Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 4 | The Ruhr Tangle

be sure to follow. Lord Curzon, in the following fol-lowing curt words, warns . that the British and French must make a definite division if the tatter's policy continues: "In spite of wholesale seizures, the occupation occu-pation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium has produced, at great loss, less receipts for the allies than were forthcoming in the previous pre-vious year." The British, It Is safe to presume, may adopt still more positive methods. The world may see an economic alliance with Germany and ' the 'withdrawal of British troops from the Rhine together with a demand for a settlement settle-ment of Hs rights in the German amounts already paid, exacting from France payment of the interest on its French debt covered by a loo per cent transfer of the German reparation repara-tion payments credited to France. With only France remaining in the Rhine-land Rhine-land and the remainder of the world anxious for peace, Poincare, who already is referred to as the "man on horseback," may put a war-weary nation in a particularly unfavorable position before the world. 4 t : The Ruhr .Tangle RANCE'S answer to England's note on Ihe - German reparations -question brutal in its frankness brings the settlement of the European problem no nearer, except as Lord Curzon sepaates the sickly sentiment of the Versailles treaty and the facts confronting the entente. Either French politicians must alter their present policy or the world may expect to see alliances formed that will put the French republic much in the same light as during Napoleon's time. All European nations must sacrifice In the struggle for peace. This country has well settled the assumption of France that the American people will shoulder the expenses of t'-e war by canceling war debts and then f.r.iacxg World war bond issues that would