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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, which they assert are Impossible. 'Grant. Ing the impossibility, however, what Is expected of the German politician la not pay a reasonable reparations total, but" a means by which Germany can escape payment. as to France, no ministry can Uva f All Conferences Since Ar- 'S and 'France, Drawn Into Vortex Continual Political 816,000,-000.0- nl bank-luptc- .9""! Infer-nation- al . We ship by truck within 50 miles FEES. within aoi rna... W. piep.r-tr.lg- t. : : ! Axelrads Superior tiic-fnvoril- -- elsewhere that the sum of German payments should be reduced to, say, but ths total of French payments should be maintained at Belgium Italy What use to tell the citlsens of a country with a smaller population and parttalljf ravaged territory that they by amust pay more than the neighbor whose territory la unravaged and containsthisa half again as large. Tet Talk. population Is what is demanded of Poincare. This Is what has been demanded of all recent French prime ministers, and all but one ef them have fallen because they By FRANK H. SIMONDS. were suspected of giving even limited Special to The Tribune. consent to such a suggestion. The British situation, however. Is little WASHINGTON, Aug. .20. With the different We have the recent Balfour passing of the London conference, the note to prove that Lloyd George, who fact becomes, at last, fairly clearly es I knows his electorate better than any livtabllshed that salvation by conference ing politician, does not dare ta tell the British taxpayer that he mu si pay the Is not possible Statisticians differ as United States and cancel what Europe to whether, wnce the original Faria owes him. The main profit In auch a It la the conference, the world or a major part transaction would be Brltlah of it haa met In eolemn conclave on the only disco 'arable way by which German can be reduced, British trade state of the universe fifteen times or reparations and industry restored and unemployment only thirteen Certainly the average clt reduced from Its present terrific height. aen of, the, western hemisphere would Tet Lloyd George, so far from daring make this explanation, agrees to the find It hard to name the cities which to Balfour note, which in substance repeats have lent their title to International the Poincare text, for Poincare says Gernot France, must pay, and the Balgatherings and even .more difficult to many,note said that Britains creditor begive any coherent statement of the re- four obdurate, Britain's debtors and not ing sults of these councils. the British taxpaer must face the oon-se- q So far we have come since everyone jences. . . looked upon the opening of the Farls conference as the starting point of a America Concerned, Too. new era, that now the mere mention of Finally, there is the American eleca fresh International assembly provokes torate Does anyone suppose that the irony and incites pessimism Ana, looked Republican partr, now on the eve of a at face to face, the fact seems fairly congress election, would enUst popular dear that this derisive feeling la en- support by declaring in favor of canceltirely justified. Would the Demolation of allied debts cratic party venture to contest the elecwith a platform declaring for auch tion Germany Sinking. No, for the American taxWe are more than three sears and a cancellation? half from the opening of the Farls con- payer knows that If his European debtors ference and nearly four from the end do not pay he will have to carry the of hostil ties, yet on the whole, in that load. It is a case of 811,000 000,000 with considerable period, international politi-i- him. Just pn It Is a case of 815.000 86000 000 conditions have not Improved and with the French taxpayer and (the American obligation) with the economic have manifestly worsened Today, after London, the situation Is Britishthe In United States we believe that simple in all Its terrifying probabilities Is German) Is sinking Into collapse This the cause of the European difficulties unrecollapse is not, as a material question, militarism. Imperialism and In an Verthe due to payments which she has already strained appetite expressed made on reparations, for these payments sailles treatv and its companion pieces have been insignificant No, the cause is In Britain they believe it is French imto be found in the deliberate election of perialism and American rapacity, French government and the people of Germany Imperialism expressed In the French atlor bankruptcy rather than payment of titude toward Germany, and American costs assessed against the nation for tha rapacity expressed tn our attitude toward our British debtors In France they bewar It is true that the size of the claims lieve It is fundamental Germnn bad lushed by the allies and established in faith encouraged bv British readiness to the treaty of Versailles may partly ex- sacrifice French