Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Borotra and Brugnon. Van Ryn'S show
ing both in singles and doubles was most
| f1attering to our hopes for the future
and the same is to be said as to French
hopes of the playing of Boushus in both
his matches and of the showing of De
Buzelet against the veteran Hunter
The match which engaged the most
lively attention was that between
Boushus, junior champion Of France,
and Coen, the 16-year-cld member of
our Davis Cup team, won by Boushus.
Geneva.-Apropos of Herr Muellers
speech of September Z to the League
Assembly and Council in joint session,
in which he demanded that the allies
disarm down to the German level or
allow Germany to arm up to theirs, and
one or t'other without delay, BRAND in
talk to correspondents the next day
invited attention to the necessity of Eu-
ropean provision against Russian men,
ace. and then he went on to call In
question the alleged military helpless
ness of Germany.
Germany, he asserted, has 100000
men trained to the hilt for non-com-
mlssloned Jobs and not less than 2,O00,-
600 men who took part in the late war
and are still fit for service: besides that
practically all the German youth $50 he
put it, have been trained or are being
trained in organizations which are
camoufiaged military training schools of
high efficiency. Finally, he spoke of
industrial potentialities for provision
OF required arms in short order"
On September 10, addressing Assem-
bly, and Council in joint session, Brian
answered Herr Mueller's speech. I'm
fortunately the cabled digests OF
Brands speech Gas of Herr Mueller's)
are meager, but apparently he told his
audience substantially what he had
told the correspondents as cited above
stressing the Russian menace as a rea-
son why allied reduction of ornaments
must needs be cautious and avoiding
TOO direct a reply to the German alter
native claim of the right to arm up to
allied levels Apparently Herr Muciler's
stark assertion (ascribable some shrewd
heads insists, to political exigences at
home) OF interchangeable moral iusti-
f1catlon for the German claims, set
BRANDS nerves on edge and accounts
1or an unWonted bruSqueness in his
speech, which appears to have been
taken In very bad part throughout Ger
many. But to say that on this occasion
BRAND repudiated Locarno, and that in
consequence of his speech, the near
rapprochement Gf the expression is al
loWable) between France and Germany
has been fatally compromised, is doubt
. less to make too much ado. No doubt
Germany though disappointed that her
chancellor should not be able to
swing it," will on reflection, and re-
calling the Treaty of Frankfort and its
sequel, find excuses for certain
French obstinacy despite loyalty In the
large to the spirit of Locarno) in re-
Spect of guarantees for security and
reparationS, and will concede that the
principle of mutual concessions may
after all be the ticket. In fact, hopeful
conversations on the side are being con-
Quoted on that, and not on a rhetorical
basis. To conclude; I think we may
say that Herr Mueller was most I'M
tactful, where much tact was "indi-
Gated" That BRAND. in reply, was far
less happily inspired than usual, but
that the fluttered dovecotes should soon
recover calm after the rhetorical blasts.
Most interesting were Brands refer
enceS in that speech to Moscow. Mos
COW, said he, In effect. blocks disarma-
ment by everywhere fomenting the men,
ace of civil conflict. The Russian prof.
ect for complete disarmament he called
"a theatrical gesture" Moscow, Of
course, is righteously indignant.
In the same speech BRAND announced
that the Franco British provisional
naval agreement, the rumors about
which have so Enthusiastically fiuttered the
world, would be submitted to the pre-
paratory disarmament commission and
would simultaneously be made public.
He declared there we're no secret under
standing in connection With it. and