The Washington times., 1923-08-27
MONSIEUR POINCARE'S
CONVENIENTLY BAD
MEMORY
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
ifkT TEAVEN helps those who help themselves we
stay in the Ruhr until we're paid" is the cabIed
gist of Poincare's speech at the unwilling Of
tablet which dedicates the spot at Gondrecout where
American troops first entered the trenches.
Remembering dead and wounded (not to men,
ton war expenditures and allied loans together exceed
swen OGns1 Monsleur poncare the
whom others help" F9
If France single-handed, had waged war with Ger
combatants, it would be neither Eng
lands how the top-dog worried snatched bones.
The SWGy of Reason and the Way Of Steel.
lnUT France did not defeat Germany.
lis Belgium delayed the foe at Liege and Lorraine
British troops at Mons DETECTED the kaisers thrust
Italy disdaning expediency and the chance to regrab
Riviera provinces, drove wedge between the Central
Empires Then when the combined hosts and resources
of dozen nations could no longer hold the enemy
when the Mailman in Posdam about to realize the
ents and the to break the Hindenberg Line and
turned the tables upon the Teuton.
we D led and gave to preserve Democracy. 70 per
fought menace not men.
The blows dealt were delivered at autocracy, milf
tarism, bad faith, and sabre-rattlng
Justice Without Vengeance.
WYE urged Germany to repudate the Hohenzollerns
" her that surrender would not mean destruction.
We co-signators of treaty that properly i'm
posed PREPARATIONS and indemnies, but attitude, as
that of England, was judicial mot punitive.
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finally rid Of its ancient vengeances.
We supported the stripping of Heigoland and Metz.
the drawing of Essens teeth the Decentralization Of
KEEL the ALLEGATION of navy and the reduction Of armies
to mere policing strength.
We approved the reconstruction of devastated regions
by the authors of that devastation the raising of the
ricoor Togoland Morocco and other colonial pos
sessions of the Reich.
France FOrgets It's Our Goose, Too.
ITHE allies owed us more than two billions. AS Eu-
ropes principal creditor, selfinterest dictated
operation in the collection of adequate fines from
those who had compelled the borrowing Of such vast
sums.
But above ALL we wished to have civilization realize
the ambition which led US across seashope Of universal
concordthe settlement of differences by arbitration
and the end of the mailed fist
| If sentiment since opposes local membership in
World Court, League of Nations, that conviction
is intensified by the recent trend of European diplomacy
The majority of citizens have faith in the unseH
Our request for survey of German wealth to the end
that the guilty may be kept alive to lay repara
tons eggs is answered by warnings to mind bust
Won BetlanoGnn HOlLuUeg Said 1t Differently.
WV AILE continue stagger under prosratng taxes
w the present French government fearing dismissal
w. by majority of small property holders fOrbears
to touch incomes.
-Four billions of our dollars have been applied to the
building irresistible air fleets the constant enlargement
of military establishment and to change Poland into
friendly armed camp.
British complaint that French policies are retarding
world recovery depressing agricultural and manufacturing
markets. and creating unemployment, met with thny
yelled threats and mpudent propositions to substitute
American and English pockets for German.
Paris is confident that London and Washington yet
be finessed into cancelng all indebtedness Heaven
veg was crude and blunt.
He said scraps of paper"
Treasure Quests and Pirate Chests.
mr. COOLIDGE passes the buck to Governor Pinchot.
WI It's possible that he is also passing him the oppor
could ask for better plank than the settlement OF the an
thracite feud
Pinchot is Progressive strong Roosevetian, accept
ardently admired prohibOnlStS