Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-01

pathy is being ex-
- pressed with the
French policy.
This doesn't mean
American "big bust
ness" has changed
Its mind but only that the average
individuals changed his.
1t may influence the Washington
administration some, and prevent
Germany from getting moral sup.
port she was hoping for, but it won't
help the French much.
England, which is a good deal near
er to the Situation" and has a lot
more to say about it than the United
States, ertainIy doesn't want
Frances Ruhr venture to succeed.
True, they do say the British have
been changing over to the French
side, too, but the British press
doesn't sound like it. The more it
talks about the French course, the
more pessimistic it gets.
Anyway, it's against nature. Eng
land is always, not perhaps the open
enemy of the strongest continental
European nation, but at least op-
posed to it. It's been the same ever
since she became first class power
against Spain, against France,
against Russia, against Germany, in
turn. Now it's France again.
The British consider the French
dangerous already. If they get
away with their Ruhr enterprise
they'll be still more so.
England isn't going to permit any
such thing if she can help it.
Not that the British want the Ruhr
trouble to develop into another war.
That would be too disorgaizing. But
it's better than an even bet that,
whole thing will drift into a hopeless
deadlock, and then there'll be medi-
7ation, and the windup won't be any
too favorable to France, though pos
sibly not to Germany either.
WHAT AN
UNPLEASANT THOUGHT
A news agency made a rather un-
pleasant suggestion the other day.
1t was this:
Suppose America got into war
for instance with Japan. Presumably
she'd want all the countries which
owe her money to pay up promptly,
Quite likely she'd be so anxious she'd
offer liberal discounts if they'd has
ten their settlements. 1t would pinch
them, of course, but they could
afford to be pinched if they got ia
vorable terms enough.
Just that little hint doesn't amount
to enough to get suspicious of other
counries over, lest they stir some
body to start trouble with us.
All the same it's been noted that
wars sometimes are Framed (up'
for just such reasons.
For example, onl va day or two
ago Dean Inge, the popular London
pulpit orator, made the public charge
that public passion is being worked
IN in, America for gratuitous at
tack on JAPAN" the kind of remark
that isn't calculated to make the Jap
anese like us.
It's an unpleasant thought that
there may be interests that would
like to profit by it if America were
involved in a serious conflict.
NATIONAL NERVES
ALL JUMpY
There have been plenty of small
sized labor troubles in this country
of more Importance in themselves
than the little frontier squabble be-
tween Poland and Lithuania.
Of course the reason this petty
disturbance attracts SO much atten-
tion is the fear that some country
a good deal Experimenting Russia
will break into it. An incident
seemingly OF no NOR consequence
served as the signal for the World
War to start.
1t isn't likely that this spark will
touch off any such explosion, but it
lust goes to show how jumpy the
worlds nerves are that it should
cause so much worry.
IT'S HARD
ON CHINA
America, England, France, and ia
nan are finding fault with China
because she's tride behind in meet
ino some of her foreign financial OBJ
legations.
Neutrality-suspicious. excepted-who's S
familiar with the conditions under
which China gets her loans can help
svmpathizing with her a little for
hating to pay, not SO much the prln-
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