The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1922-03-26
The Last To Go

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CleHenceau. Wilson. Orlando.
Venizclos. Paderewski. and 20 many
others who sat IN front seals about
the Paris peace table hav" gone.
Lloyd George alone remains In
power. Whether he will go to-
morrow. next week or after tho
Genoa conference Is the question
with which all Britain is now
wrestling.
lie has held on because Of those
who had a hand In the Paris pro.
weddings he was easily the most
conHummate politician. He brought
more home than any other first
delegate aud gave his people n
pence which in the main satisfied
them There was far less dis
content with tho settlements in
Great Britain thnn In any other
allied country. ana there alone n
war coalition government is still
mnctiuning more than three years
aftcr the artuistice.
why h That coalition on the vorgn
Of di%Hsolutiou2 II can hardly he
said that the English are tired OF
LlOyd-Gcorgc's mastery oppor-
tunism Able and successful oppor-
tunism Is held In ~ high esteem
az ever at Westminster. The pre-
mior = methods have not changed.
His capacity for versatility in
craftsmanship Nv still unchallengsd.
But both the liberal and the union
Isl elements In the cabinet seem
willing to terminate n partnership
which has become irksome and 20
give British policy n new turn.
Apparently, Lloyd Georges two
chief errors Mt Paris have come
back at last to plague him. The
first was to 20 TO Parts with a pro-
gram, set forth In the khaki
campaign Of 1915. which pledged
him to make a peace Of retribu-
ton, but which even then he strong.
~ disbelieved In at times and which
he has since frequently gone TO OK
tromes to modify In execution.
This policy OF an unstabiiizsd peace
brought Great Britain into constant
and often acute disagreement with
France and In 80 far as II has boon
successful weakened the accord
among the major allies necessary
for a smooth enforcement Of the
treaties France has nj last baked
Mt hnnd-to-mouth revision Of tho
treaty OF Versailles and has cf-
fcctively Countered by attempting
To do the same thing with m.
treaty OF Sevres.
The Turkish settlement was the
premier second principal error
Great Britain hacked Greece. and
Greece ran off the course And In
backing Greece ard assuming Vir-
tuRl control Of Constantinople
Lloyd George aroused the Moslem
CaliphRte agitation which hns
shaken India and Egypt and is now
tmpcriling British influence all over
Asia.
A British journalist. explaining
Lloyd George the other day. wrote.
The little Welsh Hercules. in a
bowler hat. has developed into n
fanatical believer In the dignity and
glory Of the British Empire. Yet
many OF his liberal followers as
well aH the die hard unionists
are coming to think that his poll
cics have sapped the empires
strength. Natiunalism. racial and
religious unity and the deep human
passions which underlie them have
rcvoltcd AT the perhaps too inter
nntional-minded settlements at
tempted at Paris. These passlons.
excited In Turkey, Persia. India.
Egypt and ireland. as well a. out r.
side the empire. have had their
-repercuSsions tn English politics.
They have split the coalition aud
are now creating conditions which
make for the retirement Of the
great war premier. wizard OF no
many political crises and sole ur-
vivor OF the BlE Four olympiad
al Paris.