Evening star., 1923-07-29
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
ILL Germany's fate be writ
\NI ten in the blood of her

LII NSihdHS ldlc pc Will
M ten in the blood of her
own people?
Will chaotic social and
economic conditions. wrought by fl
nancial dislocation bring about sue
cessful communist upheavals and
complete disruption of the present
state?
VIII maneuverings and application
!, of theoretical political panaceas
prove as mere vaporings when weigh
ed against grim circumstances with
in Germany proper?
England declares that the hour for
reckoning is at hand in the Teutonic
realm.
France asserts that chaotic condi-
tions are fictitious. mere imagin-
ings-all designed to Illustrate all al
lied purposes in the matter of repara-
ttons.
France today is strong enough to
combat any trend in Germany.
England, dependent in measure
upon going continent, wants equl-
for the general veal. France today
in larger measure than any other
power dominates political thought of
the continent.
\ England in this sees menace to
her domain, her prestige and future
welfare.
Here in brief are the real reasons
for the tremendous hubub over set
Element of the reparations question
and abandonment of the French in
NaSion of the Ruhr.
Statemen of European chancellories
are striving to adjust the situation
that nationaliStic veal may be recon-
ciled to world advance.
1t all depends upon Germany to-
day, Germany tomorrow.
situation IL Critical.
And. if advices to Washington are
} to be credited, Germany soon, un-
favorabIy, will answer the riddle in
80 far as immediate settlements are
concerned, for Germany today is slip
ping into the quagmire of revolu-
tion-strife which shall swallow the
ambitions and hopes of all those who
have taken advantage of her d.
lemma. those Germans particularly
who have exploited their native land
and for selfish purpose prevented
Germany from meeting her obliga-
tionS, and consequently ushering in
an era of continental advance.
July 20. today, was set by the
communists as the time to initiate
throw the power of the national
socialists and the government. Only
by blood shall we be free is the
slogan which has been heralded
largely in Germany by the COM
1nunists as the real tocsin of conflict.
Throughout the realm there have
1been organized large communist or
ganizationS. ever ready to strike at
given signal of leaders. They. it is
declared. have but waited the psyche
logical time. With money valueleSs,
hopes curbed by the increasing eco
nomic demands. with labor conditions
growing more and more chaotic
through disturbance of the monetary
system and the consequent inability
of the industrial elements of the ma
tion to maintain their factories at
high pitch. the psychological time
appears at hand.
Demonstrations at Hand.
Throughout Germany today the
communists were to hold great demon
strations. The socialists-from whose
ranks there have been tens OF thou
sands of deserters recently. deSerters
who have gone to the active COM
muniStS-llkewiSe were to demon
strate. The government in Berlin,
fearful of the consequences, and be-
Heving a serious outbreak in any one
quarter might be the means of firing
OF German humanity. instructed it's
police and military forces to be ever
ready to strike. viciouSly and hard,
when the interests of the state are
hazarded
Notwithstanding this, the COM
munists have gone ahead with their
plans, and expect to initiate them at
any hour, even though plans for to-
udy nave Deen curta1leQ,
according to latest dispatches.
A communist Germany would be a
difficult thing to handle.
SO would monarchist regime.
Either is possible with revolution
, Most certainly either would null the
allied desire to collect reparations
from Germany as payment for war
time perfidies, unless
And the UNLESS is the very thing
Britain fears
Unless France spreads her we'll
organized military net over prac-
tically the whole of western Ger
many and esconcing herself in the
richest sections there to remain for
ever on the preteXt that France must
be paid at whatever hazard
England's political sun, indeed.
thus would set.
France would remain in the as
cendancy for a hundred years.
This is an added reason for the
caution which marks the nepotia-
t1ons now proceeding between Paris
and London as to proper methods of
meeting the German situation and