Evening star., 1923-11-25
The Story the Week Has Told

issue is probably not dead for though, to their
credit. the Netherlanders are financially a
very dear. The government resigned on de-
feat of the bill, but were asked by the queen
to retain office for the present, and have not
yet gone out.
Germnny.-Well, the report that the entente
was dead was exaggerated. The entente still
lives; not exuberantly, to be sure, but it isn't
a corpse.
Agreement was reached allied procedure
with reference to the return to Germany of
the former crown price and with reference to
the activities in Germany of the interallied
military control commission and the inter
allied committee of aeronautic guarantee The
n"tes to erin conSsying their decisions o1
the matters. On November IS the German
note to the French foreign office which quoted
the document dated December l, 1918. by which
e tn the crown o" of Prnssia and the ms imperial
crown. and which conveyed a formal assur-
permit the former emperor's return to Ger
many. In one of their notes to Berlin the
of the former crown princes renunciation and
of Berlhs assurance concerning the former
ernment for allowing Frederick William to
return at a time when his presence might
plicated merely remark that they will hold
the men for n
Lord Curzon wrote the note, which is in a
foncap havn decided not o to bother
the prince-not to invest him with nimbus,
as it wcre-let the noble lord write 1t;
The other note of the ambassadors informs
the German government that the military con-
troll commission and the committe" OF aero
nautic guarantees are going to resume opera
tOns at once. reminds that government of
its obligations under the treaty TO give those
missions every facility required. minirnizes the
likelihood of the serious complications" Ber,
lin processes to fear, and declares that, should
the operations of the missions meet with
Instructions: the allied government government win
take measures to insure execution of the
Treaty" This note differs from the note Poin-
had proposed in that it does not specify
the particular sanctions" the allies would put
in effect in case of German obstruction or
due to the British attitude, and it seems prob
able that, though the right TO resume inspec
tions and the obligation of the German govern
ment to facilitate such are strongly asserted,
the inspections will not amount to much in
the immediate future by reason of withhold
ing Of British cooperation.
Unanimous agreement of the members of the
military commissions is required to the
places to be inspected, from which it follows
that ii the British commissioners hold off the
district where the disarmament clauses of the
not DE inspected Poincare has followed Mar
shall Foch's advice in letting it go at that,
not only Will occupation of the Ruhr con-
tinue until reparation is complete, but the
Rhineland will be held until the treaty has
been fulfilled t" the last comma. The latter
will be evacuated only upon absolute dem
onstration that the armed forces and arma-
ment of Germany are not in excess of treaty
allowances. NJ Poincare shows good sense.
To hold TO an uncompromising attitude
specting the activities of the control commits
sions would be to sacrifice the hope faint
though il is Of renewal Of q good understand
ing with the British to fritter away French
reserving it for grand occasions.
Poncare; as usual spoke by the card when
the other day he expressed assurance of COM
plete resumption within the future on
the French terms (sensbly modfed) of indus
Early in the week the greatest chemical syndi-
cate in the world signed agreement with