Evening star., 1922-03-05
nv MACMILLAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publiclst.

bH hAnDENs
Germnny's Foremost Publiclst.
By cable to The Star
BERLIN, March "A Standard Oil
tank cleaner may dream Of what he
would do If he were John d. Rookie
feller. So perhaps 1 may be permit
ted to mention what 1 would have
said IL I had been allowed to attend
the Lloyd George-Poincare tete-a-tete
at Boulogne.
Don't Groan, my readers. for You
have swallowed longer and duller
Congress speeches. Therefore, 1 pro-
ceed with my unstated statement
Ministers Of the allied and asso-
ciated powers: How long are you
going to continue jumping from rail-
way to motor car; from coal smoke
to gasoline fumes? This delightful
pastime has lasted for three years.
but all of your different conveyances
have not got us a step farther. Four
continents-the Washington confer
ence has brought temporary order to
the fifth-want to think seriously Of
the future and not waste their time
and strength in discussing the past
war and its consequences.
Future. Not Past, Issue.
"Clemenceau terminated his preface
to Andre Tardieu's book with the
statement: To make sure of the fu-
ture we must forget it ourselves. The
hammers and anvils are there. How
about our brawn?' But Clemenceau
maintains his retirement and does
not trouble about the Drawn or, the
hammers and anvils. He still consid-
ers the Versailles treaty, Of which he
was one OF the, principal authors, a
are welding the hammer If live
sparks do not fly from the anvil.
Whether he or the detractors of the
treaty are right does not matter prac-
tically. The anvils and the hammers
and the hands at work on them must
for the present be accepted as they
are.
1T is also senseless. gentlemen, to
moan because the United States does
not participate in these European
shrewd creditor naturally will keep
away as long as possible from meet
ings where he certainly would be
implored to abandon his demands for
payment: where, hardening to the
descriptions of misery and hardship.
he would be forced to play the part
of the rich man who, after the beg
gar's lamentations, calls to the serv-
ant. Throw this person out of here;
he's breaking my heart
From the Meuse to Moscow all
eyes are turned toward America.
France says: I can only pay you
when Germany pays me- Germany
says: L can only pay France If ! get
a big loan and I can only get big
loan from America Russia cries:
ting corpse will poison your world,
too
ignoring .Beggars' ChOruA"
TT is unnecessary, gentlemen. for
an American delegation to cross the
Atlantic to hear this beggars' chorus.
The great creditor should and will
lessen or abandon his claims when
before. Just now there is no market
for his goods in Europe. Conse-
quent1y, he has many unemployed.
as in England. This crisis will not
be helped by the mere shipping out
Of American gold into channels which
the creditor cannot control, but 1t is
also true that the worlds condition
will not be improved If the powerful
one merely turns his back and let's
things drift.
Both France and Germany mis-
Judge their positions. France, re-
membering her heroic sufferings,
imagines that her demands. because
they are just. must be quickly full
filed. Frances principal industrial
apparatus was destroyed and she has
struction. of which not a franc has
been reimbursed to her from the
vanquished foe, whose Industrial
plant is still intact. Therefore her
angry complaints are comprehensive,
but the vanquished should be requir-
cfviiians.e whereas the treaty annex
BURDENS him with pensions for the
crfppfes, the widows and orphans.
Objectionable demands, which the
besteyju in. the world cannot fulfill,
thatse entire Versailles treaty is
unjust and enforceable only by
might. But the rebuilding of north
ern France should be considered by
Germany as a moral duty. This can
lifted Dom the German republic and
II its people In public and private
1ffsg wHuld stop their frivolous waste
and live as BELTS a defeated debtor
nation.
Blame Not ON Single Nation.
"a single nation cannot be made
responsible for a world catastrophe,
take the place of productive ideas and
work.
Here. gentlemen. are your prob
lens:
FIRST, france must be secured
against any possible German refusal
to pay. or aggressive revenge, but
this should be done without the pres
ent expensive occupation and allied
commissions, which swallow Ger
many's surplus production, hinder
reparations and inf1ame hatred. The
strongest guarantee would be
Franco German customs alliance,
whose united coal, iron, potash, looms
and spindles rapidly would bring both
lands to prosperity. There should be
public discussion of this subject be-
tween Hugo SHINES and Premier
Poincare. preceded by frank expla-
nations from those whose patriotism
IL above suspician and whose eco
nomic authority is undisputed.
Second, there must be q rational
contemplation Of the entire European
economic situation, regardless of po-
littcA frontiers or national pretudicee.
The great creditor beyond the Atlantic
could turn amicably to a demilitar-
ixed, disarmed and economically
organised Europe and help solve the
third problem, which il the exchange
bugbear. If a bankrupt manufacturer
could only pay his creditors with tin
pans, and tho cheap supply of such
wares would spoil the market, the
big, wise creditor would buy the en-
tire lot and hold them until market
conditions permitted q gradual un-