Evening star., 1922-06-07
PRACTICAL POLICY
NOW FRENCH NEED
Recent Efforts Negative,
Writers Agree-Construc-
tive Plan Is Urged.
BY PAUL SCOTT MoWRER.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1922.
PARIS, June THE idea is grow
ing rapidly among all the French
! parties that henceforth it will not be
enough for France to take stand on
abstract principles Of right and jus
tice. The result Of this stand has
been largely negative. 1t is necessary
| for France to indicate now how these
principles can be developed in a
solutions of such questions as that
of reparations from Germany.
whenever France presents def
writes PHILIPPE Millette. foreign edi-
tor of the Petit Parisienne. I'm his
five months in Office" explains Per-
tinax, foreign editor of the Echo De
Paris. premier Poincare has admir-
ably released our country from the
shackles of all kinds in which Inn
prudent policy had entangled it.
Secessarily this task has been a
affirmation and construction"
Constructive Plan Urged.
Jacques Bardoux, an eminent
writer on foreign affairs and d close
personal friend of NJ. Poincare. pub
| licly sails on the latter to lose no
structive French foreign policy COW
ering all points of French interest.
The writer has reason to believe that
the premier is already beginning to
based on French principles Of law and
justice and defense of treaties, will
ALSO appear to foreigners as reason
a BILE and practical
IF he declared at Nerdun on Sun
day we were using or seeming to de
sire to use our strength to support
UNJUST ana unreaSonabl demands: il
we dreamed of expressing other ma
tions of extending our territory: If we
refused all peaceful aims. certainly
people would have the right to Judge
| US severely. But is there the slight
est indication that we have ever
nourished such designso Have we
not on the contrary, given proof of
extraordinary moderation respect
ing Germany? Have we not already
laid for her eighty billion francs in
he unhappy regions she ravaged and
which we have thus far been obliged
10 reconstruct at our own expense"
Practical Plan Lacking.
The fact remains that with the ex-
ception OF the imperative Loucheur-
Rathenau agreement for reparations
in kind; France thus far, as the
French themselves admit has not
presented a definite practical plan
r
many can pay. Premier Poincare is
favorably disposed toward the idea
OF an international loan and is will
ing TO consider the revision Of GER
tain features of the treaty of Yer
sailles IL it is necessary to max
such loan possible. He will not
permit the bankers, however. to deal
with the Question of the total Ger
man reparations bill. which he con-
siderS lies outside their jurisdiction.
If the bankers in consequence fail
to find loan possible it will be all
the more necessary for France to
present positive scheme of her own.
Regarding Russia. NJ. Poincare pro-
poses a positive scheme. II Russia
recognizes her debts, agrees to re-
store property of foreigners and
promises sufficient protection in the
courts, France will not only help in
Russia's industrial reconstruction, but
will be ready to take the lead in a
vast scheme for the restoration of
Russian agriculture, furnishing seed,
fertilizers and a good deal of ma
chinery.