Show GRASPS BIG AND GOES WW IT II ALONE nL M Watch Us Uz and Await Developments De Developments Tardieu Says In Frank Prank Article By vs ORr T U Former French High Commissioner to 0 t the Special Cable Dispatch to The Stand Stand- ard Examiner Copyright 1923 by The Standard Standard- E PARIS Jan 13 At At the very vory mo- mo moment moment ment the French government Io a was pro pro- proceeding pro with the of ot the region America let It bo bo knon kno known n 0 thit she was as withdraw Ing h her r remaining troops from the Rhineland The coin coin- coincidence emphasized the divergence or of o i les leas le s which nobody longer can con doubt The course after atter the refusal to ratify the II eaty of ot s was nas as perfectly logical but the time lime chosen gh gives gies es n a meaning which telegraphed comments or of the American picas pi lI ess further accent accentuate t Friends s but not In agree n agree agree- rr went ent Such Is our situation You Yol have too much respect tor for honest opinion to be surprised It If I speak frankly n FAILURE OBVIOUS IOUS For four tour years an effort has been boen made to keep together a combination combination'S S 'S began disintegrating homed homed- ImmedI I tely after the armistice Its today Is obvious This doe doel not mean that our good feelings and good rela rela- relations rela- rela relations relations are aro not to bo be presen preserved ed but It 11 means insane a 0 waste aste of ot time to pretend to agree where no w e do not The Americans and the English crIticize us for considering only poli poll politics politics tics and neglected economics they preach solidarity But when ou out t tao 0 great countries Immediately at- at atter atter af after ter the armistice brusquely discussed the war organizations which con con- controlled controlled con controlled trolled coal exchange and transportation transportation transportation tation were they thinking of economic sOlidarIty 7 No They were thinking perhaps rather narrowly In their own Interests Wo We e with even more reason reon now are doing the same thing in de- de deciding deciding de deciding that after three years sears cars of con con- continual continual con continual concession weon we on wont on t co do o bank bank- bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt rupt and are tired of or pa paling billions every year for Germany for tor the ruin she caused used POLICY ENDORSED You yourself have often orten said sald you'd do the same samo thing It Ir you were In our place But ou are not in our place You are not us It seems all the effort we ha hae have e expended to convince the English lish and yourselves has been com corn combated combated bated It seems also that with nith Ith Ger Ger- Germany Ger- Ger Germany Germany many and the Soviets lets e exempted emoted all Europe agrees It us which abich fact seems orth of o a arresting your attention attention atten- atten tion Youma e Iy Iye e ae itis- itis taken but we wet say the i same samo of You you and the English and we wo think our concerning the treaties n a formidable causo cause of or anarchy not alone political but economic For or notI I myself I have tried 1 every eory ery way by voIce and pen tor for three years to reconcile our viewpoints I have not succeeded Nobody has succeeded you exploit a mine and find no mo e coal there iou ou dont don't keep dig dig- digging dig digging ging At the present moment It l would be bo vain aIn aln to hope to get anything out of that allied and associated mine hichi ne neer never er the less was as so BO rich richI I during the war FRANCE GOES ALONE I ISo So we e are going to try tr alone to put order somo order Into the old continent We will cease annoying vou OU bv by askIng your opinion on questions which doll do donot donot not Interest you as your our domestic questions do not Interest us We Ve willi will try to apply those International con con- contracts con contracts tracts acts which you refuse to ratify after signing and the tho English refused to I after arter ratifying International contracts which cannot connot be abandoned condemning to death all of those contral central European states which I myself heard you acclaim so often otten when It was a question of liberating from the German Austro German Austro i and ond Russian oke We Wo will try to do our dOlour own busIness ourselves gently dOl it possible otherwise It If compelled It wasn't we who Invented the I phrase to speak softly but carry corry a big I stick Our words have hao been mIsunderstood Therefore we turn to the stick The future will show which Is best AND SEE SIm We are aro doing what the English and AmerIcans have done dono In other times Umes It If It was right for tor lou ou then why Is It wrong and unjust when coming from ui You will w watch us as we watched yOU at the time of Cuba and the Philippines and as you watched Eng EnC Bugland England land at other times You will bo be witnesses of results and dell eU cease cense vain ain aln Irritating disputes Whether we or you llo It or not a anew anew anew new epoch Is beginning which will last many years It If we wo succeed you'll see we will be good pavers and remain good friends It Is the tho way of via wIs- wIsdom wis wisdom dom and the tho only way to guarantee the future The other method which In 1918 saved the tho right and liberty had my preference It Is not Franco fault tault It if It became Impracticable |