The New York herald., 1922-04-19
LONDON PRESS SEES
NO PERIL in TREATY
Gazette Notes Benefit if 1t
Brings France Down to
Realities.
RUSSIA ONLY GAMER
Warming Sounded, How
ever. That Allies Won't
Clear Off Slate
times RAPS PREMIER
times RAPs PREMIER
N0rthcliffe Talks of Amateur
Diplomacy and Alone
Scents Disaster.

Special cable to THE New YORK. HERALD
CCpyight, 1927, bp THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau, X
London, April IL.
From a division of opinion almost
exactly along distinct political lines
expressed yesterday morning the Lon
con press now is generally attempting
to put the best face on the Russo
German denouement in Genoa. The
Northcliffe papers are the exception.
and these continue to blame Lloyd
Georges amateur diplomacy and pre-
dict disaster. The Lloyd Georgian
Chronicle. which alone gave hopeful
turn yesterday morning, continues in
the strain of the equally Governmental
STANDARD and the Pdu Mall Gazette,
declaring there is little material of inn
portance in the treaty and that all
now depends on the answer the Rus
sian delegates will give after consulta-
ton with the Moscow Government.
THE Germans pocket no obvious gains
by signing. says the Chronicle. such
gains as there are so 10 the Russians
whose new diplomacy has shown its
might agree to clean the slate because
she has nothing else to give. but the
Allies won't because they are in very
different position-they hold In their
hands the main possibilities for Rus
sia's economic revival. Behind this fact
the clever Soviet diplomatlsts cannot go.
They will not get much help from the
treaty with Germany unless they also
conclude treaties with the western.
Powers such as would bring up Western
capital at the back OF the German mid
dleman."
Treaty Is Welcomed.
The Westminster Gazette with the
DasIu Neirs and the EDsniag Star, Its
Wee Free colleagues. welcomes the
treaty as bringing the Genoa conference
and particularly France down to reali-
ties The Westminster Gazette says:
''rhe fact Is Germany and Russia are
two OF the leading Powers OF Europe,
yesterday and tomorrow II not to-day
land an attempt to treat them as out
txstsNis Nboiifid to end in disillusion.
The bombsheil has destroyed the Su-
preme Council. but II II has brought
allied" Europe to reason we have no
need for regret"
The DaHy Ne,rs says The two grave
arguments against the treaty are the
manner In which Il has been sprung on
the conference and its apparent exclu-
siveness. The first may be merely stu
pidity born OF rather Grass cynicism.
There are plenty of parallels in recent
annals both Of Berlin and Moscow. The
second objection Is much more serious.
IL applies equally to any exclusive agree
ment between any group OF Powers In
so far as they are exclusive they are an
attack on the spirit OF the League OF
Nations and permanent menace to the
peace of the world. This Is intolerable:
II Is n crime against. humanity, whether
.perpetrated by Germany and Russia or
England and France. and II the incident,
as it may possibly. leads to the recog-
milton OF that fundamental truth in
quarters hitherto blind 1T will have been
worth the alarm occasioned in this nerve
rscked world
According to the Morning Post Ger
many and Russia have regained com
plete diplomatic freedom and are ready
to use that freedom to make arrange
ments entirely independent of the treaty
OF Versailles or any other allied settle
ment They have sealed the friendship
which brought Lenine to Russia. which
broke the strength OF the Russian
armies. sapped the moral strength of
the Russian people. almost ruined the
allied cause and ended in the betrayal
OF Brest-Litovsk. The one real menace
10 the peace OF Europe. Is the combina-
tion OF Russia and Germany"
The Post urges Great Britain and
France speedily to end their differences
and to reach a complete understanding.
which alone. can maintain peace in
Europe, for II they remain divided the
new treaty becomes menace pregnant
with war"
Atfacx ON Lloyd George.
The Times continues It's attack on Mr.
Lloyd George as being responsible for
the embroglio. II tears 10 pieces the
note protesting to Germany. comparing
It to comic opera prince who ordered
the Prime Minister ITO drop q sharp
note TO the COW" when the COW ate the
royal cabbages. 1t asks why the Boil
sheviks are not slsy barred from the
conference like the Germans
The Pail Mall Gurcfte says: "The
new treaty makes Russia In effect a
German colony and completes the work
the Boishevits began In 1917. IL reports
are correct that Japan Is seeking n
rapprochement with the Bolsheviks the
Allies will be face to face with some
thing very much like an alliance be-
tween Germany. Russia and Japan In
which the German militarIsts viii pull
all the wires"
ROME. April rs (Associated Press) -
Signing OF the Russo-German pact Ia
commented by the Tempo to-day as IA
bitter surprise" the newspaper adding ::
There liz no doubt that the Russians
had won general sympathy. but anxious
doubts now arise about them. Who can
hinder the Germans from exploiting their
advantages as the first great Power to
recognize the Soviet as Government de
Iure? N the Entente Is unable To ex-
clude the Germans from Russia Il must
accept recognition de jure.
THE dose II bitter one for all the
Entente DELEGATIONS, including that OF
Italy. which profoundly disapprove the
Russo German action"
Former Premier Nlt.i's newspaper. III
Pdese, says the treaty embarrasses the
Entente on the question OF both Soviet
recognition and German indemnities. II
does not condemn the pact outright. but
Il adds
"our nationalists will ind this pact a
soully devised weapon brandished against
the Entente policy. a disloyal. III advised