Evening star., 1922-01-15
TARDLEU SCORES BRAND:
HALLS END OF REGIME
Declares Frances Awakening Has Come
Describes Past Iwo Years as Term
Of Disintegration Of Nation.

the moratorium granted Germany.
Here again my recent prediction
was confirmed. Tampering with
Belgium's priority rights in the
German payments was Ill received
at Brussels. where there was par.
Loucheur, who represented France
in the matter.
The third delicate point was the
invitation to the German delegates
to Cannes. Every man OF good will
was shocked at allowing a CON-
Quered nation to participate In the
debates at the present stage Of In
ter-aalied relations, and before Ger
many has furnished q single proof
of her good faith. obviously 1t was
Germany's hope to complete the
counter proposals.
The fourth cause for uneasiness
was the attempt to link up Ger
man reparationB with the quite
different problem of Europe's eco
nomic reconstruction.
Reparation II Punishment.
Whatever you call 1t, reparation
is punishment and therefore oblig-
atory. Europe's reconstruction Is
business and therefore requires
partnership. But a partnership
with Germany before she makes
the least effort to repair the dam
age she inflicted upon this coun-
try is a solution which the French
public could not admit without re-
volt, nor could they admit that
Germany's payments were depend
ent upon the successful reconstruc-
tion of Europe, for, resting upon
the unanimous recent report OF
the reparatiofs commission, they
believe that Germany can and must
pay now.
4 f1fth cause for alarm was the
invitation to the soviet govern
ment of Russia to be represented
at Genoa At first 1t was decided
to resume only commercial rela-
tions with Russia, without politi-
cal Significance, but admitting
Lenin himself. or a personal rep.
resentative, would entail tnevtt.
ably a political relationship. At
first guarantees were to be asked
of Russia. but the invitation was
issued and accepted without the
mention of guarantees.
Recognition of the bolshevik
regime by the other governments
therefore was practically accom-
plished. The United States, which
in a note last year summarized
SO forcefully the dangers OF such
a recognition will understand why
France, which lost twenty billion
francs through the soviet revolu-
ton, fears the approaching arrival
of Lenin or Tchicherin.
Treaty Latest Concern.
A sixth and last concern was
the Anglo-French pact. tossed
Thursday into the chamber OF
deputies by NJ. BRAND. with his
take it, or leave 1t" gesture. To
sign agreements there must first
be agreement But on nearly every
question France and England think
differently. Moreover, 1t is only too
obvious that England demands as
the price of this pact frances final
acceptance of all the mutilations
of the treaty of Versailles accom-
plished in the last two years. She
demands also new concessions on
reparations and the occupation of
the left bank of the Rhine. Remem-
bering Clemenceau's accepted tri-
partite treaty with England and
the United States as guaranteeing
Frances rights under the treaties.
it is astonishing that BRAND should
accept one with England alone as
the price of abandoning the same
rights.
1t was obvious that parliament
would refuse to ratify the Cannes
agreements as they stood and that
Brands ministry soon would have
been overthrown.
tCopyrisht, 1927