necessities to British Industrial and economic Interests y plain the German decision for It is possible, that la the most an one can say, that had the bill been German Takes His View. smaller the Germins might have chosen As for the German, he has convinced to pay However, this is of but little himself that he is under no consequence now for the Germans have to pay at all. He believes thatobligation he was chosen bankruptcy and a crash is cer- attacked, although his assailants, taking tainly at hand. a leaf out of Bismarck s book of 1SJ0, were clever enough, to maneuver hts All Dragged Down. foolish leaders Into making the flrstcdec-laratio- n of war He ia taught in his dally Bur a German crash ineluctably drags down France. Belgium and Italy, which press that reparations represent the Gerto destroy determination to no resource have meet thetr French other foreign obligations or pay for tjie physi- many, and resistance, passive, now, viocal reconstruction of devastated areas, lent in the future. Is his hope and Pursave the German reparations When the pose. mark sweeps down to Infinitesimal valNow, underlying all else Is the simple the unues the franc and the lira also follow, fact that someone must pa The treaty If Germany finally col- liquidated costa of the war if at a distance lapses, then In the general failure which of Versailles fixed the costs upon the results there Is an end of Interallied German, but by deliberate bankruptcy he debts and of reparations Into the bar- has so far escaped Moreover, In escapgain with a single exception. ing, he has closed his own market to This exception lies In the possibility British manufactures and by currency Inthat France, employing her armies, will flation been able to undersell the Briton invade Germany and eelxe such things in many foreign markets, With the result the Ruhr Industrial area, from which that Thera has beep vast unemployment at it may draw cpal and other valuable in Britain. Faced by this unemployment. In a word, when Ger- British statesmanship has sought in the commodities many actually collapses. It may be pos- reduction of German reparations only to sible for France, acting like an ordi- encounter French opposition To dispose- of this- - French opposition nary credUoB, to xwze-suc--- h ,proprtM Belt two things is discoverable are at the Briton has proposed a general canonce to be noted First, the amount of. cellation of allied debts, which would actual money return will be inconsid- wipe out 87,000,000 000 of the French forerable, and second, the general eco- eign debt along with 85,000 000,000 of the nomic situation of the world will be American But at this point the Britstill further disturbed and recovery still on encounters the American, who, no creddebtors and longer postponed many having to in have would a itor. plav Political Leaders Balked. wholly one sided game Falling to the finds America, Englishman persuade But after London one Is bound to ask to face again with the what is the alternative London has himself face who la undisturbed over the demonstrated that political leaders are Frenchman,of German ruin, if his own ruin totally unable to find a way of ac- prospect Is not to be averted in advance of the commodating home and foreign politics German Mr Lloyd George, with a general elecSome one must pay, that Is the fact tion on his hands, did not dare to prothe situation and no nation. German pose that cancellation of debts as be- of or allied, British, French or American, tween European allies which must be was more Inthe first step in the scaling down of is ready ioepay "Nothing than the American reaction to German reparations The Balfour not teresting In recent donote Balfour the nothing closed the possibility of useful British because it should have contribution to the London conference mestic history, to meawith which a yardstick It was as fatal In Its way as was the supplied foreign sentiment The American American refusal to go to the 'Genoa sure was mad, genuinely mad at the sugconference to that earlier assembly that he should be asked to chip Poincare, on his part coming to gestion to permit a simple and liondofl with a plan for the reduction in 811.000 000,000 of the present world crisis of reparations following the reduction of sure solution was that the Briton was fact the it the French foreign debts was compelled But mad at a similar suggestion that po put his plan in his pocket and pro- equally note, while the duce another looking toward the actual explained the Balfour to the same suggestion enteriatf upon German property, which French response United State was no more or less than an answer to emanating from bothis the In tbe same temthe Balfour note And this French pro- and Great Britain, posal was emphasised by the note sent per Every conference so far has faced the fronv Paris to Berlin In advance and state of fact, and failure has threatening all sorts of dire catastrophes Identical The world the Inevitable