Evening star., 1923-06-17
GERMAN PROMISES
ED4NSUFFC|ENT
Tardieu Declares Productive
Gage Necessary Before
Occupation Ceases.
RESISTANCE MUST END
France Will Not Treat With Berlin
So Long as Opposition in
Ruhr Continues.
RESISTANCE MUST END
BN ANDRE TARDIEt.
FORMER High commissioner 10
Amertc.n.

By cara" 20 The star
pARIS. June l6--Francc cannot ac-
cent amy German promises I" p"% we
have tried that before and it has not
worked. =
France must hold productive gage
in GERMANY. The Ruhr is not rro-
Guctive, The reason it is not pro-
uurtive is because the Berlin govern
meut issued orders for passive re-
Sistanre This. resistance is continu-
ir.y Until IL is ended Franc" cannot
treat with Germany.
l.uglaud would do well TO rehem-
hel this and if she wants TO prlhS an
c'.d t. the ~ eS"nt situa li"n & snS
should Join with France ana Belgium
in demanding that Berlin issue orders
calrceling the passive resistance. II
i said that the resistance would con-
ttuur through voluntary acts OF lhe
ritiztnry. but this remains to Ee seen.
Certainly il Will not cease so iohs as
the Berlin orders stand
Order Still stands.
England. seems surprised that
France and Belgium should have
asked that Germany be required to
abandon passive resistance IN the
I.uhr before her latest proposals are
examined II was al first thought
-h,t Prime Minister Baldwin'S cabl-
net thought the Berlin government
iururahlr OF ending the resistance
but this is denied.
The German government part IN
or-e,nizinG the obstruction TO the
Franco Belgian occupation oi the
Ruhr is perfectly plain. The orders
from Berlin to government employees,
railway workmeu and manufacturers
have been published in every tanu;
ThCSc orders can be countermanued
H., Berlin aud the French and Bel-
e IAN governments have an undouhted
rieh: TO demand this satisfaction be
fore going further with any neSotia-
ti"nS.
sees No Concerted Fight.
Despite a continuance Of nocturnal
a.saSsinations there is nothing 10
indicate a great wave OF natondi
feeling in the Ruhr against the
French and BelgianS. Certainly there
j. no wave Of feeling that oNerrldes
personal danger. There are no re
volts or riots against the occupants
nothing hut individual acts IN
which the police, significantly. take a
leading part. This being so. il is not
toe much to ask the German state
authorities to relax the tension OF re
sfStance which il itself created-and
III, British government would be we'll
advised 10 join France and Belgium
in this demand.
Interailied cooperation might
achieve the abandonment of the pas
size resistance. but, OF course, even
thai would not mean an agreement
az. the fundamentals of this whole
question of German reparations.
New Element Needed.
Eyerythng today indicates that the
British government still is cllnglns to
the Bonar Law memorandum of Janu-
arr last 1t was because they deemed
nj I'm N W =
hlr that the French and BelgianS oc-
Cupi,d the Ruhr.
How then can France and Belgium.
after occupation. accept today what
thrV rejected five months ago?
The only way to reopen or reJuve-
mate this whole question would he
to Introduce a new element into 1t.
Thor is only one such element-an
cXnioitation Of the Rhur, controlled
l. ,i"rman creditors. to collect d
guaranteed annual sum.
THAT is what Premier PoinCare had
in mind ir 1922 when he spoke of a
'productivc gage. But there can't
lie II productive gage without organ
lied production. TIE diSorganiZation
rt production we are witnessing to-
day is the result of the weak. wob-
bling methods used by France during
ths occupation.
Little Choice Left.
When France and Belgium marched d
Into the Ruhr and said the occupa
ti"u was not poiitica! or military.
and when NJ. Coste. chief of the en-
gineering commission, told the Ger
man industries that they were not
under French law, but German law.
the whole success of the movement
va graNely handicapped: And all
the Gif!.Cuitirs experienced since that
tim" were rendered possible.
France either must make the pro
ductiN. gage" she has seized in the
Fuhr pay, or she must go back to
III" method of accepting German
I'r"miSeS-a method which proved
useless. as all the world knows There
isn't much choice in that | do not
know that the French and Belgian
governments actually realize this
dilemma, but there it is.
As for England. she would be un-
Wis" to try to prolong the existing
situation in the Ruhr; by lending
comfort to Germany. In her own in
rest. and for the sueeess of her
program Of final settlement" she
should desire that the Itaihr ecuupa-
tl"n reach a satisfactory solution
otherwise We soon win b,: running
around III circles again, just as we
did for three long years.