Show United States Stages Given Credit 1 For New Reparations Outlook MORAL EFFECT OF CONFAB TO BE GREAT LIdeal Ideal Forces Declared at a Grip With Material Factors By A G GARDINER Britain Britain's Greatest Liberal Editor I Cable Cabit to The St Standard Standard- Standard Examiner Copyright 1923 LONDON Oct Ott 27 l Joral Moral forces lat hat Jast last hav ha tease e tomo come to grip with the tho material and the tho result Is awaited with confidence It If Prance Franca had rejected the appeal for a confer confer- conference conference conference ence on reparations she sho would ha base hav e become morally Isolated Publication of at the correspond correspond- nc between bet een London and Washington Wash Wash- ington created profound satisfaction tion In London Secretary Hughes was sins as regarded as ns wIse just t and enormously helpful and It was anticipated that Its effect on Prance would bo be most moat Important The conference Is the la last luot t chance Ito ko save have aVe l Europe from front wreck It commits no power po but It will I I give light where here darkness now reigns and Its moral effect will be beI bi decisive e It will set sot oat to ascer- ascer I first facts first what wh Germany has paid second how much sh she can clin pay and third hosho how ho sho must L y ply ploy The I he appeal to M IT care Poincare to come Into conference and save ease Eu- Eu Europe Eu Europe rope rOIo was as most Impressive 1 cordial land lae-d But the intimation 1 that tuut In any an case Great Britain ln could not stand by and consent to the of Germany was as firm and emphatic URE INTENSIFIED SUIED Pren ler ter Bald Baldwin In had bad the tho In as a n result of his with M lit Poincare In Paris that chat 1 If passive resistance ere v ere with with- withdrawn withdrawn ith- ith drawn the rigor of ot the Ruhr occupation occupation pation would be relieved ed Instead the pressure has been Intensified The view stew lew gains ground that the theP rench French realize now that the Ruhr has hila killed tho the reparations LIons goose and that all that re remains re- re remains mains Is to make mae sure that Ger- Ger Germany Ger Germany many is destroyed past th the possibility possibility possibility o recover That apparent apparent- apparently ly Iy Is the tho line lino on which the coming electIons which govern gOern gO ern o e to bo be fought Can tho the civilised world consent n look lock on whilo this tremendous crime which condemns Europe to eternal hatred and war is consummated mated mated d Is 1 M lit Poincare In fn order Ito to win an election to DO De tid to make millions of ot starring tor for England and AmerIca Its It I to feed teed and keep alive or leave lease to tol toI I l pet Isis Thit Iut Is the question unsolved Involved in problem of ot tho the proposed con con- conference con conference ference It Is the only expedient t by which Europe can hope to es- es es escape cape ape a tragedy without parallel Inhuman III human annals It Is the only ex- ex expedient ex expedient also by which an any hope ot of securing reparations remains Sir 1 Baldwins Baldwin's speech Thursday confirmed the Impression that General Smuts spoke with Ith the of or the eov o eminent nt when ben ha attacked the and a probable conference Then came come publication of the cor- cor cor correspondence rt disclosing Lord Cur Cur- Cur Izon Izen's Invitation to Secretary MUST 51 RELEASE GRIP Apparently the publication has haa forced the hand of the British SO gos- gov government and has helped the pre pre- pre awe over his hard die-hard tac- tac tac Imler ton uon General Smuts has made a impression on his ov 0 colleagues and undoubtedly the tho special conference favored fa or d a strong stand the French policy Australia A South Africa and Canada are all suffering Buttering from destruction of at then theli European trade and they realise e that there Is no hope of ot re- re recovery I covery er co while keeps a strangle lo hold upon the tha German jugular I Mean Meanwhile tho the condition ot of Germany Gormany creates profound alarm I 1 The hot writer w liter Iter has hal just seen soen several and English visitors re- re returned turned ro IAm turned from the Ruhr They She re-I re appalling forecasts for tor tha coming winter rive Five million people are aro dOOmed to famine conditions unless relief Is 1 forthcoming I ho is Iq hardly better eUer in The morale of the people Its breaking under the strain of at hun hun hun- hun I gor gor panic and fear The Tho separatist attack upon the tho appears to have failed temporarily and France Franco has heel hesi hesitated to give giro e the tho movement official sup support ort though the evidence Is 0 that French rench n ances are iro behind it on |