Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-20 | Page 10 | Europe Far from an Understanding

00 EUROPE FAR FROM FROMAN FROMAN PROMAN AN UNDERSTANDING There Ther remains a a largo lareo storm cloud on the boundary line between Franco and Germany according to Frank H II Simonds an authority on European diplomacy France under Versailles I treat Is to remain fifteen years year on onI or the west bank of the th Rhine If it Ger Ger- Ger Germany I many failed to pa the war claims claim The debate in the French sea sen senate nate I ate says say Simonds discloses disclose the determination of ot France The Dawes report has bas ha been accepted and It Inferentially calls call for tor the military evacuation as a It te textually demands the end of o the economic exploitation of ot the Ruhr France will comp comply but at al the tb tame same time she is not asked aked a ked b bi by the report to abandon her occupation of o the be left bank of the Rhine and she does not mean meau to take for or granted ranted Ger Ger- German Ger- Ger German German man performance an and thus thu herself of o all remedy In case of German duplicity If It the British are ready to give elve France Franc some form of guarantee that t th ey y wilt m loin join Franco France in coercive measures measure If Germany Germ ny does doe not pay if It they the are ready to join Coln with the th French In fi- fi financial fi ft financial sacrifices reducing French de debt bt to Britain as France reduces German debt to France Franc and thus reduces the period of ot occupation of the Rhine Rhin as an assurance of o Ger German German German man payments France Franc is prepared t to bargain but that is the th presen present extent of French and anthis this stand will have ver very disagree disagreeable disagreeable able echoes both In is London and Berlin Undoubtedly there can be b no compromise with France which does not guarantee France Franc against possible aggressions h by Germany In the years to come The Th French looking to the time Urn when Germany Is released and has recovered her strength of ot Industry and arms are lve and th they y intend to tomake tomake make a war ar of ot on the part of o Berlin Impossible