Evening star., 1922-12-31
FRENCH WORSE OFF
!: AST|ME GOES0N
Tardieu Declares Borrowing
Has Continued and Taxes
Increased.
DIscDRD HAS GROWN
Lloyd George Blamed for Present
Crisis in Anglo French Rela-
tions Now Apparent.
DIscpRD HAS GROWN
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French High Commissioners to
the United states.

BY ANDRE TARDIEN,
Former French High CommissiOner to
the United states.
BY Cable Dispatch to The Star. Copyright, 49,.
PARIS, December 30.-Does the year
end better than it began?
Neither for France nor for Europe
can the question. be answered afiirma-
lively.
Throughout 1922 France continued
to borrow to repair the ruins caused
by German aggression. She already
has spent in this way for reconstruc-
ton and pensions more than eighty
billion francs plus expenses OF the
army of occupation. The debt service
absorbs over thirteen billion francs
annually. not counting our foreign
debt upon which we have not yet paid
any interest.
All that we have collected from
Germany is 1,72o.ooo,ooo gold marks
These receipts, which amounted to an
average Of $1,000, ,080 monthly in 1920
l. 81. fell to 22.000,000 during 1922.
Preparations in kind. except coal. are
going badly and as consequence
France must borrow continually while
1 half billion francs in 1913 to twenty
one billions in 1922. They cannot be
Increased Indefinitely. Even SO the
| debt service shows 4 deficit in the
1923 budget OF over four billions.
Discord Ii shown.
This shows our situation during the
past year grew worse instead of bet
ter. Will the coming Paris conferenc ce
show progress either financial or
political? It would be rash to say SO.
+, The discord between France and
/ Britain has been demonstrated in the
| reparations commission where Brad
bury. the English representative. with
strange partiality refused to agree
| with his colleagues that Germany had
failed in deliveries in kind. although
| this fact was obvious.
| Lloyd George. by imposing sacrifices
on France for two years without
offering the slightest compensation, is
| the prime author of the crisis in
Anglo-French relations. France, by
her pro-Turk attitude in 1922. COM
Z! mitted similar errors, which. happily,
Nevertheless London and Paris are
! far from intimate agreement, which is
an Indispensable condition to Euro
pean equilibrium. Considering this
disassociation OF the entente Premier
Mussolini asked. not without reason.
! Conquered Show Activity.
! Those conquered in 1913 are showing
disquieting activity in 1922. The
| Rapallo treaty revealed the closeness
iof Moscow's relations with Berlin,
| whereof a thousand new symptoms
are coming into evidence. There also
| is close ship between the
kamalists and the soviet and through
them with Berlin. Worse Yet. the re-
' 1T
| these three governments. seemed cap
able of practical realization since the
Turks effaced their defeat, reinstated
themselves, in Europe, retook. Con-
| stantinople and eastern Thrace and
eliminated effective control of the
straits by the western powers.
! Russian and German nationalisr.
encouraged by the Kemalist success.
is awake. The German press is filled
with provocative paragraphs. Tchit-
/ cherins attitude at Lausanne is
| equally disturbing.
Europe Better in 1914.
! All this is happening in an un-
organic Europe. Only the little
entente countries seem to understand
unity enables them. moreover, to re-
I store themselves economically On
the other hand the status of the re-
, iations between them and the western
powers. England. France. Italy and
; Belgium. is underlined We've lived
from day to day without defining any
base for agreement and not prepa rims.
, for any. There is no continental
policy any more than a policy be-
tween the continent and the Anglo
Saxons. In 1914 Europe. despite its
at shakiness. was better ordered than in
! ASSS
| There is ample room in this cbsos
Tor great efforts and great results. but
there can't be results until there is n
viii for them. VIII 1923 bring ito