The Washington times., 1923-11-26
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By Herbert Kaufman

10y nSKUSIS AoU1IIo4E-e
1ERMANY'S fate is in the
- hands of Poincare and
~ Providence. The Won Kor-
dorff cabinet dies to the tune of
food riots and the crack OF
police pistols.
DR.. Heinrich Albert, Of more
or less unsavory fame herea-
bouts, will next attempt to wear
Bisrharck's boots. Nothing in
the gentleman's previous per-
formances indicates that they'll
fit.
The desperate situation
searches for Titans and discov-
ers but runts.
Craftsmanship has run out of
Caprivis, Palmerstons, D'Israelis
and Gambettas. Which largely
accounts for NJ. Poincare.
Throughout Europe, brakes
have succeeded dynamos.
ConN1ol of affairs has passed
TO reactionaries and crises
dodgers.
Competent leaders have turned
their backs on international
nluddling to replevin such local
opportunities as may still be
snatched from class.
Cato Again Has His Way.
7 LLOYD GEORGE, guilty of
- Edmund Burke's crime Of
being fright too soon," Is
switched into a siding to give
Baldwin, an unseasoned, indie
cisive Nolitician, thoroughfare.
Venizelos, the shrewdest tacti-
clan on the Continent, can't
even engage his brilliant talents
upon the rehabilitation If
Greece.
Mussolini, Disguised with the
backboneless entente, frankly
abandons hope of collecting the
slightest indemnity and con-
centrates energies on Italy's in
ternal problems.
Paris has exhausted the fl
nesse and opposition of the
allies.
Cato wins.
Carthage is to be destroyed.
France has her way.
The apple of discord remains
in her exclusive possession and
"there amt goin' to be no CORE
after occupation has gratified
its selfish claims.
Theren be empty, oratorical
gestures against the profitless
Interpretation of a common
CREDITOR few more futile con-
ferences, perhaps a third tender
Of arbitration from the United
States and Great Britain. The
League of Nations will stage
further marionette shows; It's
puppets will pompously strut
and jerk about while Paris holds
the strings and devises the
plots.
Thus concludes the chestnut
pulling adventure once widely
advertised as the "War that
ws5 to end all wars" otherwise
mentioned as q Rally to the de-
Tense Of civilization"
For our own part we may ex-
tract satisfaction from the as
surance that, mainly through
u. S. Intervention, autocracy
was shifted from one bank of
the Rhine TO the other.
To the TOp-Dogs the Bone.
THIS, and the reflection that
- every beneficiary of our
help and largess is now a
earping critic-the majority of
them intending "welshers,' be-
sides.
Lloyd George even finds SEN
timent hostile to the refunding
Of the British loan, which Ad-
miral Chester asserts will never
be liquidated and several Lon
don editors consider a prema-
ture and ADVANTAGEOUS trans
action.
Englishmen begin to hear that
their pounds and pence shall be
applied to a revision of our
taxes and are reminded how
France has employed unpaid
billions for the support of the
franc and the arlning of Czecho-
slavia and Poland, not to men
tion her own ever increasing
aerial and artillery defenses.
To the top-dog the bone. By
right Of UivG la force n,Gjeure
the Quai d'Orsay oranges with
SHINES and other industrialists
to render PREPARATIONS direct, al
lotting these sums to German
credit.
Berlin isn't consulted, His
majesty's government is left
out in the cold. Curzou bowls
that the action is preiudicial to
British interests. Well, what
about it? If the Royal Flying
Corps had more bombers, his
opinion might have more effect.
Britannia doesn't rule the air.
Take a Back Seat,
Niagara.
EOR fair skies look near
home. Broadan Wall, market
forecaster, predicts a forward
movement in securities. Eight
per cent stock dividends loom
on the horizon. Construction is