The Washington herald., 1922-06-04
Europe Not Yet Prepared
To Bargain, Says Simonds
Declares Any New Conference Must Fail Until
Germany Can Borrow Money to Meet
French Reparation Claims.


France ana Sreat o.sin IN E
rope, wnicn oio hot' a. sne ihohen.,
permit the represeass oi tne
Two hatlohs 10 sec eye Aor eye, sum
oelns the case, .e % asnths .on
eonier renee oo ,ha .,,hr, 70 III
any conIp. o ~ '''
ratios "e
one hs nni st' aa ns ,e 'hv h,,
rranrh ranrssart..I,,a
wa.bington n has NOT re- a.
csnted nv tbe French parIiarent
and when was In paris thera was
eyery irdication that ~. Eranch
Parliament would add a reservation
OF its own to the flye-power treaty.
materially increasing the French
percentage.
All Wanted Same Ts,rv
- g.. n-,.-,
H.I.s n
a1raen,ant haoa,s. - oii
vented tba SAW thins aItSorsh
for ouite different reasor. Er.nce
and Great Britain could not reach
an agreement because they had to-
tally opposing views. For this d.
Vergehce there was no remedy In
ooai ehee "here sovereign states
nor was mere any remedy IN
nirio n' lor rrehcn pupIc
~. o.h IN, way anu BRUSH ~
-, ,.h opInion
~, - .,tsn.. urany nau
Eroh upon ~
.st- "a o"h in'e
cohsiuer now II you please the
1enoa situa'lon' lhere was no uh-
arriVeu at IN advance
oe'"een RUSSIA on the one SIDE and
.ne western powers on the other'
ihere was ana remains tunda-
nheh'ai oinerehce IN principle De-
tween the Communistlc ldea OF
properly ana the capltallstic, TO
"hich latter we mold TO In common
with all the otner great powers
, p - no
cornproIn,se GENOA was pouna 10
IaIi IN pu' no a'eeihp' ~ae
'here oouiu oe any common srouhu'
At Opposite Poles.
You had. then. Russia and the rest
of the world at the opposite poles
on the question which underlay all
else. II commercial and financial re-
lations were to be restored to
normal basis and the Russian Soviet
government recognized. But you
had something more, you had al
most as profound a difference be-
tween the western nations as to the
extent TO which they should go IN
making compromises 70 meet the
Russian situation. Great Britain
and Italy, for domestic political ana
economic reasons, were ready TO go
almost the whole distance. France
and Belgium were not prepared TO
go a foot. The rest OF Europe, the
neutral states included, were d
vided in the matter, while the
United States, sitting on the side
lines. indorsed the Franco-Belgian
view.
uba, cbanc. wa. there. then OF
.ss - Ceno.7 what comnari-
-. 80 aotroIr,, n. made between
CD - WasS,no,on, wasbine.
-. ,orLet niace where three
III t.,,i. .or,stbire to trade
=. ,saso r,at.and com
anu uesti ie ad,ano al,
pieteu ne, ,.,s -, ,be
'hree ndu ueen - %
state ol ihiho vi .h -
meet haturails Ineie -
De haggnns over l
each OF tne tnree eae ~ aU
ness on tne pest rms 10
The fourth' france hasIhS
f'rent state OF mino, oeclIneu 70
buy or sell on aVaiIaDie terms anu
was thus In a Genoa state OF niiiiu
Not Epoch-Marking.
great effort and perhaps a
n,turaI efrort has been made to
dramatize the Washington confer
ence as something unique and
epoch-marking with peculiar
moral tang. OF course 1t was notn-
ing of the sort. 1t did not promote
onciliation, as the Anglo-French
dispute clearly showed. what 1t did
do was to demonstrate that when
nations are united by common self
interest, not even an international
conference can prevent them from
striking a bargain, but when self
interests run counter, then an in
conference only helps TO
accentuate these differences.
That, after all, was the history OF
The Hague. 1t has been the his
ory of all international confer
ences and must remain so. Genoa
ia only a final evidence Of the folly
of holding a conference when there
is no solid basis for agreement or
for bargaining. At Genoa, Russia
found the western nations not
united upon terms which they
would offer, but divided upon those
terms. Accordingly Russia under
took. lust as Talleyrand did at the
congress of Vienna, to play one
proun against he other.
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