Show mm SAYS OLD GROUNDS ARE COVERED I Parts of Baldwin Speech Pronounced Mere Banality I B n A ANDRI I r Ionne French 1 High h Commission Commissioner cr er to the tue United States Stalco Special SJ Cable to Tim The J Examiner Copyright 1923 PARIS July H 1 With With as lIS anxIety as evinced before Prime Minister ter Baldwin made hi his tiona reparations declaration to the house or of commons Prance France now the tho debate that will come n as ti I result of Mr Bald Baldwins Baldwin's In statement I At first blush bluh it seemed that Baldwin planned not a new policy but a new world orld policy Yet on second thought and andIn andin andIn In reality his declaration was ns another link In the long chain of oC which Jias been ben taking prace for tor months bet between een the Brit Brit Brit- British British ish and French in their diverging views on reparations and the Baldwin announces his Ills action for forthe forthe forthe the morrow but ne falls to state his decisions I r POINT J OI T I One Ono single point is of ot Immedi immedi- immediate Immediate ate practical England considers the latest German note deservIng or ot an an She believes it merits ex- ex ex examination and France and Belgium as everybody knows s i thinks differently 1 the h corn com com which followed the last Franco Belgian conference declared declared ed the German note unacceptable Such Is the precise disagreement existing existing- between the French and ana British viewpoints and the gulf sep them is not expected to narrow in the next few days I Baldwin In it Is true said that since no one bad had taken talen the initiative to prepare a common answer to Ger- Ger Germany Ger Germany I Ger-I many England Borland was taking the re- re responsIbility responsibility re responsibility and that w when hen hell the an- an ans an answer s Sn or er was waa ready it would b br be corn com communicated com communicated to the allies In the hope that an agreement on It would be reached When this communication I tion is received debate arter after dt- dt debate de debate bate will ill III lt follo France and Bel- Bel BelgIum Slum Bel-Slum glum gIum persist in thinking thanking an answer to Germany is unnecessary Nev Nev- Nev Nev there thre will be debates for tor torno forno torno no doubt Premier POincare and ana Premier Theunis of ot Belgium do not have exactly the same opinion on J the value of o the th German Cerman note M 1 sOlE 11 UI BAN NUJ ll Except for tor this ho howey hoey however ey thu British declaration sass sa s nothIng Certain parts are ar even quite banal It Is IB well understood that in dif dif- dlf- dlf different ferent forent cases case Is often Use Use- Useful use useful ful fui In hiding a dh of ot lews But after acter tour lour years what Is the tho use of reiterating reiterating- an agreement as asto asto asto to the aim of ot nations arc are unable to agree acre as to the means T What Is the use rise of saying Europe cannot find peace unless three problems problem r r national security and Inter inter-allied debts are solved when etch of or these problems contains a conflict between n those whose cot cot- col collaboration Is necessary before any ot of them can be solved J JN IJ O 0 ov On the other hind the Iho British prime minister expressed regarding the tho occupation lIe ito makes it re- re re responsible for all alt present and future troubles He lie forgets that for tor mor more than three thre-o years Germany lis flaunted a throat threat of bankruptcy In inan Inan nn an effort to escape the penalties she rl hll rightly deserves He Ito forgets and ani and the same kame reproach nolY be addressed to Premier that that the tho Ruhr tion occupation Is not an absolute entity that carried out another way it might hate ha escaped the criticism the present way ay provokes The pres- pres present i I ent tot debate does not stress Iress the th points points l of or this essential element clement Baldwin complains that econom econom- economIe economIC economic I ic Ie anarchy is lS following follow follo me the Ruhr o It If lat last Jan Jan- January January uary wiry had used other methods s If itlie lie he had imposed the sovereignty or military law on the Get Get- min mm Industrials instead of or notify notify- I notify In lag them that he ho wished their Rood good goodwill will III and the wilt will of their esl work would have havo continued and the Ruhr would hate hale been a Uve pledge in a II real sense lad Had I HadI this been done Franco France would HadI I ed the results or of o which she I Is now deprived And the occasion for Bald Baldwins Baldwin's Ins In's criticism would not exIst Baldwin said saidI I ARE ARC n D notI I I I The Ruhr produced less les reparations in 1323 1923 than tItan It did dil in 19 1922 TIn This is true truo but it simply means r that the tho occupation methods were I bad It does not mean that more not hive been obtained by reI other methods But re- re re I haughtily all criticism has prevented the favorable answer And also aiso when Baldwin with equal haughtiness condemns the tha occupation patton pation he forgets that t two 0 y ago on May 12 1921 to be exact Lloyd George Georg then Ihen British prime minister proclaimed that occupation tion might become necessary and ended his speech with Ith the thi following follow- follow ing words During Duing the th war the Ruhr Wasa ia as n a great erea grea German arsenal tor for can cannon n shells and poison gas pas Industrial development in South Germany depends exclusively on Ruhr coal the Ruhr and industrial Ger Ger- Germany Germany many Is ruined I England therefore repudiates the tho prIncIple le or of o occupation which she formerly justified She places her her- herself herself her herself self on the same hame uncertain basis or of Premier Poincare who ho proclaims he has obtained the tho maximum re- re result re result sult suit from the occupation The de- de debate debate de debate bate between England and nd Franco Franc starts I with Ith a double equivocation 1 The EnglIsh take tako ad advantage o of the tho blunders The French deny the existence of blunders |