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Show WCE ASSAILED ?r 1- NATION DISPOSED TO TJELIEVE AMERICA IS NOT SINERCE IN PREACHING SACRIFICE Lloyd George, Declared to1 Have Changed PlatforrnjEngllsh ,Vlew Disturbing French. 'Nations Are Watching - Paris France ha been marking time the past weok. , , Hut innimvhllo, frqtn Qcrnipny cOipe provocative- articles. From England coino contradictory speeches. From Amerlcrt como disconcerting, reports. Wlitlo the Gorman press carries on a campaign against French intrjinsig. once, ther president of tho ltelchsnii; ndmllB In n cpcOl-h that Wlrth anq ''mu n r-iv.i.11 itit Tiitbii iiiii ltjithcnau had obhihw.il -10 per cen; reduction In tho reparations obligations. obliga-tions. Jmpnsod tit Versailles. .. 4 'For, a long tlnic't have been myjng that th'cj.reddctldn fliiiountod' tp ntibut 60 per cent, This timp, hWevor, rt Is not Frenchman taking but Oct, man ri high nutliofitK .This reduction5 simply means that .tliCvFrtihcIt Uixpaydr must pay Ubat tho , G'eVmaiis' avoid. Tho German press chooses this moment to accuse France of. crucIO lug Gernulny, ti re. 'mark heh-does' not need comment. ' "rho-npproavJilng, olectlons In England Eng-land bring Internal poljA'qs tq tlio foru In that, country, wltli "ijnfjortitimto er. .foqts upouUie jQrpIgi policy David JJoyd Gtiirg'e eeks a.plntf'onn wiiich will .cyinble him to get" il majority "slmjlnr to 'ttfo ouo - hi' I0i8; ' His fin;, form then was "hang the kaiser" ituS "lu'iiko" Germany pay to -tlio uttormost farthing." ' ... t Tttit this Umo tlio' scene has chnngdd Tho fiCw" pliltfonn Is '.'reconstruct .Eurupo.- " . ,, . xJiOl nleiHercty nbsen-e that If Lloya .Gpprge,''is''s fnlf hles-s-' to . thet tre.W! Europe as he was to tlio old, it may bu a long time before the rceotitructlon Is 'accomplished. . , "Moreover without '..nnmlng, him,. LlUyd'.Gcorgo pas tnnda u shnrp speech hgalnst Premier. Polncalro. There Is 'lvodojibt that M. Polncalre'B personality person-ality arouses lu England,wespeelally In ilovnhig street, nilxelifiptlmonts.j In' lO Lpyd Clvorljo' complftlned ngnftist Polncalre,, then Uichead of the repiu. ntibns commission, conducting an nn-tlolllctl nn-tlolllctl campaign ' In vcviows uuo nowsphpers. Again lie officially protested', pro-tested', In Octobor, 1021, against Pom-' calre's publishing of secret peace Io ument.s. There Is iw confidence or sympiuny neiwocn roincuire nna Llojd Georgo. Tliolr controversy aa to tho relative merits of the modern conference as against 1lio old diplomacy diplo-macy Is not paitlcularly Interes-t'ng. since It concerns omly 'tho former. But tlio controversy foreshadows His-quieting His-quieting disagreement about essen-tlals. essen-tlals. When Premier Polncnlro asked me to take a portfolio in Ids cabinet, 1 told him that, while I approved his purposes, I did not think ho could achlovo them, because of his controversial contro-versial activities for the last two ami a half years. This alluded not only to tho fact that he constantly approved approv-ed the acts of Premiers Mlllcrnnd and Brland, whom ho now combats, but also to his personal situation relative to British circles. WJiat Is happening now confirms toy fears. As to American opinion, It seems hard to follow. The American pi ess urges Franco not to abstain from thu effort for world solidarity represented by the Genoa conference, but uppur. ontly the American government wilt refuse to participate in tho same ot-fort. ot-fort. In ouo word America preaches sail, ihirlty and nacrlflce for us, while practicing abstinence herself. Lot me say that Franca has never asked fur remission of her debts. She usks only not tiy bo prevented from collecting her credits. That Is the sum total ol Franco's "Imperialism." |