great Britain range from
$500, 100000 to 100000 an
nually. To this must be added very
large sums which are expended by
the various municipalities who have
10 contribute to the maintenance OF
those unemployed who are no longer
open to the benefits OF the national
fund. 1t Is not too much to say that
England is now spending $75O,000,-
900 annually in unemployment doles
10 those who are without occupation.
This staggering sum represents
sheer waste from an economic
standpoint. II is tax upon British
capital OF terrific proportions.
To get rid of this burden. to re-
open the factories and the mines In
what has become Great Brltain's s
devastated area II Is necessary be-
yond all else to restore the markets
OF the world and primarily the Eu-
ropean markets. Until Germany.
Russia and the succession states can
regain something OF the purchasing
power OF the years before the war
unemployment must continue in tho
British Isles, the strain upon the
British treasury will be extended.
and sooner or later millions OF Eng
lIshmen and women will be con-
fronted with the alternative of emil
grafton or starvation.
British Sure They're Right.
Now. to the British mind all this
hardship and danger might be ended
provided only British ideas were
applied TO the European situation
And as the first step In an applica'
ton of these ideas the British de-
mand the rehabilitation of the
larger part of the French army and
insist upon the withdrawal of the
French armies of occupation from
German territory. Despite all that
has been said to the contrary. the
British are not disturbed over the
so-called French militarism. They
are not afraid of the French armie,
in the sense that they fear tn,
French armies will he used to over
run Europe or TO attack Great Brit
ain herself. The British objection
to the French army As based upoI
the single fact that while France
maintains her army at its presen
strength she is able as she chooses
to resist the application of British
policy to Germany, to Russia, ant
TO the continent generally.
One of the main purposes in Brit
ish diplomacy when Mr.. Balfour anC
his associates came to Washington
was 20 enlist the United States. {,
persuade the United States to len,
It's great power to British ideas an,
thus bring about a demobilizatioI
OF the French army. Once thi
army was demobilized France woul
be obliged to accept the British idea
in the matter of the reconstructio
Of Europe. The British hoped a
Washington that our influenc
Joined to theirs would force tn
French to agree to a drastic reduC
ton OF their military establishment
Here, as at home, the British talke
about French militarism. 1t was
convenient and an easy line to tak'
But French militarism TRANSLATED
into terms of British enecessitie
means the French power to prever
the application of British policies I
Europe and above all to German
and Russia.
We know that British policy
was unsuccessful In i's attack on
the French army Mt Washington,
II was similarly unsuccessful in n.
effort to compel the French "a
consent TO limitation of sub
marine tonnage. BY contrast, II
was overwhelmingly successful IN
alternating American sympathy
from France and in establishing
in American minds the Engl 81
view that France was the barrier
to economic reconstruction In Eu'
rope and that In some fashion OF
othcr the French policy was dom
mated by militarism md Napol
comic conceptions. That Is, al
though British hopes wcr" frus'
lrated In Washington so far as Inn
nedite results were concerned, tho
british purpose 10 convince thu
United States of the CORRECTNESS
OF their view toward continental
conditions was successful, and to
day the United States sees France
through critical, IL not unfriendl!
eyes.
The British success in Washingto
however, has been measurably bi