| Show BERLIN PAPERS ns nsE I DISliKE DECISION E FRENCH PREMIER GIVEN MOST SEVERE CRITICISM FOR ALLEGED INFLUENCE Stable tabi Condition Conditions In Germany Held to B Be Out of The Question If Frontiers Frontier Ar Are Invaded Berlin The The decision of the coun coun- council council cil of ambassadors to postpone Indefinitely Indefinitely In In- definitely the evacuation of the Cologne Cologne Co Co- Co- Co logne bridgehead unloosed a storm of bitter editorial comment in the Ber Der din Hn newspapers The most severe criticism of the alleged leg surrender of M M. Herriot the French premier to to external influences ces oddly enough appears in the German German Ger Ger- man liberal organs which since the London conference had been inclined to view the French prime minister as ab as the harbinger of a new era in Franco German German Franco relations M 1 Herriot using Marshal Fochs Foch's sabre is not a very inspiring sight remarks Theodore Wolff in a caustic caustic caus caus- tic editorial in the in which he refers to lame Herriot in connection with the premiers premier's re recent ent i indisposition Wolff charges M. M Her lIer riot with having handed the German tonic nationalists a bracing The French premier failed to re main true to himself and arid permitted the moral ground on which he was standing to slip away the democratic democrat democrat- ic Boersen B ersen Courier says the radi radical al organ asks whether it will 1 be a historic function function tion of the year 1925 to undo all that has been accomplished in the nature of pacific reconstruction during 1924 1024 It asserts that stable conditions in Germany are out of the question while her Rhineland frontiers are invaded invaded in in- or armed forces remain on on German soil The problem in the opinion of George Bernhard of the has an immediate bearing on the unhampered functioning of the Dawes plan which he says Kays presupposes presupposes poses complete economic independence ence for Germany The belief that Germanys Germany's foreign relations have grown worse sine sinh the return of the conser element in England is freely expressed in that section of the press which assumes that the present official official of- of orientation in England is distinctly distinctly dis hostile to Germanys Germany's economic progress and therefore would not disdain dis dis- disdain dain to ally itself with French im imm imperialistic currents with the purpose of retarding such progress even at atthe atthe atthe the risk of the Dawe DaweS plan plan Neither Germania the Clerical party's organ which is is close to Chancellor Chancellor Chan Chan- Marx nor Die which reflects ts Foreign Minister mans man's views commented on the action of the council of ambassadors This is taken as ris an indication that the government will await formal notification notification noti noti- of the decision from Paris before undertaking a formal expression sion Chancellor Marx will return return from his vac vacation in the the week and immediately will confer with I President Ebert on the question of constructing a new government The present foreign crisis finds the German Ger- Ger G Ger German r- r man man internal political al situation In a state of complete chaos Foreign Minister is unyielding in his demand that the the- nationalists should be formally invited to accept representation in the in order t to remove them from the opposition opposition op op- position on the floor of the reichstag The socialists on the other hand declared declared de de- that a government in which the party plays a dominant role would be wholly unsuited unsuited unsuited un- un suited to deal with a situation growing growing grow grow- ing out of continued occupation in violation of Germanys Germany's treaty rights Dr is liberally blamed by a section of the press for having precipitated a crisis which le leaves ves Germany with a roughly transitional government to deal with a critical foreign situa situa- tion Surprise also is expressed that neither Marx nor discuss ed the evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead at the London ces |
