Show RECOGNITION I OF RUSSIANS GREAT STEP Italy Expected to Follow Action Taken By Britain Bt BY A G 0 ROIER G G Greatest Liberal Editor Sp l Radio to Th The Standard Standard Examiner Examiner Copyright 1924 1 24 b by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Pre Frees Pres s J England s 5 nw new labor 0 rn ment has haq ha taken an Important though expected Step tep tp In reco log Ini Soviet Russia Ital Italy i Is expected to do likewise next a 1 eek and soon countrIes will b be tumbling over each other Gardiner says ays aay In a dis- dis dispatch dispatch dl patch patch today to toll follow ow the sensible example LONDON Feb Fob Momentary 2 calm pre ails while the th labor gov- gov government eov eminent Is engaged In preparing a policy with which to meet parlia parlia- parliament parliament mentA ment mont recognition A Js the 1 writer ariter predicted recognition tion tion ot of the SovIet t govern govern- government ment ment ns aas wn the first Important act ot of the new Russia Russin re- re re-fu re d d to acknowledge hr hor debts debt be- be be before tore fore recognition but consented to setting up a mixed commission tb fb consider all matters matter outstanding between the th t tao 0 countries Immedi Immedi- Immediately immediately Immediately political recognition reco become an accomplished fact tact England hating hang giten ghen l en tho lead leadIn leadIn leadIn In recognition the writer the tho prediction that all countries 5 ill III he be b tumbling o 0 er Cr ea each h other to follow tollow so o to n n example GRAVE S niO The moot tant ot o all Is I what will be Prime Minister Macdonald s attitude to toward rd France lie He II has ha had polite exchanges with Premier Poincare but these thes thO le do not conceal the ne i of the situation Tho The Immediate danger dancer point Is Ithe the point of British troops troop at COlogne This Tills area now Is practically cally blockaded and the latest In- In incident In Incident concerned wills will the th holding up of o supplies for tor British troops themselves constitutes constitute the grosset Indignity yet sustained longtime The aim of ot Prance France tor for B II long longtime time has been to make the til position of the British In the th occupied area aroD untenable and secure their with with- with drawl In order to facilitate the French policy polley In the th Ruhr R and the and to leave the th whole problem In the th hinds hands of ot France Macdonald Maedonald Is beIng urged cd urge to de- de deIllY delay de delay lay IllY ot of o his policy polley the French elections lost lest tho th affect be to French opinion on the th side sio ld of ot Pr Premier Poincare J POPi OI O EAK rD El The Th opinion prevails that Poin- Poin Poincare Poin- Poin Poincare care s i position i Is much v a Internally and the th possibility of ot a change of ot go Is not re- re remote r mot mote mote But the th tragedy of o past pat oars ears has orison orlen from failure of ot sive Ivo British governments to act It iti decision lon In the tho hope hop that by waiting France Franc e would come corn to a i frame framo of mind The Th ye- ye re result suIt sult ha has hai been heen that o has bias acted n as q though Great Britain did not exist Macdonald s 8 plain dut Is 15 to put hi his po position and Intentions of ot thU country before betor the th orld delay It 1 I ii not Improbable that Mac Mac- Macdonald's Macdonald's Mac donalds donald's chief trouble Till III arise oer o'er proposed naval economIes The writer understands that tint Phillip Snow Snowden len chancellor of ot the th ex- ex ex chequer Is demanding five million pounds sterling reduction In naval navales navales es mates and that thit the th Singapore na naval val base bnO scheme schema Mill alit be bo radically modified It if not definitely aban aban- abandoned aban- aban abandoned abandoned Already dy the th press pres Is raising the cry hands bands ot off the navy which Is Isalas alas Is n II popular cry Kith Ith which to spread panic panle amon among amone i II people holly dependent upon the th sea METHODS It Is 15 unfortunate at nt this moment that attention Is dh to the tho American Amerlean proposal to modernize 13 battle ships hip to equalize thoU theli sup sup- supposed supposed sup supposed posed Inferiority to British ships rho Dilli News In deploring the tho tact fact observes Tho The Th agitation so o energeticallY ener promoted by the th American na nasal al proves an lion Instruct e com corn commentary commentary upon the tho Insidious lous meth meth- methods meth- meth methods methods by which the th race raco In arma arma- armaments armaments ments merits boffin begins and develops develop e ac meant to honor the th signatures ot of the th WashIngton treaty In spirit piritas as Moll ell U oil as In letter Happily Anglo American rela reIn relation relations tion are ar such uch as to make mak trouble unthinkable but the tho th correspondent cannot help ln the tho th wide wide- widespread widespread spread regret voIced In liberal circles hero at the th appearance of oC a competitive frame tram of mind realm here It had been boen hoped reason reMon pro n Ii ailed lied beyond challenge The Th Washington Wa conference I is regarded hero here her as a the th one on bright bricht spot pot in III the tho th miserable tor I tory of ot the world a 9 affairs affair ot of o the th past th fie 0 years ears Is een n that bright spot to tobe tobe tobe be tarnished After After ACter nine nin daIs da during which h the communications ere acre paralyzed ed the strike of ot the m men n was wan I settled by a s compromise The Th eon con con conflicts filets turned upon the case cat of bes be's le s Ithan than 80 60 men ers of o long oIls dis- dis dl tance Lance tance tl but the th effect of ot the tho th stoppage was calamitous Now the th country Is 1 threatened bY a national strike ot of doc 1 workers and the minors base hae ha c announced their inton- inton Intention tion ot of o terminating the tho national I agreement In April Thus the ad adent nt of the th labor got got- EO eminent coincides with an exceptional condition of at o Industrial 1 die die- dis content and the th prospect almost unending series of o disputes dispute ot of a I character In those tho circumstances Mr MacI MacI Macdonald Mac- Mac I donald I donald Is I expected to Iu har liao 0 a difficult cult task talk b between preserving pr public interests and antI the th support of his hi own followers who already I roady feel tI that the tho 1 government Is too clas cla clas and I to represent th the Ie S jot of labor n I |