Evening star., 1922-01-22
germany IS SEEN
MORE BITTER DAILY
Member of Commons, After
Trip, Tells of Feeling
/ Toward Allies.
BY GEORGE WITTE.
By Wireless tn The Star and Chicago d
News. Copyright 1872

By Wireless tn The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1922
BERLIN, January 21.-"The last
British elections were fought on the
question of making Germany pay for
the war; the next will be fought on
the question of refusing to let Ger
many pay"
This was the view expressed to the
writer today by Commander Joseph
NJ. kenworthy, a member of the
house of commons. as he was leaving
for England, after his third visit to
Germany in half year. Mr.. Ken
worthy has had many opportunities
to meet the country's prominent men
and discuss the situation with them.
He also Investigated the Upper ST.
lesian question while making a tour
OF the plebiscite area.
ITO let Germany pay" continued
MIR. kenworthy, means to jeopardize
British trade and industry. Germany
will recover. She is bearing up well
under the war burdens, and when
she RECEIVERS we do not want her to
be in dangerous mood. bent on re-
Henge at any price. The interests of
the United States and Great Britain
demand that We allow Germany to
recover SO that she can take her
part as a trading unit. I am con-
WINGED that without Germany Europe
cannot recover.
Germans Grow More Bitter.
'.In Great Britain there is a better
atmosphere at present because We
have begun to realize that we must
cooperate with Germany, but my i'm
preston is that in Germany the feel
ing toward the allies is getting more
bitter daily. And that Is because
of little insults. The difficulties Ger
mans encounter in getting into Lon
don hotels is one of them. The re-
fusal to admit German diplomats to
golf clubs is another example. Little
things like that are reported every
where in Germany and evoke i'll feel
ing,
I'VE must admit that on the whole
we are well received by the Germans.
1t is not the British way to treat
beaten foe like that and We ought to
abandon our present attitude toward
the Germans.
My opinion of the Genoa confer
ence is that unless Prime Minister
Lloyd George. Premier Poincare and
Chancellor Wirth and the leading men
of Russia, Germany and other coun-
tries attend, the meeting will merely
be the league of nations over again.
The league has adopted machinery
dealing with all these matters, includ-
ing the making of treaties. but the
leading politicians in the foreign
offices of the various countries see in
it rival organization, and therefore
are out Ito smash it.
Nothing much will happen at
Genoa, unless public opinion insist
that the big men themselves go there.
The people of Britain want real
conference. If France refuses to take
part. then wa must do without her.
We have had to go ahead without the
United States. and. If necessary, we
can get along just as easily without
France"
Another British member of parlia-
ment who has been studying condi-
tions in Germany. told me that he be-
lieved Premier Poincare would sue
ceed in having a debt commission ap-
pointed to supervise and control Ger
manys finances.
Personally" he said, II do not be-
1ieHe that Germany in the next few
years can pay the annual installments
fixed by the reparations commission.
but after a few years time she will
have recovered sufficiently to meet
demands. At the same time, l do be-
lieve that Germany is not trying to pay
all she can and that in some way or
other she will have to be forced to
pay all she is in position to pay. A
debt commission would be able to
keep a close check on her finances
and from time to time fix the amount
she must pay regularly"