Evening star., 1925-11-23
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
FOR PEACE IN RIFF.
All Parties Sick of War, But
No Basis of Meeting Has
Yet Been Found.
RY VINCENT SHEEAN

Special CORRESPONDENT OF The star and North
American Nrw-papr. Alliance with the
RiG AsuIn-.
I'ARIS. November 23.-It is now
possible to sly. without undue OPP
timism. }hat thclc i Il good chance
That peace VIII come dis Winter hy
ARRANGEMENT between France. Spain
and AbG- -vi-ktim.
Ahd-cl-krim Is ready Ia make
peace with his European enemies
Immediately ON terms which. in gen
erul cau he itscribei as very near
10 the French aud spanish demands.
The Eitf ttiri makes only one eS-
scut.Jl condition for an arniS.iCe. 4
lrolulS" To recognize his country :
identity and tn grant the fullest
measure Of iadcreudcuee within the
limits ut possibility. That i. how
even. an uualH er.a h!e condition. and
unless 81 definite agreement is made
frr the recu-uitipu OF rhc Riff, Their"
can hc no conversation on any other
point.
Ready for Pact.
Any time Jhat France and Span
a." wii.Mg yea recognize the com
p)cte liberty ut the R!f State, ADD
eI-klim and his brother. Sidi Mo-
haWmvl. are ready TO declare an
aImistice and enter into peace con-
yrrsttIuus.
Thor- exists the iutlal difficulty as
t. the manner Of bringing the bel
li@rrerl~ into contact, but ON the
definitions ul iudeueuGeUee and the
territory or the Ran stale there L.
remarkably l,Ne difference between
tLri4
SidI Mohammei realizes this
frankly. He ~aiG To me the last time
! saw him:
THIS personal message I would
like To send tu raIuleve. l have re
tanned a most agreeable recollection
of my meeting with him in Paris
and ! have never surrendered my
confidence in the mobility OF his
ideals, his complete good faith and
his devotion To justice and liberty.
Would Meet Representative.
If | could meet rainlevr and dis
CuSS AN ARRANGEMENT for peace | am
confident tuat peace would come
quickly AS il is probably impossible
for fdinscEc 20 come t. Aiu.u.pu,
would ht happy to meet with any of
his OWN Cul!aoulatOrS. any man Of the
same ideas dud the same generous de
vOuun to humanitarian principles, any
man possessing the complete personal
confidence" of FainleVe. Such a meet
ins could take place 1T Ajdir, Wezzan
or even TanGieT.
"It seems TO me that if is the duty
Of all nf liz to avoid, if possible, any
further waste Of money and human
lives in a war which none of Us de
sired and which i leading nowhere"
This personal and informal mes
which must not he regarded as
official-I have delivered TO the
premier.
II j. ,,,,,I l,ar3ar :, ,,.l-a ,,aaoa
than to make war, as all three parties
In the Moroccan imbrogHo are har-
raSSed hy Vigileut opposition forces.
All Want Peace.
Nhd cl-Krim has less Of this than
either Primo de Rivera or Fainleve
but even i'm the Riff. there exists an eX.
tTeme nationalist group, which vii.
ohstruct any effort At peacamakins
if possible. obstruction in France
and Spain is certainly inevitable, but
the impression given by my various
interviews both inside and outside
the Riff. is that at present the gov
erumentS of the TIN lee nations differ
very slightly in their essential ideas
of the problem, and that all three
share the desire to end the war. how
ever and whenever they can without
loss of prestige
That banefU. word prestige repre-
sents the principal enemy of peace.
on account of prestige none of the
three leaders involvd can risk ruin
by the taking the first step toward an
armistiCe. Whichever one did SO
would Immediately be accused of de
featism" and lack Of patriotism by
rabid nationalist groups.
The only one OF the three govern
ments which can he considered fairly