San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14
Confusion in Germany
Sharpens Audacity Of
Fright" Parties.
|LEFTS WOBBLE, WAIVER
germany Laboring Under
Same Old Illusion,
Tardieu Says.
Nv ANDRE TARDIEU.

II fdrlD, Oct. lo.-lne eAtreHle coh-
fusion now reigning in Germany
|sharpens the audacity of the Right
|Nparties while it causes the weak
kneed Lief. parties to waver and wob-
Ible
The latter, thanks to the majority
Socialists, are still the stronger nu-
+ merically in the Reichstag, but the
former, possessing stronger leadership
and greater resources seems destined
to have the last word.
Chancellor Stresemann's role in
this imbroglio appears rather discon-
certing.
Stresemann began as an employee of
the great industrial magnates.
Politically, he is Bismarcsian and
his speeches as head of the Populist
party have more than once sounded
an extreme nationalistic note.
Destiny brought him into power at
moment when his previous declara-
tions could not possibly be executed.
His first act as chancellor was to
confess that passive resistance could
not continue.
And indeed it never had a chance
|<pf succeeding without Englands &C
tive support.
Thus. naturally there is feeling
bf disappointment among Strese-
mann's supporters and it is inevitable
That this disappointment will drive
lthe chancellor into the arms of those
|fwho opposed him yesterday.
This weeks contradictory events
4 re the expression of this situation.
Hugo SHINES. whose personal rela-
lions with Chancellor Stresemann
have never been sympathetic is rep
resented by certain reports as seeking
to upset the government.
This is possible, but it is hard to
Zee how Germany's present difficult
lies could be solved more easily by
The one than the other of these gem
2smen.
Trouble Would Follow.
The production policy, OF which
|Etinnes is the champion. would re-
kzpuire in his case as in Chancellor
{Stresemann's the abrogation of the
bight-hour day. and trouble might
If'ollow. Sr a , 80
n Furthermore. no monetary reform
Mould be undertaken, considering the
| present level of the mark without i'm
4rediately provoking an industrial
1 crisis.
And yet so long as the mark re-
mains where it is. there is no possi-
<pility either for internal stability or
External negotiations.
These reasons explain the extreme
Reserve of France and Belgium.
I am told that this reserve has &C.
Fashioned surprise in England and the
limited States where the people do
hot comprehend why. since Chancel-
or Stresemann withdrew the resist
nee orders. France and Belgium re-
y)kused to negotiate with him.
81 1t is true that the German charge
&E'affaires at Brussels and Paris re-
Iciycd negative replies when they of
Lcred TO reopen conversations. Pre-
ISnier Poincare declared that so far
S RESUMPTION of work in the Ruhr
IEas concerned. direct agreements with
he local Ruhr organizations were suf-
IEicient and as for general rcpara-
HONS settlement, he directed Germany
% consult the Preparations commits
t.ion.
IA Obviously. this abstention cannot
|t5ast forever.
But so long ms We are so Him
n Ormpu concerning the alignment OF
ihe various forces in Germany, it is
1erfectIy justifiable.
Ia The most one can say in criticism
tf this po.ition is that the Franco
Belgian policy denies its own be-
Ginning.
Ia Last January, when occupation be-
Lam we were appealing TO "Ger-
nanv,s good wills Systematically neg
betting those local organisms with
..bicl we treat today and which then
inuld have taken control.
~ Now when Germany Yields we re-
use TO talk to her and deal with the
i,dustrialists. whom we have neg
hcted all these months.
"a This appears rather inconsistent
Md seems 10 represent n great waste
M time.
M ANYTHING Can Hammer.
Anv pliess IS good ono about
-bat NAV hammer in Germany-fall
Il Tho government. dissolution of the
fe;ebstag or omen revolt.
| rrbo situation resembles in many
ASpncts that which followed the Ar
<biyice Acain Germany has been de-
lived NV leaders who promised an
hanoss;bie r;ctorr