| Show TARDIEU SEES liTTLE mi HOPE FOR COUNTRY N New e w G- G German Cabinet II Unlikely Compromising ely To Be BY KY ANDRE AN ORE To I Former French 11 Commissioner to the tl United tOO States otates Radio to The Tile Standard I Examiner stAndard stAndard-II CopyrIght 1923 France Is in the glo glooms ms She SheI I sees no hope In any direction The Tho Car Marc cabinet In Germany offers none the result of the British elec elec- election tion otters offers none the Coolidge mes mes- sige mes-sige sige offers otters none and France lice her l hEl herself self Is h facing an election In his despatch today paints the picture In dark darl colors colon PARIS Dec 8 It It is a common common- commonplace commonplace commonplace place to say that no no clear line ot of policy can be deduced front from Europe's confusion yet what hat else can be said after a week which has been the tIme Marx cabinets cabinet's painful be- be beginning be beginning ginning th-e th tho British general elec elec- elections dee dee- deetion elections tion and PI Coolidge's cau- cau tous cau-tous tous message When Dr Gustav be- be became be became came caine chancellor of Germany say sev- sev elal months ago the view was tins eC e ex expressed pressed that no German statesman eser er had a more difficult task But Buthis Buthis Buthis his successor from the time very sery fact that he cornea comes later faces a 0 tar far worse situation Germany after ier defeat adopted a parliamentary constitution constitution tion but she sho had no spIrit and no radl- radl lions Followed of ot va- va various Various va various rious groups and und constant between nationalists con socialists and bourge bourge- bourgeoise olse oise Not a single clear Idea Ida has I appeared GERMANS UNCO VINCED The writer would hate to be obliged to express press an opinion today as to whether there I la Is In Germany a majority which has learned from experience that resistance to the treaties in various wa ways wass q ii lit the last four foug icara ears has haa cost the country more than their execution have cost So long as the German people are lire unconvinced of that their troubles trouble 1 nih will 11 only increase When cornered they yield ns lIS they did In September when they bud sud- suddenly sud suddenly denly deny ceased financing the Ruhr resistance But they at one point only to resume at another as lIS has been the case cue with armaments the Increasing Import Import- Importance importance Importance ance of ot which has haa been sho shown n In Inthe inthe Inthe the writers writer's recent dispatches All this goes on amid a financial and monetary situation without precedent and surpassing Imagination tion Words cannot express it Is Germany bankrupt Yes and no For loor her tier disorder Is v worse orse than or- or or ordinary dmary bankruptcy 1 Ii The Tho carte blanche demanded by Chancellor Mart Marc Is la relied upon to restore financial order But It if these unlimited l powers are exercised b by heads like iho ho Is mainly responsible for tor the crisis the result is certainly cert doubt doubt- doubtful doubtful ful The easing of the Ruhr situation favorable as it may b bo be to reparations reparations reparations provided the Ruhr Industrial Industrial- industrialIsts Industrialists keep their promises can only I have local significance politically Berlin is wrapped in total darkness Meanwhile the British elections result in a 11 setback But the Is Issues ues are arc so confused that It will be difficult to draw any con con- conclusions conclusions con conclusions whatever from front the Foreign affairs were nero not the main mainIs Is isue ue Indeed all parties endeavored endeavored ored to keep this issue In the tho hack back background ground Nothing was tins said about the gra grave graie e discords during the tho last ala sl months bet between cen London and Paris nothing nothing but fh flowery cry nords about need for tor an entente without saYIng on what basis an entente could be realised They were the same bame old pam pal ties lies with the same old programs program ox- ox ex except that Premier Baldwin Played the risky card of or and lI former Premier Lloyd George took ad of the tIme occasion to re lv the old free tree trade issue primarilY as an instrument of ot political and personal rev revenge Theer seems no basis for tor a stable government in th result appears doom doomed d again to 10 coalitions COOLIDGE GU President Coolidge's caution mes- mes sag to congress adds nothing to his declarations lie ad- ad advances advances ad advances vances the same Ideas and the same bame proposals regarding foreign policy and the allied debts It was ma as e ex expected I that e everybody would stand pat on the e evo ee e of the coming elec elec- elections elec- elec elections elections Trio The opinion prevails here that the determining Issue In the situation will be tire the ono one least mentioned namely the lie farm problem The Tue recent trip of the farmers delegation to Franco France and Gel m iny attracted European at- at attention at attention to this group Who will find means to aliI attract act the armel armei vote Republicans Democrats or a third party under the leadership of Hiram Johnson Johnson- That I Is the ques Ques- ques- ques question Lion tion that ver everybody bod Seer lifer I is lion nobody is ans answering 1 I ranee does docs not want ant America to tore re-entel re the tho European councils II 1 0 One has hal the Impression that the tho Amell an go government Is In no hUrt Y even cven to go so far tar as u to join jom I in the pel c t investigations Under the reparations commission and itI n this po po s a suggested It ItIs Itis I Is without much c- c expectation of realization It is merely an e expression expression I sion Ion of friendship more platonic than acU active e I France also h his her parliamentary parliamentary tary elections within five Uve months land approaches them In utter dark dark- durk fluss C Pr Premier Poincare de- de m de-m for himself lf unanimous sup sup- support support sup support port which can an only be found on Indeed Europe Is not yet turnIng the light |
