Evening star., 1924-11-09
GERMAN OVERTURE
F.. BY FRANCE FEARED
Tardieu Believes This Is Gen.
eraI Tendency-Hopes
for Change.
BYsANDRE TARDIEu.
BY Radio to The Star,

by Radio to The Star.
PARIS, November S.-The American
election, following the British cleo
tion within Il few days, showed a
similar strong sweep to the right
Thus the whole Anglo Saxon world
is committed. for some years to- come,
to political and social conservatism
Without exaggerating the effects in
ternal politics may have on interna-
tional relations, one is obliged to con-
trast Frances marked tendency in
the opposite direction, and in Frances S
case it is foreign relations which
are chiefly concerned.
Certain British newspapers already
have showed some alarm. They Won
der WhC Their France, after her tiirta-
tionS with AngOra and Moscow. is
gong further to carry out CaillauX'S s
old proposal of a Franco-Ge rnla n
'Nnn"o hment. To tell the truth, Eng
lands own record in this is not abovr
.c.'. oarh. British policy in the last
i've years has been scarcely Franco
phile.
britain Irks French.
The British, by asking the French
To make more and more concessions
every year without Offering the
slightest compensation. have given
the average Frenchmas q feeling of
disappointment and ranCor. England
has thus lost the popularity she once
enjoyed here through comradeship in
arms, and French opinion has there
fore more re'dily approved certain
policies which in other circumstances
would have been promptly turned
town.
For. however clumsy England's
mistakes may have been, they do not
justify what is called "a continental
policy" which incidentally is mis-
named, since neither the little entente
nor Italy nor Spain indorse it.
Granting that France is justified in
feeling aggrievcd, that does not ex-
cuse her for launching into expert
mental policies which can only bring
disappointment.
Russia WnI.Not Pay.
Frenchmen saw at Lausanne what
complacenCy earned France. AS for
Moscow, France already has been
told that Russia does not have the
slightest Idea Of paying what she
owes France and the new Soviet en-
| hassy here will lie nothing but a
revolutionary propaganda bureau,
despite ali Official deni3is.
And now to be told by French
pacitists that France must next cul-
tiVate Germany. where every factory
I is busy making shells and every
school IS teaching revenge, is simply
madness. The writer does not be
lieve that the present French govern
IneRt has resolved TO adopt this pol
! icy, but tho extremists who form an
! important part of it's parliamentary
m ljority, are pushing in that direc-
ton, and it seems to be the general
tendency.
That is Frances present peril and
Anglo-SaXon countries are disturbed
without realizing that they are hard
. Is to blame. French opinion IS not
. yet aroused-the people do not re-
alizc that reprisals. when undertaken,
always go further than it was in
tended that they should Millcrand
( and Poincare. whom certain mis-
guided persons want to make chiefs
OF new conservative party. them
selves brought about this danger
which they are called on to react. In
less than four wears these gentle
men led France from recognition of
! WrangcP TO the Genoa conference
With the Sovicts, and from the Sevres
treaty with defeated Turkey to the
Lausanne treaty with the victorious
Angora government.
Rnps Foreign Policy.
Never was a foreign policy more
incoherent. and il is ridiculous 90
suppose that men who failed so mis-
erably when they had all the cards in
their hands can now lead an et-
fective opposition.
50, however the errors in France S
present policy may be deplored, there
is little Immediate hope for such a
reversal as has just been seen in
| England.
Tomorrows great task is to re-
cement among France, Great Britain
and the United States those ties
which only a few years ago made
these united nations such q tremen-
douS force for order in the world.
For this work of pacitication there
is need for leaders who can repair
past mistakes and prepare pro-
gram for the future.
Who shall be these leaders?