Evening star., 1924-01-13
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

nee President Wilson went
to Europe and was hailed as
Messiah" about to deliver
the old world from its maze
of hatreds and jealousies and lead
the peoples of the continent to a new
era that would end forever the ter
rible sufferings experienced by all
during a four-year butchery, politely
called war.
Five years after the American war
leader finished his work, successful
or unsuccessful as it may have been
according to respective viewpoints,
Europe today is turning its eyes to
another American whose rough and
ready methods, whose keenness and
vision, already are recognized. That
american is none other than Gen.
Charles G. Dawes. already famous for
his aggressive but nevertheless eff
problems. Europe expects him to
lead the way toward complete set
1lement of the veXatious probe ems
existing between Germany and the
allied goVernments-probiems which,
if permitted to go on and on as they
have since the peace conference of
Versailles, are certain to lead to a
holocaust, more intense, more terri
BILE and more destructive than the
one that gripped the world from 1914
until late 1918.
Meet In Paris Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, in Paris, there will as
semble picked financial experts from
allied and associated nations to begin
a digest OF GernanyS ability to pay
the vast reparations account as
Sessed against her by the allied pre-
miers In their conference Of London,
a total aggregating $4,000, 600, 900
gold marks-a total which wiser
economists of the world have insist
wrecking the whole economic and
financial fabric Of the continent.
Germany's ability will be analyZed,
but the chemicals of politics, racial
will be discarded. Under the leader
ship Of Gen. Dawes the financial ex
perts will go to the very bottom of
Germans present and past pas. financial
mental expenses, pry into capital ex-
portations, will determine just what
Germany has in the way Of economic
and financial assets and how Germany
incurred through the war. Further
more, there must be effected some sys-
tenn whereby Germany can pay the
sums considered just. 1t may lead to
or Germany will be forced to com
plete her payments at once. But this
contingency is considered so far be-
yond the realm of possibility that al
ready the likelihood of an interna-
tional loan and a moratorium Is
being considered as the way out Of
the present chaotic condition-that is,
II Germany ever settles her just ac-
counts.
French Viewpoint Changes.
Britain from the very first has in
sisted that there be some leeway for
Germany. This always has been re-
sisted and was further complicated by
the French occupation Of the Rhineland
and the Ruhr Considering advantages
gained and the cost of the French ad-
venture, it has been a failure, though
being an excellent means OF perpetual
ing the Poincare regime in Paris But
The French, en- masse. cannot be misled
forever. and as consequence the feel
many should be made to pay in SO far
as she Is able to pay. there must be
some modification in the French mill
tarists' thesis embracing, as 1t has, the
idea Of destroying Germany that French
security may be perpetuated.
The change in sentiment IN france
was graphically demonstrated In the
chamber Of deputies on Friday. when
NJ. Eerriot, leader of the liberal element
and a powerful figure in French poll
tics insisted that the financial experts,
about to assume their gigantic task. De
given free rein and be allowed to go as
far as they like in determining not only
Germany's ability to pay. but the exact
amount that ultimately should be ex-
acted. Instead Of being Missed and booed