| Show Were We're Doing No More Than U Us So S Did In T Tardieu Declares I TRANCE FRANCE MUST BURN HAND IN N FIRE Of RUHR Powerful Military Machine Gives French Crushing Power In Europe i II i C G G Special Dispatch to 10 The Standard Standard- Examiner 1923 1923 LONDON Jan Fiance Ut Fiance I Is Iq In Inthe inthe the Ruhr and England Ingland wal waits walta the do- do In the drama anxiously but calmi The effect of the breach l France Is beginning to operate powerfully In the public lublic mind Hith Hitherto erto tho the hypnotism of the viar nar ar has ob- ob obscured ob obScured ob the realities of French poliO Criticism of or Franco France has hRS been boen regard regard- regarded regarded I ed as a bort Lort of ot blasphemy Tho The tide or of o this feeling has turned solidly but without anger and with with- without without without out hesitation 1 hot I ot since the dOs davs do s of oC the war lar ar hm has the voice of tho the press been so unanimous In support of or the Today all events eHnts since the are being reviewed In Inthe inthe inthe the light of this crowning cro act of spoliation spoliation tion What course should England pursue In the tho light of this eh That question Is occupying Ing all minds In some orne quarters It Is urged that our In the occupied territory Is Impossible In view of or the action ot of France which Is h not endorsed by us usAnd nd I Is ii declared to be contrary to the pro blons of or the peace penco treaty treat It Is maintained that the presence ot or Brit Brit- BritIsh Brit Isit Ish troops on the Is Inconsistent Cot ent with Ith the attitude of ot the tho gOern govern gO government ern- ern ernID mont ment ID nt and renders us liable to gra grase grae e complications On tho the other han hand bans It itIs ItIs Is 18 argued that withdrawal ol of the troops at thi this stage would be prema prema- premature premature ture It would accentuate the all hope of or accommodation And deprive England of or th the pow PO power er to a fc restraining Influence on the course of ot events event MUST fUST BURN HURN CURS CURSI I think the latter Mew icy lew Is the wIs- wIs wIsest wis wisest est eat Nothing can row LOW check the tho ad- ad ad adventure venture and withdrawal would In- In Inflame In Inflame flame Iame France to wilder courses The Tho prevailing opinion I is that lint Franco must b all allowed 0 ed to burn her fingers in the R Buhr furnace until she recovers her sanity True this may mean the final ruin of Germany already alread on the brink ot the ab 98 But Fiance will III only je e cured by the discovery that her policy doesn t pay and that Germany Is empty 0 Over Oter er the plain tact fact Is now beIng that France Is the military dictator of or Europe and that no power exists to resist her adventures She and ond her allies have disarmed Germany to her last man and her last gun France has a larger army than at tho the beginning of or the war and Is ismore ismore more powerful than all of the other nations west of the latula She COOl com commands con con- lands mands a 0 practical monopoly of the manufacture of ot armaments In Europe Half a million black troops are In reserve with Ith which to hold Europe by the tho throat All this Is duo due to Lo the policies of ot the last lost rOUt years but England refused to recognize this sig- sig significant Big fact Now the significance Is to all It is the gO governing factor Pt 4 r the situation She Sho Is conscious that her her unchallenged power can turn the screw without tear fear ot or effective Inter Inter- Interference interference Interference ference A confident feeling pre prevails ails that France will III experience a 0 speedy dis disillusionment dis- dis disillusionment In the fact of oX the paa- paa pas pa he ivo ie resistance ot or the German Indus Indus- Industrials trials and that when she finds the Is bare baro and Franco ranco begins to jo tumble she hc will sill bo be more disposed to listen to reason Perhaps the tish tishI Ish h I father to the thought No o action is possible We Ve can cnn only alt and see Meanwhile l h s new Joo on 00 the tho decadence of Europe Is creating a n tremendous Impression His sombre attitude Is the terrific Indict Indict- ment of or French policy and his PO l pow po- powerful erful analysis of or the catastrophe or of French revenge Is the time that the British public has ha been presented with the Ule full case against France and corn com comIng com Ine lag Ing at this critical moment the effect is terrific fooling feeling has been b by this disclosure of or the in- in associated with aith the use uso or of black troops troop In the tho heart of or w white hue European ch civilization APPEAL 10 TO ul RIC This iniquity now is arousing deep Indignation It Is felt to be an outrage out out- outrage out outrage rage not only to Germany alone but Ule whole of oC o European society out s a to America Is generally echoed here England has done her best beet to s 5 plunge to barbarism l hit t now Is reduced to the toi lolo 1016 of ot an lale lob spectator of ot the catastrophe The hoial al and material power poser ot or America How OW is tho the only Influence left lert to sae Bae tl tle te e wreck of ot the continent S i English opinion agrees with that America Is In refusing help only would be bo employed In preparing armaments for a k new ar ar England now nowr tree free from aha shares baie es view vions s that American Anglo American operation co In a pol- pol polIcy policy pol policy icy of ot peace with a re Ision ot or the solution of or the tha reparations and o ot of sane economic condi condi- conditions conditions conditions In la Europe is the only hope of salvaging anything ani thing front from hO th wreck bI the old world orld |
