Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-20
GENOA CONF ERENCE,
|MPER|LED BY PACT,
MAY Be DISSOLVED
Treaty Nay Divide Europe
Into Hostile Camps and Is
Bitterly Assaulted by French
and British

and British
ciated Press.l-The allies have decid-
ed that Germany, having effected
her own arrangement with Russia in
the treaty signed Sunday at Rapallo.
is debarred from further participa-
ton in the discussion of the condi
tions of the agreement between Rus
STA and the various other countries
represented at the economic confer
ence.
Under this decision Germany will
be excluded from membership in the
conference subcommission on Rus
sian affairs. A notice embodying
such exclusion was sent this evening
to the head of the German delega-
tion here.
DR.. Walter Rathenau, the Ger
man foreign minister, in statement
made to the Associated Press, pro-
tested against the exclusion of Ger
many as unfair. He declared the
treaty was not a secret one and not
a violation of the conditions upon
which Germany had entered the con-
ference. He had not yet decided
upon his attitude, he said.
PARIS, April 1S.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-A Havas dispatch
from Genoa this afternoon says the
allies are drafting note to the Ger
mans and Russians. notifying them
1t will be impossible for the Ger
mans and Russians to continue to
participate in the sessions of the
Russian affairs commission of the
conference if they persist in main
tanning the Russo-German treaty.
PARIS FOREIGN OFFICE
BACKS IT'S DELEGATES
PARIS, April 1S.-"Russia and
Germany, by signing a treaty at
Rapallo, have rendered the Genoa
economic conference impossible" ;iTl
official statement from the Quai
d'Orsay, the French foreign Office,
said today. r
The cabinet today approved the
action of Louis Barthou, it's chief
delegate, who telegraphed to Pre-.
mier Poincare he had decided not to
sit in further conferences with either
the Germans or Russians, iV view of
their "treachery."
Barthou was instructed to request
the allies to force annuiment of the
Russo~German treaty, it was author
itatively announced after the meet
ing.
AS an alternative II this is not
done, Barthou IS to. withdraw the
French delegation from the confer
ence.
A concerted allied move against
the new treaty was urged by cabi-
net resolution. Final instructions will
be sent Barthou after today's meet
ing of allied leaders at Genoa.
WASHINGTON is SURPRISED
AT SIGNING OF TREATY
WASHINGTON, April 49,
FTaught with the greatest political
significance, threatening all concilia,
tory attempts at a complete econom.
ic rehabilitation Of Europe, the Rus.
so-German treaty, sprung on the
Genoa conference like a bomb shell.
held the interest of officials and dip.
lomats at this capital today.
The treaty brings the dawn of
new balance of power in Europe
an economic and trade balance-andI
the political aspect of Europe seems
TO be recast in the opinion of Amer.
lean officials
France is threatened with defeat
In her aim to keep Germany down,
not only economically, but in mill
tary way. AS Paris points out, to-
day it is an economic alliance, to-
morrow it may be a military one.
England apparently is thwarted in
her trade and economic exploitation
aims in Russia.
These and other thoughts were
flashing across the minds of OBJ
servers in Washington today, as
each fresh dispatch from Genoa was
scanned With interest.
While state department officials
are studying with interest all news
about the development of the treaty,
no comment is as yet being made.
1t is not regarded that the inter.
ests of the United States are as
=
those of Europe.
However, it may be stated with
certainty that the United States will
take a hand in the situation if the
door is closed against American in
terestS, for it is fully expected that
this government will stand for the
"open door" in Russia as strongly
an(, SIS consistently aa it has in
Chtaa.
~ the sudden signing OF the
treaty, Germany has made a bold
move to get in or the ground floor"
in the economic exploitation of
Russia.
Germany has gained, potentially at
seast, a powerful lever to apply to-
ward lifting her Preparations BURDENS.
it is believed.
One of the provisions of the Russo
German treaty. is for the exchange
Of manufactured and raw materials
needed for mutual building up of the
two countries.
To Russia, the practical advan
tages of the treaty also are great.
She secures an economic. and trade
alliance without the restrictions and
conditions that the allied powers
sought to attach.
On the horizon there arises out
of this treaty the specter that world
chancellories have long feared-a
possible union of Germany, Russia
and Japan. But this would be doubt
full speculation, for Japan has just
broken off the Dairen negotiations
with the. Chita government of ST.
IBERIA, which is closely connected
with Moscow; and it would seem
that Japan's greatest future lay in
the path of cooperation with the al
lied powers.
FATE OF CONFERENCE
HANGS IN BALANCE