Show RUH STATUS V GROWS MORE OMINOUS Gardiner Asks Shall His His- History History His History tory Call England and andU andU U S ItY nY A G G 0 Elt Greatest Liberal EdItor Co right 1923 1923 LONDON reb British 3 British public opinion compelled absolute al ai of the American debt funding plan e was a I grest sigh tigh of relief everywhere where here when hen It was learned that tile tho cabinet had 1111 accepted It had been rumored that there therea a i t strong division of tile the cabinet In opposition This wan vat raid to ha base Included tho the premier r It IC so lIO the op position po opposition frIght fricht sery ry thoroughly the o Ia of public opinion popular Whatever hate er ma may hn have base e been tho the poP poP- pop I ular thur difference of opinion the Iho terms thero there waa nas as only one belief bellet belletI concerning the course ourse of With I going to pieces before yes eyes th the tine stab English feeling nas as that nothing must mut be he ed to In- In Inte in te with nith Ith Anglo American relations lons If Europe Is ever eser to 10 bo ho patched Up II agaIn ain America and England are the only powers equal to the job The thelast good feeling beh between en the th two Is the last asset left In the mad world B D How Tow mat mad It Is description I do not recall a a more staggering blow than ban that delivered by the tho report that Poincare I had been engaged In prIvate negotiations with the th Turk behind the back of the Lausanne Lousanne conference It as felt Celt that If true truo the last ray of pretense o honor In public affairs gone cone and relations with Ith France must end ond The lr aCl has lIas been promptly ex- ex explained ex explained expression 11 away assay a but a profound expression sion slon publication of disquietude prevails pre an and pub pub- pub of all documents will be b necessary necessary sary before confidence can be bo re re-I restored re restored stored Undoubtedly the obstinacy of tho Turks Turk of ot Lausanne was due to tile the con that the Franco Franco bl bleach each over the Ruhr would be 1 leaving Franco openly sup sup- supporting supporting sup porting the Turks and anti the British op- op op position opposition MORE OMINOUS The Tir Chanak episode has not been forgotten and anti It Is Impossible to ex- ex exclude ex exclude clude dude development the fear tear that a similar develop elop ment may come corn from th s Ruhr The Ruhr enterprise hourly s grosss trow more toward ominous It is rushing Germany to- to toward to ward unthinkable anarchy but Is pro pro- pro producing no material result results for tor France The Lorraine Iron foundries all are art stopping through lack of o Ruhr coke France ranco Is discovering that the bayonet cannot I I be substituted UL for tor the pick In oth c oal the collapse of the mark Is 18 followed by an ominous fall fallIn In the franc It Is I that the value alue of ot the franc frane has been kept ept at nn an artificial level evel by every Cry possible ties de ice Ico The slump Is beginnIng bei to alarm the lien ous Investor an and with every new of tho the failure of tho In- In In Invasion the French go turns the screw afresh CONCLUSION CONCLUSION- The Immediate cause of the failure Is the tho fact tact that France has hns not cue cue- uc in capturing the Ruhr Rube worker It was Vas calculated his hostility to ard the Ruhr coal owners oss 0 ners Ders and their profit profit- Gering earing tactics would make mako him accept French masters matters This Tills conclusion has hos been entirely baseless Loyally to Ocr Ocr- Germany Ger Germany many was more mor PO powerful erful than hatred of employers even among the tho Ruhr Socialists But the lesson emerging Is the th Im- Im ImpossIbility Impossibility Im possibility Impossibility of extracting money out of ofa ofa ofa a debtor b- b by beating him to death It If yOU want a bankrupt to pay you must let ilet him us 1 live e How flow long France Franc will be bo deluded Ith this policy of ot mingled frenzy and folly tolly who can say My ay But the sIgns are not wanting that has begun A significant mo ement Is I that French financiers are aro con their wealth Into other currencies ONLOOKERS HELPLESS When France has sufficiently scorched herself In her on 0 own n it flame perhaps something will bo be done Mean all on lookers-on are aro at the th conflagration The Tho league of helpless nations Is I helpless England Is I help holp- help less Lausanne and the tho Turk tie our hands bands If It we wo do anything about tile the Ruhr wo we shall hear from Angora Ancora So Sowe Sowe Sowo we continue benevolently neutral which means wo we sit placidly watching the greatest public crime perpetrated In the th history of Europe a crime which It if not stopped topped will soak Europe In blood for tor generations This Infamous paralysis of the tho moral sense of the world must mut stop England Ingland and America must act to s save something of European civilization If only for tor our own selfish Interests Is history to say ay the nations nation of ot Gladstone and nd Lincoln set lit like dumb dogs dofa for tor- tore for forever e ever eser er while Europa was con Into a 0 howling bowling wilderness |