Evening star., 1922-04-30
BY HENRY ". BUNN.
following is brief summary OF
the most important news Of the world
i for the seven days ended April 49,

INHE following is brief summary OF
the most important news of the world
L for the seven days ended April 20:
The Genoa Conference.-I spoke last week
of the German reply to the note addressed by
the delegations of the great allies the little
entente, Poland and Portugal, to the German
delegation, Informing the latter that 1t
would be excluded from further conference
discussions on Russia, Ingenious. In
genious, yes. but not ingenuous-at least. IN
the opinion OF the allied delegates and their
friends of the little entente, Poland and Por-
tugal. who. therefore. indited another letter.
giving the lie circumstantial to certain Ger
man statements. and concluding thus: The
undersigned expressly reserve for their gov
ernments the right to declare null and void
any clauses in the Russo-German treaty which
may be recognized contrary to existing
treaties. The incident may now be regarded
as closed" So then. formally, the Rapailo
treaty has swum out Of the ken of the Genoa
conference. but to the onward optics; of
the conferees it remains very visible-menac-
ing; portentous. presaging war and ruin.
ing as basis for discussion the Russian reply
to the allies proposal of April Is. but finally
Russia Zone member Of each delegation reps
resenting the great allies. a Swiss. represent
sentins tie little aaa enteate1 Was annointed to
have not been exactly satisfactory. But
though the Russians have been extravagant
and absurd and impudeRt and loquacious be-
yond all precedent they have not been as in
consistent with themselves general press
comment would have 1t. In their formal reply
to the allied proposals they did not promise
Con condition of de jure acknowledgement of
the soviet government and a loan) return to
foreign nationals of their coniscated prop
erty and compensation for damage or loss
in respect thereof" as demanded in the allies
proposals. Instead, The Russian government
would be ready to restore to their former own
nr
served under the reservation that in the
shall be given to the ,epit}a1e &C ion
former owners"
This is evidently something quite different
from what the allies demand. 1t is not pro-
posed to restore absolute possession but to
restore the use only of property subject to
the principles and policies. of reconstruc-
ton." to the fundamental laws" and what not
of the soviet government-i. e., subject to re-
strictions that might be nullifying. AS for
claims of foreign nationals for recompense, let
there be no talk of mixed tribunals or a Rus
sian debt commission. institutions obnoxious
to Russian sovereignty. The bolsheviks are
competent" to determine whether such claims
The Russians formal reply of April 21 to
what the Russians are preparing to do in COM
pliance with allied demands, but what the
gether dubious 10 ppo%se Of
stresses allied recognition and an allied cash
loan Materials and manufactured articles on
credit will be welcome, of course but only if
consigned to the order of the soviet govern
ment. to be distributed by the latter, but what
is chiefly wanted is cash-lots Of it, money
in the red poke. gold in the Mucovite strong
box. The. Russians talk and talk (their OBJ
servations darting hther and thither aimless-
y. say the British. like the hzard), but no!
However much they may divagate and ex-
travagate and soar and plunge and caper and
cavort, they always come back to that point
the necessity. of a humping cash loan. The
subcommittee of seven replys that. however
they might wish to oblige. any cash loan must
be a modest one. for they have little cash
AS to credits. the disposition of these must be
subject to consortium of creditor nations
however the name may stink in Museovite
nostrils.