Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-29
YEAR OF INDIGESTION
|NEUROPE IS CITED
Tardieu Tells Why Worlds
Problems Remain UnsoIved
at End of 1924.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
BY Radio to The Star.


PARIS, December 29.--The year
1924 Is coming to an end and it cam
not be said to have been decisive
year in any way.
Germany has had two elections,
with such an indecisive result that
Its cabinet is yet to be formed. Italy
has hesitated throughout the year, be-
tween the overthrow of Premier Mus
solini and the consolidation of his
power. Belgium has maintained its
equilibrium only by precarious coali-
lions in which the governing parties
have been obliged to submerge their
principles. England. within the past
IL months, has passed from a con-
serVatiVe to Labor regime and back
again. while in France former
Premier Poincare's hesitant and
aenemic policy has brought about a
combination under the Liberal flag,
but dominated by socialism, which
SHOWS its inconsistence by installing
a soviet representative in the Rus
sian embassy at Paris, and simultane-
usly ordering repressive measures
against the French communists
Fragile Programs the Rule.
Other examples might be cited. but
these suffice TO show how fragile are
the programs which, the present leaders
propose as expressing the popular will.
Inc people, apparently, don't know
what they want, or, what amounts to
the same thing, they want something
different every day
That is why the world problems re-
main unsolved. The reparations prob
lem is unsolved. The Dawes plan has
been adopted as the final solution, but
Germany, after getting an $500. 900, 900
loan, which is all that the Dawes plan
has accomplished so far, is thus far de-
laying putting the plan into execution,
Tor reasons more political than financial.
The disarmament OF Germany has
not progressed. II has even gone back
ward since the occupation OF the Ruhr,
which Raymond Poincare executed so
Intellectually. The problem of security
has given birth to various solutions
none of which has been adopted Both
the Cecil pact and the Geneva protocol
have gone by the board. The inter
allied debts are far from being settled
practically, and are giving rise to
heated newspaper discussions
Problems Not Yet Solved.
The problem of the relations OF the
bourgeois states with the Soviets has
been treated in a different manner in
each country. The problem of the
economic reconstruction of Europe, like
wise, has not found a solution. Ger
many alone has benefited by the as
sistance which the world has rushed to
give her Despite all predictions,
neither France nor England has gained
by Geruany's new-found prosperity.
We have been told to forget the
war, forget its causes, forget the vic
tory. and All will be we'll But it
seems to have been proved that this
does not suffice. The victory has been
forgotten, largely, and the men sup
posed To have participated in it have
been pushed aside in nearly all the al
lied countries. The power is now held
by those who did not help and even
hindered. To cite only two examples,
England has had Ramsay Macdonald,
and France has had CaiilauX. But the
IDEAS of these self styled realists have
failed to attain their objects.
Germany's state of mind has not
changed, despite the stabilize ton of her
currency, and the Suviets. who, we were
told. would behave when they We're
taken into good society, have only be-
come more arrogant. Thus, our ped
dlers of universal love- are having
great difficulty in disppsing Of their
wares, and after five years. we are rap
idly learning that peace can be achieved
only as the war itself was won-by
hard, self sacrificing and united action.
We might wish this lesson had been
learned earlier but nothing Is more
vain than recrimination, and we must
look forward instead of into tie past.
The future will belong to those coun
tries which put empty theories aside
TO look facts in the face and cali things
by their real names.
Many times in history. order has
come from disorder and action from
negation in just this way. Let US trust
the new year will bring US this good
fortune.
Copyright, 1921