Evening star., 1925-01-21

Vice President of the United states
as one of its originators, the Amer
f, lean Government should not be per
mitted, for fear of entanglements, to
receive IA per cent share of the
proceeds OF that plan.
In the French view, if the plan
works as it's orisinators and oper-
ators believe it will, the question OF
entanglement cannot possibly arise,
and If the plan does not work out II
will be an open matter tor every
country interested in it's working TO
renounce it's share or try to recover
bv whatever means II thinks fit If
there is a difference of opinion on the
means to be employed, there was
during the Ruhr episode, the decision
of one power deos not in any way
involve the others. That is the situa-
tion as seen over here.
On one point, however, the allies
are congratulating themselves-that
they did not accept Ambassador kel-
logg's proposal that the agreement
should be made subject to ratification
| by the American Senate. If that
course had been taken, it is comment
ed IL might have been another five
years before Seymour Parker Gilbert,
the agent general for reparations,
charged with handing out the per
centages OF the proceeds, could have
got rid OF Wndt the NeTHldnS nav di =
ready paid and are paying.
Editor Criticixes Senators.
Stephane Lausanne, writing in the
Matin, says:
at is a fine thing to be an irrecon-
cilable like that fine man Senator
Borah and honest Senator Johnson.
But all the same one must not be Ir-
reconcilable without common sense,
logic and knowledge Of ones own in
terests.
Here is this little group which
killed the treaty of Versailles and
the League of Nations trying now to
kill the financial agreement reached
last week in Paris. What is their
motive-that the arrangement alien
ates American liberty and brings the
United States back into the cockpit of
European quarrels.
at is, first Of ALL astonishing that
the Senators who lead great Senator
ial commiss sions do not take the
trouble to read the text which they
are fighting. If Messrs Borah and
Johnson would take the trouble to
read the document they would find its
title harmless. 1t is AN Arrange
ment Relative to the Distribution Of
Annuities from the Dawes Plan In
cidentaIly let us remember that the
Dawes plan is of American origin.
| They will see that the whole part
about America is contained in sne-
Cial article so as to avoid any pol
luton with Europe. They viii see
even that each time a reference is
made TO all the contracting powers
care is taken to mention the allied
governments and the separate Gov
ernment OF the United States, so
that it may be quite clear the govern
ment of the United States does not
keep bad company. What more could
these gentlemen want?
Says Error Profound.
Certain cables from America tell
US that the European press, and above
all the French press, have shown
great joy at this understanding. 1t
must be because these newspapers in
terpreted II as thes return of America
into the European arena; 1t must be
because they believe they have
bound America TO European policy.
That is the profoundest error. The
French press is capable OF committing
errors. but since the lesson of 1919 II
will never again commit the error
of thinking America meek little lamb
which can be thrown into the arena
and tied without it's knowing.
France has certainly cause for re-
ioicing that the accord on the uues-
ltcii OL OlSlElDutlHB money HerlNed
from two separate claims has been
happily accomplished She Will al
ways rejoice at any accord with
America But to the irreconcilables
the word Europe is as a red rag to a
bull. Perhaps they are right But
when one sees them opposing treaties
which they themselves made newt
able and pushing their irreconcilabiI-
ity to the point of not being able to
ideas, they cannot deny US at least
the right to smile"