Show I England No Longer European Power Harden Says and France Can Threaten British Life Lif BY UA N lU X N enn Foremost Publicist Special Dispatch to Tho Standard Standard- l COP right 1923 l BERLIN BEHLIN Jan 1 Dark 13 13 D Dark rk das dabs hao ha come to Germany G Buto But ranee's rances o march Into tto the tho Ruhr fluhr should not surprise the world orld She haq bai had her eyes eves on that thit productive the tive valley ever er si slice ice the armis armis- armistice armistice armistice tice was ti as signed an ani I the ridiculous treaty trealy of ot V r s was waa negotiated negotiated Germ Germiny signed the treaty un- un under Under un under der protest Now Non she protests against the of ot that by the latest French ng- ng aggression ag aggression lOut But who ho I In is to heed the protest 7 Germany Impotent has been waiting tor for someone to come coma to her rescue roscue but no one comes The government has hRS thought the United States would act has frankly said sold that It expected eco eco- economic eco economic aid from roni the United States State A few tew weeks ago ogo this expectation sent the tho mark sailing upward But now in the tho darkness the mark has gone deeper Into luto the tha cellar collar Germany like a toothless old dog Is driven Into Inlo her kennel at the point ot of the tho bayonet No Xo one can say as yet just what hat will III come of ot the occupation ot of the Ruhr Germany has been for months racing toward the ss But to the world orld at ot large there Is perhaps a more Important ansi and certainly a more definite develop develop- development development development ment England no longer Is la a n Euro Euro- European European European power poder 10 er She stands stands-In stands stands- In isola Isola- isolation isola- isola isolation tion It Is now the continent nt for tor Itself England Ingland looks for tor or friend friend- friendship friendship ship at possible future alliances ac acio's o s the thet broad waters of or the Atlantic Her I Influence no longer longor pre prevails ails across too narrows or of the channel France has broken away front British control France with aith Ith her 10 powerful army and submarine submarIno fleet leet her and bombs and torpedoes or of o a 3 destructive power undreamed seems Deems to all opponents of ot a brutal military spirit a 0 today to peace progress cJ and ond democracy democracy democracy racy Tomorrow Franco France can threaten England's life lite as Ila well as Ocr Ocr- Germanys many Gar many s England Ingland told her er she sho ought t te disarm especially It if reparations In kind were approved by all tue tho tho signatories and a 00 tour four power pact arranged whereby England France Germany and Italy would agree not to make war nar plebiscite on each other without a Such was the thought or of orthe the commercial mind But France rejected the Brit Brit- British Brit British ish plan which would give her I a maximum of thirty billion gold mars marks and would remove the pro pro- pro protecting fence of or She mocks at a a pact which could not pre present ent a war pre plebiscite In Germany nor pre prevent present ent Germany Invading In Poland toe Belgium or of Czecho lid and wont won't ont saC saC- sacrifice sac sacrifice a 0 single bayonet to such a phantom for tor her army seems In- In in on tho the Rhine and at Pas Faa Do De Calais without which she be ho helpless against British despotism and caprice The engagement rings each changed under the mistletoe are broken brohen and ond England Ingland which want want- wanted wanted ed to gh give gho 0 1 I ranco a chance be- be between tween be-tween V t tween en a free tree hand on the Rhine with Oriental concessions to be and pilloried as disturber or of the peace now sees flees Isolated Belgium Bel lum Italy the Lit Little Lit Lit- Litlie Littie tie lie Entente Poland all are aro on the sIde of I ranco England s Isolation the first since Salisbury's time Is truly splendid She has the dominions and America on her ler side Bide She can lure Russia to her net by gee rec- rec ing the Soviets She can cOon try to split b by reestablishing the lormor sultan In Mecca but the tho wise lse ones In the foreign ot- ot of offices flees doubtless that all these trumps cannot win domi domi- dominant dominant dominant nant power on the continent o So out goes England How will France use her new now power Will she be bo too greedy or will her people at last see that Europe I must create a new order from her own st strength according to her 0 own n needs and no longer the guardianship of ot a great power which really has been more strongly Interested In and lor other continents than tor for Europe God moves In mysterious ways His miracles to perform What It If there sho should ld costs from froni the lat lat- latest lat latest est eat seemingly untoward unto happen happen- happenings happenIngs ings logs In Europe that dream or of o all seeing seeing tar people a United States Of Europe Europa 1 The first ln da dawning recognition that England no longer Is a Eu- Eu European Eu European power Is m re Import Important nt than thau any of the tho latest phases of the tho I el and a race now Is beginning In iii Paris for tor an agreement with Ith the tho Russia Russin of or to- to tomorrow tomorrow to tomorrow morrow England Ingland worthy or of o the greatest admiration as an un- un unsurpassed unsurpassed surpassed surpassed model state and the center of history as the most powerful empire should 1 realize th that t a United Europe could guar guar- guarantee guarantee antee her an open door for tor her exports and free access to her territorial possessions In Asia and ond the North sea and would do so If she would promise to abandon nil all Interest in Europe's Internal affairs For the time lime being It Is only the Instinct of ot the people which Is stirring but soon reason will willbe wIllbe willbe be awakened a and will show both Ir nce and Germany the tho way of collaboration Tho exchange of rings then th-n will be unnecessary but the third part party who publicly union while secretly do- do desiring Eiring de-Eiring siring dissension and resignation when his own pock pockets ts are full must finally abandon the authority of oC guardian and the pleasures of or tho gallant friend of tho house |