The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-27
HARDEN EXPECTS AID FROM AMERICA
 AFTER ELECTION
NationaIiStic Movement De- Clared Responsible ForFail- ure of France and Ger
 many to Agree
Nv MAMMALIAN HARDEN
 Germany's Foremost Publicist eeial Cable Dispatch to The AEc-HernId Copyright, 1922. by The ARe-Heraidl

l ANopSrthhts lpS<s Dy Aho fahc-hoks-'0t Berlin. August 26.-The latest
 idea here Is that when the elections
 in the United States are concluded
 things in Europe must improve and
 that, despite previous defeat of Ger ! man hopes, sunshine must come 1 through tho Stars and Stripes. A
 mad belief exists that when Ameri-
 ca reaches an economic agreement
 with Great Britain over eastern
 Asia and the worlds oil distribu-
 tion, she will cancel her European
 debts and that England will follow
 suit, thus considerably lessenins
 German separations.
 This Is due to Baifour's note de- l spite the fact that the French
 financial mission froze to death in
 Washingtons midsummer heat
 Everybody should understand that
 a land of youthful vigor like the 1 United States, though ready to CO., ! operate, will not sacrifice a larger
 amount of her capital only to pre- serve Germany from the rough treatment of her creditors, Ger
 many alone would benefit Britain and France are indifferent whether
 they pay less beyond the ocean or
 receive less from this side.
 For years Germans have cursed Americans and Englishmen as the
 orlginators of all ills but they now
 hope for salvation from them ana decry the French governments asso- citation herewith. The chronicler
 these days can easily believe the
 words of Goethe. that people all ways remain children. although these
 words, corroborated, would kill off the idea of democracy.
 Looking Forward
 Yet everybody must try to pre- pare fitting spring for democracy.
 The first condition is to see reali . ties-not what democracy makes believe are realities. American
 business men have neither the time
 nor the inclination to study the mo-
 notonous separations propositions
 Whether they present a comedy or tragedy they would rather see all
 cables cut than to read the Berlin dispatches cursing Poincare and the French policy.
 That the dollar buys 1.4oo marks;
 that prices are rising heavenward
 with wages increasing tremendously
 so that 1t Is necessary to have notes
 printed day and night at the Reich bank so that state and town budgets
 will not break down causes the
 middle classes, especially brain
 workers to trouble in thinking of
 the coming winter. All this was not
 caused by the failure of the London conference or the postponement of the asked-for moratorium by un-
 friendly Paris. but by tardy recogni-
 tion of the inevitable defeat in the greatest, most cruel and costliest
 war in history and by the careless, sterile policy of an inadequate ad- ministration waiting in idle hesita- tion while cursing the French and whining to the last because of a wrong idea of the reparations ex- acted.
 Poincare Stubborn
 Poincare is a lawyer and stub born constitutionalist and will not move hands breadth from the po- sition outlined by the parliament
 majority. He believes that he ought not to disarm Germany's monar- chist nationalist movement while the present German republican gov ernment continues the stupidity of Rapallo, Tchitcherins anti French speeches favoring the belief that the monarchist General Won Seeckt Is about to conclude offensive alliances with Trotzky, whose visit to Berlin
 soon Is announced
 Instead of seeking faults of oth- CTS. which Is a bad German habit,
 we must first admit our own mis-
 takes. Why suppress the fact that before the Rapallo bomb limitation of the Rhine occupancy was possible? :? Poincare, speaking to the German ambassador, said that Germany must pay separations to the civilians, not the military pensions. Why are
 Germany's misfortunes attributed to
 the Versailles treaty. which has not been executed? Why is the fast sup
 pressed that all French circles de- sire an understanding and economic
 collaboration with Germany today?
 Why Is this? Because the nation alist terror flinders almost every body from daring to utter word that would bring understanding to the French mind. wirth alw ys is
 meaning to fulfill the desired terms
 but cannot. so he calls to the world: "Germany's on her death bed" and wonders then why there Is no re- sponse from badly labeled lands. It is true that Germany Is not recover ing her export trade but her people.
 who support themselves plentifully
 with agricultural pursuits, will live
 and, with France. will seek new
 humble type of European economy
 from our own strength. When that time comes Americas help will be
 unfaiiing. The real service which
 the great republic Is unable to give today will come. recognize that to- day, more than ever. justice begins at home