Show BERLIN BERUN PLAYS OLD GAME IS TARDIEU VIEW Money Spent In Ruhr Shows Germany Can Pay PayI I nr DY T Former French lUgh CommIssioner to the United State Special Cable to Tho The Standard Standard Examiner Copyright 1923 PARI Oct K 16 It It I Is difficult at thIs to foresee the cour e will nill take In Germany Chan Chan- Chancellor Chancellor A now mandate Is conferred upon the tho same by PresIdent Ebert These are mere mero surface phenomena There Is a a reality be- be beneath beneath be beneath neath themI them I The reality Is an Increasing an nn- nn m between bet the right and the tho left parties Herr leader of ot tho the peoples people's party tried a cabinet of ot concentration In the great creat Industries and the social Itts were equally represented This i cabInet agreed In declaring that thai the situation of Germany would not permit the Reich Belch to con con- continue con continue to pay tor for passive resistance But Dut Duthen when hen It came to measures which resulted from this declara declare declaration declaration tion disagreement bEgan beian The right opposed the projects of the th socialist financial minister ding The left protested Chancellor economic projects project It seems that the final rupture was produced tr o 0 o er the question ot of the hour eight day And In Ier- Ier Ber Berlin tin lin as In Munich the right ale ele- elements ele element ments ment predominate There Is only one point on the adversaries are united That la Is laIn In attacks attack up upon n France The game gamo Is not new but it Is la being accentuated accentuated e every cry da day It Is being said ald aldand and repeatedly l printed that It Is Frances France's fault that Germany I Is In Inan Inan Inan an apparently Inextricable position Frances France's Fr fault Because e Fr to grant Chancellor mann mann satisfaction In exchange for tor of ot the pa e resist resist- resistance resIstance resistance ance decrees What hilt Reinstatement from expelled of persons expelled from the area arla of occupation and those con condemned tor for sabotage This Is pUt pur pule e sophIsm m In tho the first place paco Franco France and BelgIum have been stupid at the tho time when ork was about to be resumed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Ruhr to re-open re that territory to those who had disorganized It And In the second place these con con- concessions con concessions cessions would not have changed the tho Reich's financial position which was the tho th stumbling block on which the precarious union of ot parties has just broken Germans German created her financial po positIon nth th her own hands fIrst fIrsth h by refusing to pay reparations from 1920 to 1923 afterward by the measures she has taken since the Ruhr occupation The rhe German press brings brines striking Information on this subJect Almost all the papers estimate the cost of passive resistance at gold fold marks or a a total of about eleven billions billion ons The Telegraph Union agency de- de fending defending de the Industrialists put puts the ures much higher It sas sae sa that the Ruhr Industry received only I twenty million gold cold marks mark at as gov- gov govI government government eov I subsidy or only S 8 per percent percent percent cent of the total cost of the tho pro pro- program program pro gram On this bad basis basic the I ot of e resistance amounted mounted not notto notto notto to eleven eleen billions but twenty fie twenty I hive hae quoted these figures because el the they answer the foolish things writ writ- written written writ written ten about Germanys Germany Inability to pay Scrutiny of ot the tho reparations I Ions accounts as an of last July shows sho that In goods roods and cash Germany has haa paid In three thre and a ahalt ahalt halt half ears ers less le s than eight billion gold marks Yet Yet In less than nine months she has had been able to throw Into the tho Ruhr gulf fult a sum um esti- esti estimated esti estimated mated by iy y some somo at eleven en billions and by others at ta t twenty enty bli- bli billions Iloni lions CREDITORS Add to this thle all that Germany has paid to arlous various subventions sub since the armistice what she has ha bought abroad what the she has spent de- de de developing eloping her rall au canals and mercantile marine and one reaches a minimum of ot forty billion gold marks of ot which Germany has haa ha systematically systematically systematically robbed her creditor cre All AI this goes roes to show how that It if the allies had united In iq 1920 1 20 to compel German Germany to pa pay sho he would have paid a sum um five or aix Ix lx times time M as great as s that which she sho ho has paid Then there ther would ha hae have e been ben no necessity tor for occupying the Ruhr fluhr and Europe's Europ economic reconstruction reconstruction tion lion would have o been The departure ot of o the United States from the th allies and later lator Prime Primo Minister Llo Lloyd Georges George's policy made mad Germany hope hop to es- es escape escape es escape cape her obligations and she eh has spent on resistance what she ehe h should have havo used to pay her debts Germanys Germany's default was as not be- be because b cau cause e she was Incapable of but because o she ho would not pay We Weare Wor 0 are aro where we are because of ot political political cal not economic reasons |