The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
BRITISH BOLDLY
 BEHIND PREMIER
 AT GENOA FARLEY
Wlechman Will Receive 0va- ton When He Returns to London-French Blamed
 For Failure
By WILLIAM A. DIRU speclal Dispatch to The AEe-Heraid Copyright. 1922, by The AKc-Heraid)

Copyright. 1922, by The AKc-Heraid)
 London, May 20.-Some idea of the inflammable state of Europe may be gleaned from the fact that the guarantees of the mutual non-ag- gression pact now are phrased in months instead of in years.
 Lloyd Georges original non-aE- gressive agreement was to cover 10 years. The truce finally obtained op- crates barely nine months.
 Europe is not ready to agree to keep the peace much beyond the pres ent year of 1922. After that. what? The significance of these facts IS deeply impressng the British nation. They now are behind Lloyd George, so far as foreign policies are coa- cerned, almost to a man.
 This Is sharp change from last week. The people now believe that their premier sorked day and night at Genoa agaitst threats of war, de- termined to bring about lasting peace if possible, and finally obtaining by superhuman effort brief truce dur ing which new peace efforts can be put forth.
 When Lloyd George appears in the House of Commons on Monday CT Tuesday he will receive the biggest ovation of his career and the whole nation will echo it.
 Nation AppIauds Him
 The nation would applaud him if he were to say that France today was the biggest obstacle to peace. although he will not say 1t. Those who say that English public opinion is for the entente at any price are l. Iich ~f. | lt,, those whose sons fought, bled and died beside their French comrades. would regret an open rupture for sentimental reasons, but will not blame their government if 1t comes. Trey regard France, rather than Rus sia. as the main obstructionist at Genoa, and are mystified at Ameri- ca's apparent support of France.
 British public opinion considers Lloyd George as the great peace maker and France as a sabre-rattling nation. An impartial observer, how ever. cannot see 1t that way. Lloyd George was working for peace. but peace on British terms paix Brit tanica. France obstructed such a peace. not because France wants war. but because she wants peace on other terms. The test of Lloyd Georges Q1SlntereStcdneSS Tn seeking european peace easily is made. One need only ask what he ever did toward recon cling France and Germany.
 Seek Divided Europe
 The answer Is nothing, and the req sons are clear. The traditional British policy is a divided Europe with Eng land holding the balance and making all others dependent on her friend ship at any price. Franco German unity Is the last thing England would foster If 1t seemed probable it Is practically certain that London would do everything to forestall it.
 The British tory "die-hards' say that Lloyd George is destroying the British Empire, but they know full well that he Is working for an Euro pean peace on British terms only and will accept war rather than any other peace.
 If France and Germany tomorrow made pact similar to the Russ o- German treaty of Rapallo 1t would establish European continental peace on rock foundation, but 1t also would be the greatest blow British foreign policy ever suffered. No in- formed. honest observer will question that. And that shows better than anything the essential difference oe- tween peace and paix Brittanica.