The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-22

open to every trourhmau. who sccs
I'm it u new revelation of the oldest
and hittvrCst facts In French history.
lr the United Stntcs goes To Genoa
before the political situation iu
Eurupe ~ cleared up We shall b.
thrown violently against one Euro
pelu nation to serve the interests of
another just AS We we're at Paris
aud just ~ We have been In the re-
cent Washington conference n We
so To Genoa We shall be expected to
cancel the foreign loans and con
tribute additional money to the ne
storutlou ot European economic
conditions Europe has never re-
covered from the expectations
aroused 10y the Paris conference and
tu it1 own mind only temporarily
postponed 10y the unhappy tatc of
Mr.. Wilson Lloyd Gcorgc's scheme
for getting Europe nn its feet again
depends 900 the main upon the Hs.
sumption that the United states Will
furnish tho money the British viii
supply th, brains. and Germany viii
turn over The machinery.
Iiut the Hrlti~h scheme cannot
he realized ~ long ~ France re-
tHins her present attitude toward
Germany. That II why the Nash-
tngton conference British policy
successfully led MIR Hughes into
an attack upon France over the
submarine. Hs Lloyd George Ut
Parts pushed Mr. Wilson against
VI. Clcmcnccnu In nnif u dozen
different eases. VI. POinCHrc II
now going tn Iight Lloyd George
ana the chances are 10 to that
lie viii he beaten. IBnt the essen
glnI ssaTttnl0ta l..a ltR
makes compromises hc will tall
just the way his predecessor did.
There have been many ministers
i'm France since the end of the war
but there has been only one detinlt"
idea and that has survived every at
tempted modification. II may b"
that the present chamber does no,
represent the temper OF the French
people and that when n new cham
bcr is elected We shall have re-
vcrsnl Of policy But since tho next
election is two years Off this is st'll
a far cry, In the meantime, to sue
coed, NJ. poincarc must get som'-
thing more than u military guar
Rntoe covering a period when no
military attack is conceivable. Ana
he must avoid paying for such an
empty guarantee by reducing French
= .AiAllIF hhaANiHA w. i'''''a' 'N'''''
which most Frenchmen stIll believe
Germany can pay This In only an
other way OF saying that for the
time being France Is thinking In
terms OF reparations ana not largely
in terms OF a British alliance.
II Mr. Balfour had been ablo In
Washington with American assist
ance to get France to agree TO re-
ducc her army and consent not TO
build submarines the French po-
sition with respect TO Germany
would have boeu left such that
France would have needed British
alliance and would have had To pay
for H. but Mr. Balfour was not
successful France retains her army
intact and therefore Is not depend
eut upon the British army nf the
British alliance for her own security.
She has preserved her Independence
of action The American storm or
reprouch which has assailed France
as result Of the BRAND policy IN
Washington has been - mighty fac
tor in removing NJ BRAND FOR the
moment at least. But only to make
way for that man who has on TN
whole most conspiCuOusly advocated
the preseryatlon OF French inhe-
pendeuce Of action sover all the
period from Paris to Washington.
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