Evening star., 1923-01-26
j. s. STAND|NGPAT
ON VIEW OF RUHR
France and Germany Too
Set in Policies to Listen
to Outsider.
TRADE CIRCLES STIRRED
Borah's Resolve Threatens to Bring
New Storm in the
Senate.
TRADE CIRCLES STIRRED
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Both France and Germany are too
tensely set In the carrying out Of
their present policies In the Ruhr 70
listen to any outside suggestion, So
no government is attempting to per.
suade either side to consent to peace
negotiations.
ihls Is the latest information from
the Department Of State TODAY II
anything is going on informally in
the realm, of diplomacy abroad. the
american government has not heard
OF 1t. This means that no government
mas the temerity at present to call
on France and Germany publicly mr.
privately to cease their war OF ex-
naustion, and that the two policies
or coercion and passive resjstancc
must run their course.
|. Trade Circles Alarmed.
Meanwhiie the affect on American
eraoe Is causing much concern. And
senator Borah and members of the
Iarm bloc are growing restiye again
at the administrations hesitancy to
GaI an economi. conference. Mr.
@ Soras Is very much In earnest in his
peller that the American government
snopld protest against the invasion
or the Ruhr. and should formally call
an economic conference where the
French would be summoned before
their case. Mr.. Borah is one of those
VINO believes the French have yiolat-
ed their own treaties and that an i'm
partial examination in a world trf-
Dunal would prove it. But his main
thought is that the American govern
ment should be actively exerting its
influence either by a formal protest
or by a meeting OF all powers for the
revision of the existing order and a
return 70 methods OF moral, rather
than physical, force.
r Conference Now Futile.
The administration, thinks an eco
be futile. If neither France nor Ger
many cares to recede from its pres
ent policy and yield to informal
mediation. would France especially
be any more disposed to accept an
invitation to a world economic con-
ference? This would be equivalent to
consent that the Ruhr problem and
other phases of the reparation con-
troversy shall be submitted for a
new discussion and new set Of rules
and regulations. France insists that
the present rules are adequate II only
they can be enforced, and she Is just
now engaged in proving to Germany
that they can be enforced.
Storm Rising I'm Senate.
The storm in the Senate is rising.
The administration Is not anxious to
precipitate a controversy with the
numerous factions in the Senate and
jective that would appear to be Of
any ultimate good nothing at all is
being done.
Secretary Hughes is at the moment
the advantage of documents as we'll
as an intimate knowledge of just what
the diplomatic situation Is in Europe.
His letter to Senator Lodge, telling
exactly what Roland Boyden has done
as unofficial observer, on the repara-
tions commission clears up many
doubts and shows that Mr.. Boyden
was not meddling, but simply trying
to keep the sharp distinction between
official representative ana unofficial
observer and that he has not yet COM
mitted the American government to
any opinions on the merits of the
reparations controversy.
Wants More Power.
Mr.. Hughes would like to see the
President Of the United States would
have the discretionary power at any
time to send an American representa-
tive to attend officially or refrain from
tions commission. Whether the "irre-
concilables" would permit this is an
other question. The administration
doesn't feel that the need of an official
representative on the commission is
at this time acute, SO is not pressing
for the required authority. Mr.. Hughes
still believes that the way out Of the
whole thing is not by any new action
Of the reparations commission, but by
the acceptance of his original sugges-
ton that a commission Of bankers and
experts from each of the big powers
get together to discuss and recommend
a solution.
(Copyright, 1921