Evening star., 1923-07-29
COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY
MAY NULL ALLY PLANS
Should Threatened Upheavals Event
uate Reparations Issue Will Fall
Before Greater Ones.

the application of remedies designed
to cure evils of present disorganiza-
tion over the continent.
Premier Baldwin ten days ago dis
patched to Paris his idea of what the
allies should stipulate in their reply
From Paris and Brussels have gone
forth replies to the British view
point.
London today is striving to recon-
cile them to the announced British
policy of reparations.
According to intimations that
have>reached Washington this can
not be done.
England will have to negotiate
nouncing her position of leniency
to Germany and a fixed sum of repa-
rations with reasonable payments
within Germany's ability or England
will have to sever her negotiations
with France and deal with Germany
individually.
For, it is reported, Poincare with
the backing of Theunis has not
swerved from his demands of last
stated that the minimum sum of rep
arations should be 132.000.000. 900
gold marks Approximately $33.000.
0O.000), sum which England in
sists is impossible of fulfillment.
Furthermore. Poincare Is declared
to have communicated he will at
tempt no negotiations of whatsoever
character until the Germans have
ended their passive resistance and
admitted defeat.
Opposes Commission Plan.
Furthermore. Poincare is opposed to
ability to pay, If that commission is to
any wise determine the total amount
or in any wise supercede the repara-
tions commission in it's findings.
Furthermore. Premier Poincare is un-
alterably opposed to modification of
the Ruhr occupation. He insists that
there never shall be complete with
drawal until the reparations bills are
paid by the Germans. The only ground
of negotiations would be on the ques-
with German payments.
In other words, though it has been
announced that the French have agreed
to some of the British proposals it may
be stated that the French have not al
tered their original premises. and, un-
less they are altered materially. there
can be no hope of reconciling the Brit
ish y, and French viewpoints:
not pay the sums stipulated in the
London conference. because of the
French position in the Rhur.
1t is folly to insist. they claim.
furthermore. they assert that a COM
mission should be formed to weigh
Germany's economic and financial sit
uatIon. set sum with reasonably
chance of fulfllment. give Germany a
chance to restore her Industrial house
and put her financial system in order
before attempting major payments. a
Thing not possible with occupa tion of
the Ruhr and the Rhineland. England
declares further that the whole ques-
.ion should not be associated with
tne question of interallied debts. a
thing greatly desired by the French
who. 1t is declared. believe that Eng
land eventually will surrender her
creoits 70 France for some degree of
proer within Germany. England would
nave the Germans end passive resis-
lance but on the other hand she would
nave the French and the Belgians with
draw, at least make their occupation
invlsiole Premiere Poincare has
est reply to England. that this cannot
De. From one source, 1t is declared
mat France will reject the withdrawaI
Idea, even though England and the
United States should guarantee s,,nS
port to France in times of danger froI,,
Germany. iioiii
Busfness Wants Settlement
AS negotiations have progressed
there have been increasing demands
on on tne Ep part Of the business interests
et Stand Ednsiand ian, that Premier Baldwin
s.and nrm on his enunciated plat
FORM of re-adjusting continental con
ditlonS through the modification nf
Ruhr policies. They likewise insist
tnat II france ever delays some con-
crete plans of settlement, or shows
disposition to dodge early SETTLE
ment with possible consequent dang
ers OF dfsorganized and chaotic Ger
many, that England waste no time
and negotiate with the Germans di-
rectly. 1t is not believed in Wash
ington that Premier Baldwin can
resist the tremendous national tides
moving In favor of immediate set
Elements, much as the die hards' or
pro- French elements of English poIi.
pursued.
Should events in Germany eventu-
ate as the British believe and as
washington has been Informed:
should the Reich completely collapse
through revolutionary activities of
the communists or an era of pro-
longed civil war be ushered in, pres
ent plans of Premiers Baldwin and
Pofncare will be futile. The com
plexfon of the whole situation will
have been so changed that the allies
Will be forced to act as a unit in re-
adjusting the whole situation. The
question Of reparations indeed will
be puny one compared to the
problem of steming communist tides
from the east and cooperative effort
of Russia and Germany to sway po-
litical courses on the continent.