The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
Europe To-day Tale Of Two Cities
 As Different As Night From Day
IrreconciIabIe Differences Are CIaShing at Cannes as Be- tween England and France. Treaty of Versailles Seems to Have Rolled Over and Died
Special Cable to The AEe-Herald Copyright. 1921. hy The Age-Herald)

able economic lHleTeSIS cAdsAlSu Ae London and are clashing again here at Cannes. The clash has marked an historic changing of European policy. In Paris objective students of politics say the treaty of Yer sailles has rolled over and died. At least it took to it's bed when Ger many wrote that she couldn't pay what she owed this month and be gan to sink rapidly when M. Briand after the London tet-a-tete witt Lloyd George, said Eve are in ac- cord" and everybody added the omitted phrase, "that there is no ac' cord"
 There is to be instead new policy of peace treaties. including a treaty between Germany and France guar anteeing the status quo on the Rhine a treaty Germany will enter as ar equal.
 The dream of Franeo-Anglo American alliances---a dream tha' was most assiduously dreamed--i' recognizably dead. There must, in stead, by a European pact between | former adversaries on a basis o' equality, by which the peace of Flu rope will be sustained and the marcf back to normalcy made possible, Thus frankly speak the liberals oi France who gain strength as France tastes the bitterness of her suddeI psychologist isolation.
 A Tale of Two Cities | Back of the misunderstanding IT 1 Europe today are the fundamental | differences between France and Eng f nf | perament. of aim and of conditions In a sense, the story of Europe-th' story of the Cannes conferences! a tale of two cities. Though the citiei are not only two and one-half hour apart. the tale of striking contras remains.
 i Walk through the streets of Lon | don, the saddest streets in the west ern world, crowded with men wh' 1 cannot find work, with proud mel i begging, ragged women and childrel l who yesterday were "comfortabl, off" and with all the hordes of thu slum folk forced down to ugly. bitter | pathetic misery by that mysterious giant called exchange.
 Motor over to Croyden, then, ant step into an air limousine; climl high into the air dropping old Lon don, vast waste of brick far down | Poud noisily-so noisily!-across tn channel and descend at the Pari terminal, where motors will whisl you into the broad boulevard of tn other city of the story.
 A Striking Contrast
 A great animation here. Even al omnibus is vivacious, gesturini creature in Paris. Boulevards broa' as field; trees, countless cafes. Bu | these are as they have been. Lool at the people; look for the faces O l men exhausted from seeking non | existent jobs, look for beggars. Bu you don't need to look There ar none. Almost literally none in al France. England has almost 2,000, 900 on the lists of wholly unem ployed; France has a few thousand twelve, think.
 Look at our devastated regions. said French writer to my friend. tn British correspondent. He replied There are more homeless people i London today than in the devastate regions"
 To compare Industrial aspects O | London and Paris Is not too precis | argument. perhaps, fin that the forme is essentially an industrial city an Paris is not: but both are the great est cities. the most representativ cities of the respective countries.
 France suffered terribly in the wa and is suffering now, but contempor ary misery. misery in world lik this one, is most decidedly relative Is France suffering now as compare to her ally, Italy? When you eros the Italian border into France yo, | receive an extraordinarily vivid i'm pression of leaving land of clinch ing poverty. social uncertainty an danger for one where there is socia security. prosperity.
 This is not being too hard oi France. It is none of it a question O sentiment. England for the sake 0 her existence must end her unem ployment crisis by somehow setting the currents of international trad flowing again. If France has a fan tastic national deficit her industria and social life is In the main func tioning as well or better than an other in Europe; and. add her critics she could cut that budget if she fore | sock her ambition for European dom ination and reduced her S00,o00 army