The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-09
WRITER THINKS FRANCE SEEKS
 ALLIANCE
By FRANZ MUCK

BERLIN. Jan. s.-France feels :! lonely. < "La France" is afraid lest l the booty which she has grabbed dur i ing the last few years will be wrest- i ed from her by it's real owner, and that in that case Belgium and Poland will not afford her sufficient support. For apart from those two countries she has not a single friend left in Europe. Everywhere she has been "discovered.'
 l So Marianne goes abroad to look for her strong man." She thinks she has found him in Uncle Sam. 1 In Paris the only question now is whether France shall form liaison with Uncle Sam alone-if necessary even against the English neighbor- ar whether John Bull is to be re- tained as "lober" and is to be made more pliable under the whip of jeal- ousy.
 Early in the war the big news papers of the neutral munitions furnishing Dollarica published an ef- fusion which was promptly reprinted by the overjoyed Boulsvard press.
 Foreigners always fight for France" it read Why? There is only one answer: Because it's France. There is something about France which forces itself upon the imagination of the whole world and inspires it. Of all the peoples the French are the only ones that need no logical reasons or proofs in their behalf-it suffces that it is for France!"
 Afterward whole troupes of Amer ican clergymen of all denominations went to Paris and, in communication with the heads of French Protestant ism, solemnly celebrated the brother hood with the pious, Christian France against the satanic German empire, However the real threads of the ! woven by these strange servants of Christ, but by Ambassadors Herrick and Sharp and even more by the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, Berry-three gentlemen who from the outset be- Ilonged to the fanatics clamoring for the destruction of Germany and who even today are preaching the eco- homie "war after the war;
 Neither in America nor in France the so-called people are asked what they think about alliances and war The alleged national represent atives and public opinion are on both sides fabrications of the finan- cial oligarchy.
 France owes Wall Street a round tour billion dollars. A tidy sum, with the present status of the exchange. If Wall Street is expected to let the payments ride" for another term. then France must in return engage in some more American worship.
 England cannot and will not permit the preposterous. insane hegemony policy of France in Europe which is gambling with worldwide bankrupt cy. So France needs American pro- tection for the unhampered exploita- tion of the blue- white -and-red slave shop of Europe.
 The tension between America and Japan, England's indefinite policy in the Pacific and Frances new naval plans and colonial expansion, are counted upon by Paris to make the Fayafette Republic valuable ally for the Washington Repub]ic-and an ally who. of course vii have to be paid well.
 American is expected to maintain the French despotism and nigger-rule on the Rhine-in defense of the her itage of Washington, Monroe and Madison, who never could warn their countrymen. enough against "entang- ling alliances" and in spite of the sad experiences that America has had with the Wilson policy.