The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07

do not realize that all this is an elections film preliminary to the British parliamentary elections They are being led to think of him as ready for any generosity towards Germany at the expense of France even though he does not suggest re- turning our ships and our colonies.
 Imagines Itself Wise
 All Europe. imagining herself very wies, dislikes to be reminded of facts. It does not realize that the thunder and lightning. the sound of trumpets and flutes to which it has been lis tening for the last four weeks all form the introduction to the British elections. The gigantic apparatus set up at Genoa. where delegates from three dozen states have spent a hun dred million marks on their garden party and Vanity Fair which might better have been expended in feeding the crowds of starving children of Europe, is failure. None of the great economic problems are any nearer solution than before 1t met, although this. naturally, is not ad- mitted by the delegates or the press choir leaders. for who likes to con- fess that nothing useful is being ac- complished by corporation to which ones self belongs?
 Only one person can look back on the last 30 days with satisfaction That is Lloyd George. For him Genoa Is California wherein he is grind ing out the film for his next cam paign. In the last film he appeared as David who slew Goliath with his sling and proclaimed "The Kaiser must hang. Germany must pay until all of the losses of the allied and as- sociated nations have been compen- sated." But now the labor party and the whigs will hear David the ten der psalmist whose only care Is world peace and universal happiness
 Northciiffe Press
 This scene couldn't have been staged to easily in Great Britain where he would have encountered the real tories and the opposition of the powerful Northcliffe press and the Morning Post. The British empire is experiencing the greatest trade crisis In it's history; it has two mill lion unemployed; it suffers under a frightful burden of taxation, the un- rest in India is increasing; the costly unsuccessful effort to establish a British califate over Mecca and Medi- na; the call for Zaglul, England's enemy in Egypt-in short the whole empire is like a wornout dress which, so soon as mended in one place. breaks out in another. Such a na- tion is not easily persuaded to re- elect the government which seems to be responsible for all this. But with the whole world as an auditorium i; with the worlds press as an orches. tra, director with dynamic accom- plishments can hope for much greater effects.
 With thousand voices from all countries proclaiming him their grand master, his native land. flat tered by his glory, will reflect be- fore letting the world favorite fall. And America, England's peace loving creditor, will be friendly toward the man who so cleverly acts like real istic business-like Woodrow Wilson, and with white hair flowing. poses as the world peace maker.
 Lloyd Gearxe Heard
 He alone is being heard. It Is monologues not dialogues. not a con- ference but conferencier who al lows nobody to be heard but himself and who frowned when Dempsey was cheered by 5000 people in Berlin. Because Jack, the First, conquered the Frenchman. Carpenter. which. however. does not guarantee he could do likewise to Foch. The British premier also Is reckoning on the ha- tred toward France caused by the latter's Rhine and Washington poii- cies. As the only survivor of the big four he Is responsible for the treaty of Versailles but he treats 1t like>an ill-born child or stranger. He knows no reasonable Frenchman wants the Ruhr occupied and that Foch ad- vised agaoinst 1t but he talks as ii Premier Poincaire in his speech wherein he only demanded the treaty's execution and moral rather than military persuasion used, wal conjuring up war perils. He prob ably thinks England must be grate- full to a statesman who prevented France getting iron, coal and steel from Lorraine, the Saar and the Ruhr, thereby becoming industrially strong.
 In Germany David with his harp is as popular as David with his sling was hated. He is considered Ger many's lord protector. The fact that he declared the treaty of Rapallo un- fair and disloyal does not prevent Rathenau singing him the same praises he formerly sang to Wilhelm,