result. been if Germany continued to refuse to sethas been filled with the rival claims of tle private claims. German with abuse of The simple truth Is, then, that both the contestants, Mr Lloyd Geeorge and M Poincare had her conquerors, with British criticism of of Britain, note and the Berlin France vand French criticism by the palfour now the Balfour note serves to crysmessage made any real settlement at and resentment tallise the European against London impossible. United States But underlying all else fact Is fundamental can there that the FinanciersNeeded. be no solution without substantial sacriA real settlement must begin bv so fice and no responsible minister dares ordering the two problems of reparations to take the responsibility before his and allied debts that tt will be possible home public for such a sacrifice. to turn the whole financial mess over s ,long as It remains French Stand Attacked. to the financiers in political hands it is hopeless, But Mors nations are Interested tn the once this Is dne there will still- - remain of Germany than In the presthe question of how Germany Is to be of France financially; therefore ervation if she still refuses to pay mado to pay, the French attitude Is generally assailed that which everyone will agree lb within all over the World. But since most naher ultimate capacity. If you could arrive at a point where tions ows ofus monev, ws shall, as a conth Balfour note, presently reparations became the question of the sequence our rapacity ranked with French funding by means of international loans see of a German obligation of, say 12,000,- - militarism in the world opinion. Only the 000 oou . If y ou could eliminate the" vast preserve' a friendly suma which France and Italy owe their sequence ean srtll must be affected by thle allies, sums which they must colject from fugling, but Insistence our that upon BritIf you the fact Germany, If they are to pay; the British and ish consequent payment assured of German wllltngness could be continental Insistence upon payment to strive In good faith to meet these leads Insistence to continental upon restricted burdens, then you would arrive somewher- e- Then, ee a flret etep, German payment. Now that hie Insistence upon the payGerman bonds might be sold by bankers and the proceeds divid- ment of a wholly legal obligation has ed between Germany and France to caused the American to be held up to meet the pressing necessities of each 1 the scorn of the world as the offender But a moratorium, whether for months responsible for the present worlda trag little sympathise or for )ears, can have little real value, edv, he can perhaps Frenchmen whose alleged militarIf It Isif merely a postponement of a crisis w'tth to serve been made a ism similar has and everyone perceives that at the purpose for more than three years MoreentV of Thwtlme fixed all the old probthe Ironies of the sitlems will recur. If the reparations mort- over. It It one of as we are inclined to that Just gage hangs over Germany, In Its pres- uation the British characterization of the ent state. If the alllddrialms bang over accept he is Inclined as Frenchman militaristic, France. Belg'um and Italy at their presaccept the British portrait of ourselves ent figure, then one,, piay gain time, but to one cannot estabhen confidence and as grasping. without confidence there Van be no ultiParalysis Apparent mate escape from the crash. But consider the political situation as Detailed analysis of the proposals . It is Any German ministry which made at London is a waste of time beto undertook allied with cause none Of the comply were seactually terms and endeavored to meet present riously made; thkt-Js- . proposals made with fall overnight Idea of acceptance The occasion of any reparations terms would the The German people are resolved not to meeting was the German demand for a pay the present reparations figures, long moratorium. Poincare proposed a 21, ' Another Important Demonstration of while French remain Intact. Franca Is Just about as near to ruptcy as Germany, but the French bank, ruptcy la due primarily to tha costa of tha devastation wrought by Qer. restoring man troops on French soil. This and war pensions have cost France 18,000 000,000 ao far, and this vast sum stands as a charge which must be shouldered either by German or French taxpayers In ad dltion, German attack forced France to borrow 87,000.000,000 from her American and Brltlah partners. Here ta a total of 816,000, 000,000 which muet be paid either by the French or the German people. mistice Fail; People Are Demand Extortionate. Provoked to Pessimiam. JUUKSIM, AUUL'ST -a reduced flTRflPID RATE MUNMJAY c ondfftillthc h($ Where foods must have the daintiest appeal use SEGG MILK. . ) V (O j m m v Naturally, the wise ess lends every effort to make the finest flay or 'and cream only ri-used In cooking brings out an extra hit of quality. 