New-York tribune., 1922-01-05
Cannes Likely
TO Have Effect
On Arms Parlev
simonds Predicts That Out
come of Lloyd George
BRAND Debate Is Sure
to Influence Conference
Agreement Will Aid Peace
Anglo.French Relations Re.
earded by Writer as Be.
ing i'll Aggravated State
By Frank II. Si1nonds

By Frank II. Sinonds
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.--While the
armament limit alton conference has mo-
u.ntarily subsided into that necessary
routine preceding the next plenary
..,.ion. the attention. both of the for
s;gn and OF the American representa-
.,,.s. has turned toward Cannes. 1t is
r.cocnszed that upon the issue of the
d.hate there between the Prime Min
,..srs Of France and Great Britain
,,,os the fate of any effort at gen
.-s, reconstruction in the world at
the present moment.
70 Great Britain and France find
hssis Of cooperation the pathway to
real peace will be clearer than at any
,roment since the armistice. If con-
a.. md not cooperation comes, the
outlook economic even more than po-
l;tical. will be bleak in the extreme.
Yet among the foreigners here one
hears on all sides the words of caution,
words of warning against great ex
pectations OF any immediate solution.
Anglo-French relations are more ag-
rravated now than they have been at
sry time since Fashoda, when there
was actual talk of an Anglo French
war. No one is now talking about such
thing as war. but the bitterness on
both sides Of the Channel has reached
high-water mark.
For American Approval
Events at the Washington conference
n, likely to play a considerable part
o. the Riviera. Great Britain and
France have fought a battle in the
United States for American approval.
temporarily, at least, the French de-
feat has been complete. British di-
ulomacy has been more successful than
ever in recent history, and the meas
ure of this success is seen in the con-
temporary alienation of American SYM
pathy from France.
1t is clear, then. that Lloyd George
will play the card of America in
Cannes for all that it is worth. He
will make every possible effort to use
the present isolation of France as a
convincing argument for French aban-
donment of an independent policy and
a return to British direction. For
three wears France has been more and
more steadily escaping from British
leading strings and insisting upon her
rights as great power. The supreme
test of her post -bellum policy is now
10 come
put even if one assumes that Rriand
would like 70 Weld to British demands
.OS'1 .uS r.s s,"e u,;lI;no - accent MT Rr;t;sk
solut;on for world nrohlems his situa-
t;on ;s rot s;n,nla Tast smn,n,er wben
France and Creat Rritain we're at tho
noint of hreatino ovar Tho Irnner S;le~
san mess Pr;aSd was driven hv his
own Parliament TO refuse the Rritish
policy. His interview With Llovd George
on that occasion remains a landmark
ir recent history. In that interview he
fatty refi,sed IN how N Tlovd Ceoroe
and the resuIt w was tho ~ rofnrsnce of 80
whole 1Tnnsr S;ies;an dis,n+a ~ ~
Ta Tmv.u opper slieslah dispute 10 'he
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Prisoner of Chamber
Had BRAND Welded over rnnor
SIlesia he would 5avo fallon p,,t XXX = j.
hardly less clear That ;f ron, ~ a"u u,aI ~ -
any real concsssion r." 1r" ne p,';.;.s a.an;s
In the matte of .be 80 ''s,' t,n
matter Of renaratinns. $ bo ', LUZ, -, '.e
modify in an,- 49, :, ne Tonsen's 10
,cv. as i, has hoa, ,,,oa'',Ie ,,e I iehGh poi
and in tho 1i,;,od ." e,sas aase''1u Il. Europe
already sbsl, H'''u .;ii Ii'aies, n's l"lnIstty,
next meet,ns of |ba ,ba cC1sappear a. .ne
uties. Rriand i +ho ,uGmn'. r; VI Dep. .'
great majority IN tbe g1rsuns' E,sal pl .llas
which bic. demand French policy.