Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-09
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

PARIS. - Franco German relations
are once more passing through a period
of trouble.
Two great protagonists, the recon-
Citation of one-Gustav Stresemann-
ended with his death. and that Of
Aristide BRAND is hobbled by the ma
tionaliSt views of the new French con-
sentative government.
The German nationalists have just
gathered enough signatures to obtain
the right to hold national plebiscite on
| a bill which amounts practically to
denunciation of the whole Versailles
! treaty, and the agitation on it in Ger
| many promises to continue for several
| months. Using this coming plebiscite
as pretext, the French nationalist are
| once more clamoring against German
ornaments and German danger gener-
ally. The time has temporarily passed
when the French press Systematically
belittled or suppressed all the news
| likely In any respect to fan French fears
of or resentment toward Germany.
Sees Plan for Invasion.
franklin Bouillon, one Of the most
eloquent and ablest of French Ma
tionalist deputies, had a big success
in the chamber Thursday with a speech
in which he declared categorically that
Germany is preparing the means for
a new invasion of France, to wit: That
there Is equipment at Trier Railway
station for 100 mobilization trains a
day and at Kaiserslauten station for
ITO trains; there are 10 new bridges
over the Rhine, concentration of all
necessary rolling stock can be effected
on many new strategic roads, govern
ment subsidized motor transport and
finally the construction Of new roads
between Coblenz and Luxembourg, ca
pable Of hurting two divisions almost
instantly at this point on the frontier.
The Germans are almost equally
pessimistic about France. The new
premier, Andre Tardieu, they keep re-
peating, was q collaboration and a ia
vorite second of Clemenceau and Poin-
care, while Maginot, the new minister
of war. held the same post during the
Ruhr occupation, and is known strongly
to favor the immediate strengthening
of the enfeebled French Army.
Suspicious Are Mutual.
The suspicious are mutual and pro-
found. The French think Germany
| Is going to temporize on the Young
| plan adoption. The Germans are equal
| ly sure that France Is going to tenn
| porize on the Rhineland evacuation.
The Left parties of both countries are
still confident and friendly toward one
another, but the German Right con-
| tinues to poison the German mind with
Self-pity and false desperation, while
the French Right Is now once more
buslly feeding the French mind with
fear Of the new German aggression.
This disturbance of the psychological
atmosphere comes just at time when
several important negotiations of pre-
| dominantly Franco-German character
are about to occur. First, there must
be q conference of governments for the
| final adoption Of the Young plan. No
| body now believes that this can be held
| before December, and it is liable to take
| place in an atmosphere embittered by
| agitation on one side to strengthen the
French Army and on the other to de-
| nounce the whole Versailles treaty.
The German Reichstag undoubtedly
will Immediately reject the Nationalist
bill, but then preparations for coun--
| try-wide plebiscite will be begun and
disturbances will continue. Already the
| final evacuation of the Rhineland has
been begun, but will troop movements
be now >hastened or delayed?
More Acrimony Seen.
Then after the governments adopt
the Young plan the French and Ger
man parliaments must ratify 1t, which
| will occasion more acrimonious debates.
Then there is the question of restituting
the Saar coal mines and territory to