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Between the British and French no was possible because the compromise ends pursued were diametrically opposed France wanted monev, Britain sought trade and the eliminaof disastrous tion on , through j competl( depreciated German currency Therefore 1 a had deadlock foreshadowed as I jou have spld bv the Balfour and Poincare notes Indeed, the deadlock mas so In- evitable that the whole proceed njjs In w London had a perfunctory note Even tei the familiar threats of a dissolution of the entente fell upon deafened ears i Whatever else fnay be raid of the Ion- -' V, don conference at least It is a fact that it placed to the smallest house nee International affairs hae been dramatised by the conference method. poa-tlo- , J i o nwx vi 'Vjrv , w"- - t'av.f Beautiful Living Room Suite Davenport, Arm Rocker and Arm Chair True comfort and wearing quality wire the two things the designers of this Suite had foremost In their minds Sit down In the deep Arm Chair or Hot ker test the invitloose cushions of the uvenport--on- ly ing real quality can give comfort like this In stunning blue or mulberry velour upholstering Special August pries, 10 DOWN EASY PAYMENTS SPECIAL William and Mary Jacobean Finish Dining Room Suite Il!.xbcha,rts Eijjht Pieces Complete If youve any thought of new dining room furniture, see this suite! 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Were thev prepared to Hope ApparenteJy Gone. Tn London and the derisions of temper of his chamber, the rest conthe Even in advance wait In a wav Just ag long as there Is j tell their electorates wait must one until of two things hapAs I see it, the I ondon conference ference aie still withheld Yet the charthe meeting we saw that thev were hope of ultimate solution and not a of pens namely, a German crash or an not After the Balfour note it was clear exhausts the hope that Europe cm bv a acter of such agreement as remains pos- American dav longer. conference. We ere Unless there Ms a sudden crash al- that London would only mean funner compromise ofand division of sacrifice find sible has been fully indicated But ev en an h the German problem But promised one mure comprom se between rupture ways nossible gtyn the German situa- Jockeying, not to obtain results but to afor solution now would a have more apparent than real othrr posstbll ty the crash the Br.tish and the Fremh views end, tion, Europe will now f.nd wavs of post- satisfy the conceptions of the several would s'ngle come now The once entente ns at exists In But there two the are to which whom the Consequences views since, without our publics usual, Attendant prime poning a decision, If onlv wo would diametric ally opposed, remains Amerm the conference name only, the reality is that whenever participation must be painful In the ex- ministers were responsib e Br FYench tons and In Intermeet an a make the In the evil davs of the war we used solution would compromise promises a negation of each single gesture treme, until after, the November ballotUntil hope of amh 'a gesture nation s policy, not a v la le solution The national conference the policies of one Then, with a rush to say that time raa against the ene- appear ing In this country we shall have a campaign fpr a new my Ag it turned out, we were not In- d sappears utterhv, and m thing yet has short reparations, width the Hr tlsh In- neatly paralyse those- of the other. The Goman situation drifts surely toward for American frequently wrong, for time changed des been able to destroy it the international sist Upon, the control of German cusWashington conference. end and the allies adx, leadership In the world, predicated upon on several occasons But now time rune poi tlcal market may be supported, held toms, which the French ask, modified the inevitable Actual y the campaign la against the statesmen. Each conference up by man force. In a word, adjourn- In many respects to suit Brltlah Pleas, Journ to meet again tn new discord and cancellation in see end fresh can was of ment evidences in London vou at taken givalms It Washif settlement at finale mean and these paralysis. Ixmdon, then. In' wth postpones ach.eved, results, begun, e.ther event Is no more than an episode. and every ing the impression of i rogress But of ington in mind. If Washington fails to nothing every British newspaper , e the-London this visited sumactual progress is none Fames open jts hospitable gates, then we shall American who It would seem now that Lcnlon. will h mer can testify to the British sentiment led to Genoa and Genoa to The Hague see the deluge not bring an The (CopvrighL 1922, by the McClure NewsBut before such refusal Is accepted two opponents will adjournrupture to meet favoring such a transfer to the banka but from no one of the three did snv paper Svndicate.) Ivory or Walnut Bedroom Suite -- Walnut or French Gray Bedroom Suite 1 S13ffM.it 11 We:l Broadway West Broadway FURNITURE le Anglo-Frenc- - Anglo-Frenc- GASOLINE- - ALLEY LEAVE IT TO AVERY |