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Show TARED PUTS BLAME UPON LLOYD GEORGE Statesman Declares London and Paris Accord Is Vital Ry AMiKI T IBDIBU, Formes1 French High Commissi oner bo the i oite i states (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) PARIS, Dec 3 0. Does the year snd better than it began? Neither for France nor for Europe can the question be answered affirmatively. affirm-atively. Throughout 1 922 France continued to borrow to repair the ruins caused by German aggression. She already i has spent In this way for reconstruction reconstruc-tion nnd p.-nslons more than eighty billion francs plus expenses of tho larmy of occupation The debt ser-Vice ser-Vice absorbs over thirteen billion I francs annually not counting our foreign for-eign debt upon which wc have not .vet paid nny interest, All that we have collected from Germany is 1,720.000,000 gold marks These receipts which amounted to an average of 63.000.000 monthly In 1920-21 fell to 22.000.000 during 1922. 'Reparations In kind, except coal are going badly and as a consequence I France must borrow continually while ! taxes have risen from four and one-half one-half billion francs in 1913 to twenty-one twenty-one billions In 1922. They cannot be Increased indefinitely. Even so the debt service shows a deficit in 1923 budget of over four billions. SITUATION WORSE, This shows our situation during the past year grew worse instead of bet-Iter. bet-Iter. Will the coming Paris conference confer-ence show improvement either financial finan-cial or political? It would be Yash to say so. Tho discord between France and Britain has been demonstrated In tho reparations commission, where I Bradbury the English representative, j with strange partiality refused to agree with his colleagues that Ger-many Ger-many had failed In deliveries In kind although this fact was obvluus. Lioyii George, by imposing sacrifices sacri-fices on France for two years without offering tho slightest compensation Is the prime author of the crisis In Anglo-French relations. France, by her jpro-Turk attitude In 1921-22 committed commit-ted similar errors which happily wore somewhat retrieved at Lausanne. I Novertheless London and Paris are far from Intimate agreement which ils an Indispensable condition to European Eu-ropean equilibrium Considering this dlsassot iatlon of the entente premier Mussolini asked, not without reason, wherein tho disagreement consisted. BERLLX VXI MOSCOW; Those conquerod in 1913 aro showing show-ing disquieting activity in 1922. The Rapallo treaty revealed the closeness of Moscow's relations .with Berlin whereof a thousand new symptom? are cuihiuk iuio HVIUOUOO, j ue re ait Is a close relationship between th-KemallStS th-KemallStS and the soviet and through them with Berlin. Worse yet, the revenge re-venge Idea which course ha3 animated these three governments seems cap-ablo cap-ablo of practical realization since the Turks effaced their defeat, reinstated themselves in Europe, re-took . Constantinople Con-stantinople and eastern Thrace and eliminated effective control of tho straits by the western powers Russian and German Nationalism, encouraged by tho Komallst successes is awake. The German press Is fi led with provocative paragraphs. Tchlt-cherln's Tchlt-cherln's attitude at Eausanne is equally equal-ly disturbing. All this ll happening In an unor-ganlc unor-ganlc Europe Only the llttlo entente ccuntrles seem to understand that safety lies In unlt and this unity enables en-ables them moreover to restore thom-' thom-' selves economically. On the other hand the status of tho relations bell be-ll ween them and tho western powers, England. France Italy and Belgium ono Is undefined Wo have lived from day to day without defining any base for argument ani not preparing for jany There Is no continental policy any more than a policy between the I continent and the Anglo-Saxons. In 1914. Europe, despite Its shaklness. v.as bettor orderod than In 1922. Thero Is urnplo room In this chaos for great offorts and great results, but there can't be results until there le a will for thern. Will bring If |