The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-04-23
RUSSo-TEUTON COUP CREATES
NEW COALITIONS, SAYS SIMONDS
Condition Resulting From War Has Passed,
He Declares-France, Poland, Czecho-
Slovakia and Rumania Threatened.

Is striving TO get the recognition
be expressed in terms of an inter-
national loan.
It Is equally clear that IL France
and Germany alike there is an
agreement on the fact that repara-
tions can only be dealt with on the
basis of another international loan.
The single hope remaining in most
French minds of the collection OF
any substantial PREPARATIONS rests
upon the vague trust that in some
way Germany will issue and the
United States will absorb vast
amounts in bonds. thus TRANSFERRING
from French to American shoul-
ders the task of collecting repair.
lions from the Germans.
French Ready to March.
I wish I could make it clear the
extent to which the French public
mind at this moment is disillu-
stoned. smbittered and hardened by
the recent progress of events There
has been and there remains an inn
preston in Washington that this
moral isolation of France will in
the long run bring about the sub
mission of the French. But you do
not have to stay in Paris half an
hour to perceive that the real eff
feet Is just opposite. France, in
my judgment. is getting ready NOR
ally, IL not militarily. to act for
herself. to act against Germany and
to use the force which is now in
her hands and is approximately ir-
resistible.
The truth is. as ! have said, that
the European situation is brought
about because every continental
nation is physically bankrupt. be-
cause where cooperation and conf
dence between all the countries
represents the sole. and single ave-
nue. of escape. Cooperation and
confidence are more totally lacking
than at any moment since the ar
mistice. If one could conceive that
Lloyd George. Poincare. Facta and
Tchitcherin as we'll as the prime
ministers Of various lesser powers
could get together and agree on
program of cooperation. then the
almost inevitable consequence OF
such agreement would be the Sc
ries of political uprisings in each
parliament and the overthrow Of
each OF the prime ministers.
ONCE"neIns
The brutal truth of the situation
In Europe at the moment is that
the political interests and expecta-
tons of the individual countries so
completely dominate everything
else that the best the leaders can
do is to seem to do something, to
hold a conference, which gives the
outward evidence of action, but in
reality does nothing.
You hear nothing more constant
ly In Europe than talk about an in
ternational loan. Russia wants one.
Germany wants one. France wants
oe. Italy wants one. But in no
country do you see any real evil
dence OF the adoption of a policy
which alone would make such a
loan possible since America must
supply the money IL there is going
to be any successful international
loan.
The thing that 1t is dificuIt to
describe to the American audience
Is that the Genoa conference is a
political device, a political per-
formance. devised to save the po-
sition of several OF the prime min
listers. But in advance everything
has been eliminated from the agen-
da which might in the smallest
measure contribute to bringing
struction in Europe. To reopen
trade with Russia is a matter of
politics in England and in Italy.
No Trade In Russia.
There is not any sensible man in
Europe who believes that the re-
opening of the Russian market,
either with or without the recog-
milton Of the Bolshevistic govern
ment. will or can change the real
economic situation in England or
In Italy in any early time. But
II is necessary for the Italian poll
iticians and the British politicians
to confront clamorous celebrates
with some physical sign of prog
ress. II is necessary to do some
thing. even if that something Is in
reality nothing.
The fundamental evil of the sit
uation in Europe today is not even
economic. bad as the economic sit
uation is. 1t is found in general
suspicion which divides the French
man from the EnElishman and Ital-
ian. 1t divides the German from
the Frenchman. a suspicion which
is reproduced in the relations be-
tween the smaller countries. such as
Hungary and Euma mia. Bulgaria and
JuGo-Slavia. Greece and Turkey.
SeInshness Chief Evil.
One might conceive that the rep
Tesentatives of these countries IL
they were freed from their politi-
cat chains. might find a basis of
agreement II II were only for a
limited period. but It is not possi-
bile for any one Of the prime min
listers of any one Of these countries
to escape from the domination of
his own domestic politics, or from
the emotions and prejulices of the
party to which he Is responsible.
The fall of BRAND should have been
a clear evidence to the whole world
of the actual state of affairs in Eu-
rope. Today you have in reality a
number of wars in Europe, each of
which is promoted by a Parliament
in which national jealousies, rival
ries and selfish interest are the con-
trolling facts.
This is what is important in the
situation today in Europe. This is
what led every observer, in ad-
vance of the gathering of the con-
ference. to forecast its failure.
This is why no subject which has
yet been raised could in the
slightest degree contribute to any
real reconstruction. You have ac-
tually a condition of war. not a
condition Of peace, in Europe, or to
speak more, exactly you have
condition of many wars. They are