Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
SAYS GENOA MAKES
LLOYDGEORGE Joke
Premier Not Dealing With Lot
of Pygmies, Declares Max
imiIian Harden.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

BY Cable to The Star
BERLIN. April .22.-One can well
imagine the towering rage of David
Lloyd George when the Russo-Ger-
man trade agreement was published
at Genoa. Lloyd George felt that he
had the Genoa conference in the palm
of his hand: that he was dealing with
a lot of pygmies
He has been DESTROYS of less Ger
man competition with British trade.
and that Germany should be the ia
vored nation when the Russian mar
ket opens naturally annoys the little
Welshman.
Lloyd George is a great man for
small methods. He still believes his
country can be helped by artificial
remedies like the last reparations
commissions note demanding in
creased taxation in Germany. thus
making German production more
costly and preventing Germany from
proiting by the temporary advantage
of exchange depreciation.
TIE prime minister of his gracious
majesty in Genoa is like boy want
ing to make a see-saw from a swing
ing beam, but never getting the right
balance because of Il lot OF clumsy
boys climbing on the other END ana
swinging it violently. The plan OF
repeating the Washington conference
of last winter in Europe this spring
was his idea. Because he Is accused
of having yielded Britain's naval su-
premacy. as well as British rule over
Ireland and Egypt. and because he is
of inc
dominions, thus depriving the empire
of it's leaves. like an artichoke. and
because he is accused of furthering
bolshevist agitation through inter-
course with the Russians
Plan of Export Revival.
Lloyd George wanted to introduce
few well drilled bolshevIsts al
Genoa and show his adversaries that
his plan of export revival was sue
cess. This revival was to end all I'M
employment, the victims of which are
costing the state more than is being
paid in war pensions.
An international conference. how
ever, is not like Charlie Chaplin
sketch. played almost alone, or with
dumb figures The Welsh wizard was
unable to find partner anything like
his match at Genoa.
Lloyd George at Genoa has felt
himself a world champion competing
with beginners who could only as
sert themselves successfully in large
numbers.
NJ. Barthou of France. author of a
book on Mirabeau. has had no oN-
perienee in international negotia
lions on a large scale. Yet he repre-
sents the only other great power
which compares with England in
Europe today.
Despite her treaties with Belgium
and Poland and her good relations
q.
different interests from the other
conference members. She wants to
recover as quickly as possible the
eighty to ninety billion francs ad
vanced to her people on account of
expected German reparations, the
need OF which is upSetting her
budget. France, however. is self
supporting and needs few imports.
while her exports mainly are luXuries
in which she has virtual monopoly.
With small population she does not
fear unemployment or other conse-
quences forced by big German ex-
ports.
England. however. wants to see
Germany's exports virtually stopped
by high cost of production.
End of Delay Recognized.
1t is quite evident now that the
Genoa conference was held at this
time because the Russian question
.
cruelty frank confessions at the last
communist congress are more i'm
portant that anything the learned
Tchitcherin may say or do at Genoa.
The Russian premier said:
Communist pride must not prevent
US from realizing that we do not
know how to govern. Some features
of our administration are unbearable.
Every clerk of large firm under
stands economics and trade better
than men we have selected for ap-
pointment. The communists who
fought bravely at the front, and
risked their lives hundred times for
the revolution. together with the hun
CRY peasants. will send us to the
devil unless we soon begin to pro-
vide them with the necessities of
life as we'll as the capitalists have
done in the past
This extraordinary frankness fol-
lowed this previous sentence:
AT Genoa We are not communists.
but tradesmen. meeting trade with
other countries and trying to get the
best bargains. like all the Others
Did not this address give some ink
ling of, the Russo German agreement
long before 1t was sprung upon the
world?
The Bolshevists have been looking
for a bargain. Apparently Germany
was the first party willing to trade on
anything like equal terms.
Downright, 1go2.)