The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-21
BRAND Resigns, His Arrange
ments With Lloyd George
Being Opposed.
CANNES PROGRAM IS UPSET
Poincare Invited to Form New French
Minlstry-May Fight German Nora
torium-Senate, BY Close Vote,
Seats Newberry Of Michigan,
With a Rebuke.
Bv EDWARD w. PlCkARD

FRANCE spilled the beans last week.
= BRAND and his cabinet are out.
Poincare is forming new ministry
with himself as its head. All the
doings of the meeting Of the supreme
council at Cannes are nullifed, at
least for the present. Plans for the
economic and financial conference
may have to be revised. The Ger
mans probably will he called on by the
French to make the PREPARATIONS pay
ments when they are due or suffer the
penalty.
Lloyd George at Cannes had agreed
that Great Britain would make
treaty guaranteeing France against at
tack by Germany, provided. however.
that the French ministry Of marine
and the British admiralty should reach
complete agreement on submarines
and other naval craft, and provided
also that the French and British gov
ernments should make their foreign
policies conform, especially In the near
east He required, too, that France
cooperate in restoring world econom-
les and finances and agree to deal
with Soviet Russia. These conditions
all meant yielding by France to
British policies and at once q storm
OF opposition arose in Paris. BRAND
hurried to that city and after telling
the cabinet all about what he had
done and engaging In heated con-
troversy with President Mlllerand,
went before the chamber Of deputies
and presented the entire program, tell
ing It's members they could take 1t or
leave It. Then he bluntly announced
the resignation Of the ministry with
out waiting for vote.
Polncare, the main point Of whose
policy IL Germany must pay" was In
vi.ed to form n new cabinet and got
busy nj once. It was understood that
Count Iasteyrie would be minister of
finance. He recently Investigated con-
ditions In Germany and believes the
Germans can pay the reparations with
out moratorium provided their bud
get Is properly balanced and sufficient
taxes are imposed to bring their taxa
tion totals up to the level Of those
paid In France.
In all the European capitals and In
Washington there was something akin
to CONSERVATION when the news from
Paris was received The conference at
Cannes automatically came to an end
The American government, which had
not decided whether or not TO accept
the invitation to take part In the
Genoa conference, halted consideration
of the question until there are further
developments. The German cabinet
saw the chance for a moratorium fad
ing and was correspondlngly despon-
dent. The English were reticent but
plainly indignant and relations be-
tween them and the French, severely
strained for several years, were not
improved.
THE allied supreme council decided
i that an economic conference to
deal with the restoration Of Europe
should be held In Genoa in March,
and that both Germany and Russia
should be invited to send representa-
lives. No sooner did this news reach
Moscow than the soviet government
FASTENED to accept the invitation that
had not been formally extended.
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin wired the
council that the central executive COM
mittee would proceed to select the
delegates and would give them the
most extended powers. OF course
there was no doubt that Germany would
accept the Invitation Of the council,
and the InnaneSp delegates to the