Evening star., 1924-08-03
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN
IN II HERRIOT, premier of France,
|" has defiied Poincare And,

II by SO doing, he has severed
the Gordian knot tying the
hands of participants in the London
conference on the Dawes report
Successful application of the
scheme. devised chiefly by American
ingenuity. in the settlement of the
reparations difficulties which have
kept Europe ,impasse since the war,
may be expected to be initiated with
in the course of the next few months.
With the 5000, ,00O,0 900 loan to be ex-
tended to Germany and economic re-
covery assured through sane applica-
tion of exactions on account of repa-
rations, Germany within the course of
the next decade may be expected to
become going concern. In becoming
SO the economic and financial welfare
of the continent at large will be en-
hanced. Germany will prosper, for,
with busine sslike application of the
Dawes report will come an end to
pickering and strife. True, there
| will be dangerous national suspicion.
France will be ever ready to charge
Germany with attempts to dodge her
obligations, and Germany, on the
other hand, constantly will remain on
the alert to cite alleged unwarranted
exactions and sanctions, but it is be-
| lieved that the very structure of the
| m machinery to be established through
the medium of the Dawes report
eventually will eliminate the things
that have stirred strife between the
| age-old enemies.
See End to Bickering.
| Furthermore. more optimistic OBJ
servers and students of the Dawes re
! port believe that before many years
! have elapsed there will have grown
up such an interlocking of economic
| interest between Germany and
France, and there will be such close
working to obtain successful solution
of all problems, that a greater spirit
! of trust will come. Germany and
France might then find their respec-
/ tive economic and financial pathways
should converge. If such thing ever
comes, and it is not without the
dreams of the industrial and financial
leaders of both Germany and France,
| then the fear of future wars may be
minimized. The Dawes report then
will have become the greatest instru-
ment devised by man in stabilization
| of conditions on the European conti-
| rent being always an effective check
| to recurrence of rampant nationalism.
And Students of world politics and
| economics avow that it will be only
| through some medium whereby the
may be shown that actual peace ever
will be achieved in Europe. Dreams
yet may be achieved, but before these
can come to pass the remaining
| shoals of the London conference must
| be passed, the governments signatory
/ to its decision must be given time to
! swing their nations effectively in line
and the Dawes scheme must become
an integral part of the political as
we'll as financial and economic life of
the continent.
| Compromises .UncomprOmisabIe bIe.'
That the London conference may
result in all that it was intended
was made possible through the atti-
| tude of Premier Herriot, who, after
| conferences with his closest advisers
and with Secretary Hughes, Ambas-
sador Kellogg and Col. John A. Lo-
| gan, finally decided to compromise
| the so-called "uncompromisable" ten
cts of former Premier Poincare and
his nationalistic followers in Paris