Americus times-recorder., 1923-02-22


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STEWART branch. It's been
approved by the British government.
That accounts for England. It's
been approved by the United States
house Of Representatives It's a
foregone conclusion that it will be
approved by the senate, though soma
senators will fight it. And that viii
end it.
In spite of certain amount of OBJ.
lection, most people appear to think
1t was pretty fair bargain financial
ly. 1t will tend to stabilize exchange
and all that sort of thing. Thus far,
it's to the good
But all the best authorities are
agreed that it ties the United States
and England tight together for the
next 62 years by a bond of more
than four and a half billion dollars,
and whether or not that's a good
thing depends on the viewpoint.
FNA4NCE'S DIPLOMATIC
TRIUMPHS.
Diplomats generally agree that
France has out-maneuvered England
IN the field OF International poll
tics since the war.
1t isn't straining a point to won
der if the French aren't glad Ger
many defaulted on reparation pay
ments-if it wasn't Frances idea all
along to seize the German coal fields,
thus reducing Germany to compara-
tive national ,unimportance and cor
respondingly exalting France.
Italy is on Frances side.
Most Of the little European coun-
.ries are pro-French.
France has supported Turkey
against England.
Angry as they were at the Soviets
FOR repudiating the czarist govern
ment's debts, the French have estab-
lished, unofficially but none the less
effectively, pretty good relations with
tn e present Russian ruling powers
better, at any rate, than England's.
All in all, politically, France is
much the strongest power in conti-
mental Europe today.
She's also the worlds strongest
military power.
BRITISH ECONOMIC
POWER.
England's traditional policy, has
been to prevent any single power
from becoming too strong in conti-
mental Europe-to play off against
another, or others.
If she isn't deeply perturbed at
Frances present predominance, it
marks change in her whole d.
plomacy of centuries.
And in one way, for all of her
political successes, France is weak
financially, economically.
This is just where England is
strong, but not as strong as she used
to be. She feels, since the war, the
need of some assurance that Amer.
icas with her when she has occasion
to put the financial and economic
screws on.
Does that explain why she was in
a hurry to get the matter of her war
debts fixed up, so he could get
busy? Maybe.
For France, even if she did want
an excuse for OCCUPYING the Ruhr,
the undertaking was dangerous one.
REDS VERY
BUSY.
In the first place, she cut off the
payments she was getting ready from
Germany. 1t was an expensive
military enterprise in itself. 1t dis
organized French trade at home, as
near-war might be expected to
do.
She's encountering an unexpected
difficulty, too-the communists -
Bolsheviki in short-are busy. They
didn't have much trouble in arous-
;ng discomfort among the Germans
n the Ruhr, but they didn't stop at
that-they started propagandizlng
among the French there also. And
now they're active among the min
ers in France itself, and big strike
If coal workers there is threatened.
QUESTION FOR U. S.
TO ANSWER.
Secretary of State Hughes, who
was hoping to attend the Pan
American Congress at Santiago
Chile. in March, says now it's doubt
full if he can go.
With the European situation so
scrambled, it's easy to understand
why. However, the secretary will
need first class explainer to repre-
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