Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-08


mined to grow and that England was
determined to prevent her from
growing, because she could grow only
at England's expense.
Nobody foresaw that America
would be drawn into the struggle.
but plenty of people foresaw that
France and Russia and Italy and the
Balkan nations and, Of course, Aus
tria-hungary would.
True, great many who saw per-
fectly we'll what the tendency was,
didn't believe there actually would
be q war. They thought civilization
had progressed too far for such
thing to be possible. But they were
aware that England's race to keep
ahead and Germany's to catch up
were leading logically, in that direct
ton.
Well, it's the same today, except
shat, now, instead of being England
and Germany, it's England and
France.
THEIR INTERESTS CONFLICTS
Their interests conflict. Nothing
could be worse, A quarrel can be
patched up, but a conflict of inter-
ests can't
The friction between England and
France isn't very serious yet, but f
things go on as at present, it will get
more and more so. Probably it will
be ten or twenty years before the
sparks begin to fly. But sooner or
later they will
OF course this is assuming that
France goes ahead with her policy
Of today and that it works.
Nothing could be clearer than that
she aims to expand, and nothing can
be more certain that, il she succeeds
in doing it, she will Ihave England
to reckon with.
ARMED REVOLT IN GERMANY
French propgandists have beer
circulating the story lately that the
Germans are getting ready for ar
armed uprising in the Ruhr.
No doubt it's true there's q good
deal of restlessness there, but the
French have too obvious a reason to
exaggerate for their accounts to be
taken without a liberal quantity of
salt-they want an excuse for tight
ening their grip.
Most of the International political
authorities are predicting some sort
Of a settlement of the Ruhr contro-
versy before long, but it looks more
every day as if the Fdench meant to
hang on for good. There may be So
called mediation, yes, France, how
ever, as the plot works itself out,
doesn't appear, quite so much as she
did at first, to have gone off at half
cock when she seized this German
territory. If she had some well-laid
plan in mind at the time, it isn't like
" that any conference of outsiders
will persuade her to give it up.
FRENCH EXPANSION POLICY
For that matter, French and Ger
man 'big business" show signs of
getting closer together than they
were.
There was quite awhile that Ger
many, in a business way, was so much
more friendly with the English than
the French as to upset the latter.
Was the Ruhr enterprise intended,
among other things, as a hint to the
Germans that they'd got to tie up
with France, whether they liked it or
not? And are the Germans beginning
to do it. like cold-blooded business
men who don't let sentimental con-
siderations weigh with them for long
against hard facts?
Indications point that way,
Also all accounts agree that France
;s likely to recognize the revo-
lutionary government of Russia soon
with which, by the way, England fs'nt
as friendly as she was. French in
fluence?
A. anv rate, it's certain that
France is doing everything she knows
how to strengthen herself, politically
tinental Europe, as fast as she can.
and commercially throughout con-
NEW ALIGNMENT GLIMPSED
The oueerest feature of the whole
thing, just at the moment is that
there's an underlying sense OF better
relations between France and Ger
many despite the formers invasion
Of the latter's soil, and in spite also
Of the supposedly threatened Ger
man rising against the French, than
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