Evening star., 1923-08-19
The Story the Week Has Told

He declared for continuance Of passive resist
ance in the Ruhr so long as the present con-
ditions of occupation continue and added:
If the free and uprestrained administration
the Rhneland again is such as is guaranteed
by international treaties. II every Imprisoned
to liberty, then. after breathing spell has
been granted u.s. we shall be able. by exert
to furnish means for settlement of the repara-
tions questions. provided the burdens imposed
nomic iife''
There are those who discover in the above
dation. At any rate the speech was not vio-
lently intransigent. it did not mention 'French
must precede negotiations. Some will have it
that the chief cause of Cuno's fall his
extreme intransigence. which loudly asserted
that no initiative looking to a settlement would
issue from Berlin. They that an i'm
the socialists and Stresemann that the
latter would omit no effort consistent with
the self-respect of Germany to engage Poin-
care in conversations. But these matters
best left to time.
to concentrate on the internal problem of re-
Guilty. The main considerations Hereunder are
food. the currency. taxes and wages; all inti-
mately related to each other One hears that
German freight rates have been increased
1000 per cent But such an increase of freight
rates rates must boost post food prices enormously and
But where is the money for such increases
a policy of defation? And suppose one squeezes
the industrial magnates viii they not cur.
employment and starvation. or doies for the
unemployed? In whatever direction Stresemann
looks a grim terror looms At the happlest. a
period of acute crisis is "indica ted" A long
time will be required to weather it.
II should be observed, hSwever that repeat
unfairly declared Germany to be sacredly OBJ
to be able t paS o do so some on opmnts ar
fdent that stresemann soon will convince the
quately backed in that resolve to put Germany
on paying basis. and no less resolved (and
thereto adequately backed) that Germany
shall pay to the limit of her capacity. upon
which conviction they plausibly argue a
follow and the German turmoil subside
Meantime the crisis is on with food riots.
ad IN o%e rom e aS o ax but h
latest ones are hardly reassuring Important
discernible. All is much admired confusion in
On the same day on which Stresemann ac-
cepted office the British government pub
lshed its reply to the French governments
repiv to the he German reparations note of June
4. Poincare's reply to that reply will. under
pect to comment on the two documents in
next Sundays issue.
Russia.-An English translation of the text
of the constitution of the union of socialist
soviet republics has been given to the Amer
can public a careful study of this elaborate
document shows that control by the old guard
of Muscovte communists is ingeniousiy pro-
yided for.
The soviet authorities have banned Gin
derella" from the Russian stage: the reason be-
ing that princesses and such like vermin are
viii be glad to hear. however. that some
Shakespearean plays. The Bourgeois ldeology
Revised" are permitted.
Mcxico-On August Is the commissioners
representing the governments of the United
States and Mexico. who for many weeks had