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dustries, but is she doing it? Plainly
it can be seen she Is not. Things do
not work out automatically like that.
They never follow so logical q course.
1t should not be forgotten that the
German is a most capable and patri-
otic business man from the stand
point of Prussia, works longer hours.
does more for his government than
any other citizen in Europe. What
would any man do IL he were Ger
man? When SHINES offered to re-
store the destroyed regions of Franco
with German material and German
workmen, France would not hear of
1t. She would not have German work
men on French soil competing with
French workmen. Does any one
think that the Germans will submit
to French military domination in the
Ruhr? France has seized the best
asset of her defiant and angry debtor.
VIII the Germans submit to it? L
think not.
The franc has gone up in value be-
cause the Paris government has gone
to the Ruhr, but il France destroys
the Industrial life of Germany, Will
it not deepen the hatred and the i'm
possibility of payment of reparatlons?
She has under her control the best
coal deposit of Europe and Poland has
in Upper Silesia a mining region OF
immense yalue-bOth got by the late
war.
Sympathy Due France.
If France had been guaranteed ter
ritorial security she would not now
States would not abide by the terms
of the two nations treaty of English
speaking affilia tions, and Great Brit
ain did not Sympathy must be felt
for France that her territorial secur-
'ty was not guaranteed and | cannot
understand why the British govern
ment has not done SO. II France is
defeated. Great Britain will suffer
vastly. and she has no wish to suffer.
She never had a rigid alliance with
France at all. and she is against
alliances but these are not times to
consider punctilious of national feel
ings. Great Britain hated conscrip-
ton as the United States hated it, yet
in the time of war they applied 1t,
and we are yet engaged in war and
the rigid etiquette of national habit
should stand aside.
If France would leave the Ruhr on
the assurance of British support, it
would be we'll worth while, for the
trade of Europe would be restored
and in case of future war the
a
before, they would stand by civiliza-
tion and against attacks on de-
mocracy. If I were British prime
minister l would stake my political
life on that assurance. for France
would then diminish her army and
Washington conference would be met
But the league of nations, il the
United States were in 1t, could secure
the borders of France against Ger
arrangement be made which does not
stultify the action of the American
government in regard to the league
being linked with the treaty of YER
sailles?
FriendshIp Must Endure.
Great Britain and France must be
friends. and they are friends. and this
Ruhr adventure cannot and shall not
break that friendship.
Great Britain has made serious err
rors. Why did she take control of
| Palestine and accept the mandate of
| Mesopotamia? 1t has cost Great
Britain hundreds of millions of
pounds. and. as Lord Birkenhead
pointed out in the upper chamber a
of any nation Of Europe because our
inferior supply of airplanes are all in
/ the east bearing the white mans
/; burden. We have only 371 airplanes
! in England against Frances 1850, and
! we have only five squadrons for home
| defense against Frances sixty-four.
| Twice as many airplanes as used for
| defending Bagdad as for all England
F., and Scotland, and two-thirds of our
| airplanes are overseas. We have no
fear that France would take advan-
/: tage of her superiority, but no self
respecting nation should be dependent
/, on the good will of her neighbor.
! Is there a Jew making a living in
| London or New York or Paris or any
[ other city going to Palestine to be
farmer? Not more than one-tenth
1 of the citizens OF Palestine are Jews
and yet the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert
l Samuel. an able man and a Jew, is
| sent as governor. If France is. to my
| mind, doing a disservice to the world
! in the Ruhr. Great Britain has done
! by shouldering this burden in the east
| which and other Britishers are pay
/ ing for in the heaviest taxes that any
| nation Of the world pays and can pay
He Would Quit Palestine.
! If / had my way-and it is the
! mind of the mass of the British peo-
pIe-I would leave Palestine and the
Mosul tomorrow, and let the world
1 take it's share of the common re-
advantage in occupying Palestine OIL
! the region of Bagdad, 1 might say
less. though i would be against il
| even on that ground. but the Pales-
tine responsibility has not even the
| support of the Jewish communities
1 of the world.
| Germany cannot rely on the aid oil
Great Britain and the United States
/! in helping her to avoid her paymen,
F., Of reparations. There is not a sane
| man in Great Britain that desires ar
| abandonment of German reparations
I a 70 c
as the United States has given Great
| Britain, she can and must. pay. Nc
1 one who has seen the devastated ter
ritories of France can have any feel
ing but one that Germany should
| make reparations to the utmost OF
pressed the mark, and she is paying
| the price of it now: that is all.
| Neither Germany nor France has
decided what is the final amount that
| the German empire must pay. II
| is chaos.
Greek Course Called Mistake.
Great Britain also made a great
mistake in asking the Greeks to take
Asia Minor, and then on the defeat
| of the Greeks by the Turks leaving
them to their fate. That is one OF
the reasons why the late prime min
lister. Lloyd George, was SO badly
| defeated in the recent elections. He
\ has lIty-lO lOliOWcTS III the mouse
| of commons, Mr.. Asquith has sixty
and the official opposition is not
| liberal but labor. 1t Is not true, as
has been stated, that the French
would willingly have Mahomedar
revolt against England because
France has an immense Mahomedan
population, and any politica1-religious
war would affect her as well: but II
is clear that they fell apart when
France left Great Britain to face the
| Turkish troops at the Dardanelles
and Constantinople, and Frances en-.
| trance into the Ruhr completed the
official estrangement.