The Washington herald., 1922-05-28
SOVIET AT GENOA
NOT GIVEN SQUARE
DEAL, SAYS GIBBS
Need of Playing to Mos
cow Gallery Obscured
Its Real Purposes.
MUST HAVE CREDIT
Fate of World Hinges on Re
vival of Russian Trade,
He Declares.
MUST HAVE CREDIT
BY SIR PHILIP GIRRS.

LONDON. May $50 far from
giving new hope to the European
peoples and promising a new era of
peace and reconstruction. the Genoa
conference left behind a general
sense of alarm.
The struggle has revealed sharply
the extremely thin crust which COW
ers the red hot hres in the heart
OF Europe. The conflict between
sets OF ideas at Genoa resulted not
in victory for peace. but in a tenn
porsry truce. which in itself was a
public avowal that we are again
threatened with war.
Lloyd Georges supporters have
made out a good case for this truce
Of God. as he calls II, which he
brought back from Genoa as the
only fruit of his labors, and indeed
every fair-minded man and woman
should acknowledge the splendid
courage. patience and skill with
which that little David overthrow
the old Goliath of the war spirit in
Europe.
Nenewn Nureat ct wuFh.
But the plain man in the street in
France as well as England is dis
satisfied with that plan for a tenn
porary truce. On the contrary. he
is 6ismayed that any such truce is
necessary. He thought peace was
already made. Now he Is told Eu-
rope has been saved from fresh
war for a fey months. 1t is a cause
for uneasy, anxious, brooding an
ticipations of some second Arma-
geddon now being prepared for him
by secret and moving forces over
which he has no control, but Of
which surely he will be the victim.
The German Russian alliance
opens a new vista of horror. The
threat of invading Germany is re-
peated daily in the French press II
Germany defaults payment, per-
haps beginning a new catastrophe.
/ cannot help thinking Soviet
Russia hasn't been given a fair
deal. I say that not because /
have any sympathy with bolshe-
vism, but because l hate bolshevism.
and I would therefore like to see
the adoption of a policy which will
speed up its dissolution.
Played to Moscow Gallery.
1t wasn't sufficiently recognized
at Genoa conference nor by public
opinion outside that Tchitcherin had
to play to the political gallery In
MOSCOW, or rather to the party ma
chine, Just as Barthou and Lloyd
George had to play to theirs-they
still had pretended faith in COM
munistic ideals. whereas commun-
ism is already abandoned in Russia
to the extent Of IS per cent.
In return for that per cent of
their ancient heresy they were will
ing to come to terms with the rest
of Europe. II that had happened
peace would be more certain. For
example, they proposed the deinoo-
ilization of the red army in gen.
eral scheme for the pacincation or
Europe. That offer was immediate
ly opposed BY France. On what
grounds? Soviet insistence on Eu-
ropean loan of f200.00o,00o is
doubtless impossible, for reasons
which Mr.. Hoover had plainly
pointed out. No governments could
go to their people with such a prop
osition, But some international
scheme of credits Is not only pos
sible, but necessary IL the Russian
people are TO be given any chance
OF recovery.
Appeals TO U. g..
even venture to disagree with
Mr.. Hoover that Russian salvation
lies within herself and not from
without. It is impossible for Rus
sia to recover. whatever eternal re-
oonss~xed On Paoe Tsop.