The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
MISS EsSIE MAE WEBB

kinds of Frenchment apparent to the naked eye and ear. The one would thumb his nose at Downing street; the other would courteously but firmly inform an erring Albion that Marianne France had made her last sacrifice. come what might.
 But this, of course, Is only seem- Ing. There are moderates who know that If the treaty of Versailles must be patched with nullifying amenG- ments to slave off the nightmare of financial collapse in Germany that there is no good opposing 1t. They know that nothing would please Ger many more just now than an open break between the allies, and says as did a deputy yesterday: At any rate, let's keep the entente going. even though the cordiality be gone" They are relieved (for example) when the censor softly admonishes the exu- berant music hall manager that no matter if anti-British jokes" are sure-fire laughs, he must tone them a bit. The men of real power h France are not disposed to intransi- gence. But it is quite impossible to flout a popular feeling as powerful as that toward England.
 Why He Is Quitting
 The idea is that MT. Britling, in- stead of seeing 1t through, quit or Is quitting at the behest of a certain MT. Trade Opportunity, who didn't figure at all in the original version. Now 1t is perfectly inevitable that MT. Britling, harassed by problems of peace as he never was by those Of war, ts going to act as the economic interests of his crowded little island dictates. And If this entails the ac- ceptance of strong German policy so that Brazil, getting back her olo cc flee custom, can England buy in British market? If 1t entails sort Of partnership with Germany for the exploitation of Russia, so be 1t. This may disappoint France. but 2,000,0o0 jobless men are walking the streets of British cities; London Is dreary with beggars, and in Paris deputy , can boast that in all France the statisticians of the government could find but 12,000 men without jobs, for the war tide from the farms to the urban factories turned in l92l and the intuition makers are back tilling the soil about their native villages.
 A liberal newspaper has asked some 20 representative deputies ana senators to suggest bases for "common policy between France ana England" One or two see no funda- mental difference in interests of the two nations, blaming the strained re- lations of the present on sheer GUS sedness; but the others say funda- mental economic interests conflict. For England. Germany is a client to he "sold.:" for France, she Is debtor who must be forced to pay. With the destruction of the German fleet and the loss of her colonies, England has naught but sentimental reasons to regard Germany as an enemy and sentiment never has anything to do with foreeign policy France s interest lies on the Rhine; Englands 8 in the orient. England has simply returned to her traditional policy or rot 1ettine any one nation dominate the continent. If these parliamentarians are mos. specific and unpoetic In their aias noses. they are less. happy in tneir suggestions for the cure. one or wv o suggest that the issuance of iia.
 statement mo more sacrihces
 would fix everything up; others only aslx "a return to the solidarity or l the war" several would have France agree to let England alone in the | orient if England would let France alone on the Rhine. All want an emu
 to the present stream of irritatihs E
 misunderstandings and a mueuai'
 frank statement of aims.