The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-19
FRANCE LOOKS FOR
 GUIDANCE
 BY YOUNGER CHIEFS
Andre Tardieu Is Man Who Is Rapidly Forging to
 Front Ranks

PARIS, April 1S.-(By Associated Press.)-Look forward and not backward; build resolutely upward with no complaint about the past, and with complete faith in Frances power to accomplish results and overcome all obstacles, Is the battle cry of q Frenchman who Is rising
 on the political horizon and who, his friends say, will one day be prime minister of the republic. That man is Andre Tardieu. He is young only 46-active, buoyant. gripped with energy and vital force, and leader of the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies. He is well known in America, for he lectured at Harvard university some years ago and during the war was French high commissioner at Washington. No parliament in a republic would be real without an opposition, and the fact that Tardieu heads the party that keeps it's eye on every move of the cabinet does not mean that in these days of troublesome recon struction he is in any sense less
 patriotic than his fellow country men.
 Tardieu is moderate republican. He blieves that the majority of the chamber has been conducted by the governments since 1920 in way which properly safeguards neither the external nor the internal policies of France. and that the bureaucratic machinery of the old ante-war or ganization, which is out of sympathy with modern ideas of progress. is too influential. He believes that before the elections of next spring a which will be less disposed to bar gain with the Radicals, and put tEem in office, and which will open ly proclaim itself moderate. He Is convinced that the time has come when France should be governed by a younger generation, not neces sarily lawyers and orators. and that the school represented by Poincare. Barthou, Briand and CaillauX has lost touch with presentday realities. Su&l men, in his opinion, have been too close to the mental current of fear of Germany. He believes there is a place in France for stronger and more efficient policy both t home and abroad, because France is the strongest nation in Europe and must go resolutely forward to the attainment of results which shall be the final test of her greatness. He thinks that the French occupation of the Ruhr was insufficiently prepared and lacks adequate organization..
 The United States. which Tardieu KNOWS SD WGll, SliiheS mn II oiii thAo angle. He deems that an urgent need of the French people is that they should know America and Americans better. Much has been said, as he puts it, about Americans not understanding the French, but ignorance of the French concerning the United States. He would, there- fore, have more news come directly from the United States to France and less through London and Eng fish newspapers He believes that every leading newspaper of France should have it's own special corre- spondent in America, so that the people of France may have placed be- fore them a direct interpretation of American events, American pollcles and American aspirations. Converse ly, he favors the establishment In Paris of French bureau of informa- tion. He does not believe in propaganda. He knows France has nothing to hide, but he fears that the impress sion of Something to conceaI gets abroad because of the difficulty foreigners have in obtaining facts
 which interest them. He wants France to kick over bureaucratic
 methods in it's administrative life just as it crushed every obstacie when it organized and. with it's allies, won the great war.
 Such are some of the ideas Of younger France as represented by Tardieu. All France is watching him. Everybody seems convinced that until the Ruhr problem is settled in a way favorable to France. every Frenchman will stand solidly behind Poincare, and the existing government of France. But when
 this crisis is oyer younger leaders
 may be called to carry on the work of building the great France of the
 future, and it is then that Tardie,< friends expect to see him in tho front ranks.