Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-28

, Three dozen governments, repre-
sented mostly by individuals who were
becoming more and more accustomed to
spending a large part of every year i'll
beautifully situated conference places
with sumptuous living-tbese with re-
porters chronicled chronicled chatter
quarrels not worth reporting, swal-
lowed mountains of money. Who.
then. would confess that the whole
show was no better than a stack of
wet fireworks? Such confession would
show the people that The Hague meet
ing will be superfluous. Enough al
ready is known about Russian condi-
tons and the bolshevik mentality-as
Hoover's recent speech plainly showed
to judge whether credit should be
granted Russia without trying the arts
of the Dutch cooks, but The Hague. as
the nam implies, is to be hedges which
hides political failures, taking for
granted that the United States. which
some regard as greater Morgania. is
so eager for continental recovery that
the Olympic will blossom with dollars
and Europe will be turned into a police
less paradise
Poor Outlook for The Hague
If nothing is accomplished in the
Carnegie Peace Palace. the ministers
might 60 to some fashionable bathing
place and put the world in order dur
ing the lunch and bless the people at
dinner.
All this would be impossible if the
truth were known about Genoa. When
Voltaire wrote. And that's how his
kNar :, ,-rstto -, ~ nobody ~, n,r cd What
new poison gas weapons official lies
would have at their command two cen
turtles later. Today. when home COM
ing delegations are credited in the pa
pers with huge success and an ex-
tr%aordinary increase of German pres
tige," the dollar is worth 80 marks
more than before the conference. Mean
while the purchase value of the mark
is falling and whether it will rise de-
ponds not on parliamentary oratory
but on the Paris PREPARATIONS loan nego-
tiations. The Genoa gathering receiv-
ed much greater attention here than
the Washington conference. What's
the difference between the two?
Washington was a quiet impartial dis
cussiOn of state affairs. Genoa was
the greatest show since Barnums. At
the former there was a clar program,
the greater part of which was accom-
plished. At the latter there was con
fusion and a mist of words wherein
no urgent European question was
solved.
Lloyd George Under OeIusion.
1t is clear to every business man
that ruined and starving Russia can
get capital and credit only if old debit
are recognized and private property is
guaranteed. Lloyd George was under
the delusion he could decoy the Russ
ians from the communist trenches,
them and. without offering CAPT
tai, parade them before his distrust-
full English constituents. When he
preceived this was pure Illusion he
tried in anti-war tract TO pose before
the old. and particularly before the
new. world, as Il protector of peace
and trade. When Poincare declared
France also wanted peace but did not
believe trade could be obtained through
compromises with those who refused
to recognize poperty right. the white
haired gentlemen from Wales could
do nothing but switch OF the lights
In the light house near The Hague.
is no real material for confer
ence in that mass of quarrels and
tricks. 30 governments had
opportunity to present their views.
and took nothing home but hotel.
restaurant and telegraph receipts. The
Russians have only been emboldened
In their demands for the naturalization
Of foreign properties since their hopes
for gold were, crushed. a