Show Hardings Harding's Death Expected To Effect European Politics ENTENTE DEAD NOTED BRITISH WRITER YH 4 Failure To Agree G Note Results Disastrously n nA BY B A c G G raI Jt r ri i l tOl OD 1923 Au 4 1 neve ne b In the Iuster of ot the United tate tAI h a 0 new faced auch a 0 mane ot of disconcerting ing e events abroad aa 03 that Calvin ln Coolidge the ne ne of ot tt le je He takes taI office w ten t tl II e future ot of i is at the tho darkest est pitch Will VItI America under hll hi tutelage e tahe a amere amere mere active p part rt it In world Affairs I Is a Qu question which into any or ot of th thi future ThIs The entente is ston dead Parliament never convened In such an atmo of ot gloom as a pervaded Westminster 1 day hurt hurt- day indeed not since the he m memorable mor- mor morable able 3 1014 hL hij a elate elate- Itte from the treasury bench created such euch a somber lon lonon on th the country a as that cau caused d by bythe bythe bythe the speeches of ot Prime Minister and Foreign The They disclosed the corn com complete corn h plate failure allure of ot Baldwin In B a efforts effort tolI to st lI induce d uce Poincare to a agree ree to a joint allied reply to the Herman lerman offer of June Juno 7 A few tew hours later loter cams came the tra tragic ic news newa of ot the death ot of Mr HardIng H There was as as no analogy between the two save common nits nits- mIsfortune fortune nils-fortune fortune and the possible effect on future UNPLEASANT T NT PEELING FLiNG The Tiie character of ot the ne between the French and British h has not lIet been disclosed for tor Baldwin has not published the documents But Buth Buthia Buthis h his significant statement that France rance tailed to reply to the Brit British nt- nt ish Ih draft drAtt rUt of the proposed 1 allied re- re reply reply re reply ply to Germany has creot creat created d an tin feeling What follows First the Is gone cue care DC no longer lonser needs It ands and la ts cor- cor con confident of ot his bis power to defy all and to pursue handed the policy ot of breaking up GermAny His Hit delaying action has succeeded ded In preventing for tWo months n any reply from the allies to Germany In that interval In Germany Germony has bat ad- ad ad advanced by leaps and bounds and anarchy Is Imminent NEWT NEST STEP NOT Nor CLEAR It la Is Sot lot clear from Baldwin Baldwin Baldwin- what this next step will willbe willbe willbe be He Ue je spoke vaguely of the con oon- con continuation of negotiations with france but It Is universally realized that this is mere temporizing Moreover It is dangerous In tog for tor the longer England fails fuls to give a definite lead the tho noro nora more feeble becomes her position 0 In a situation Is desperately difficult A large section of ot tho the conservative dl die dio hards bards under the dolly dally frenzy of th ho armsworth press Is flog flog- flogging flogging ging Eing him from behind to accept dictation from and to jOin In crushing German German If it he be takes sUon strong action to tile the contrary It Itis itis Itis is conceivable that he be may be un- un un poised by these wild men His own yews clear and decisive are aro that the French policy la is ruining Europe will ruin France too His chief support ort comes not from hi his own t-ans t ran s but from the trading community and the opposition lead leal- era Will he ho have the tho courage to re- re reply reply re reply ply to Germany separately accept accept- accepting la tag ing the proposed International In- In Inquiry inquiry in inquiry Into reparations That Is Ishia hIs own wish In such a 0 a course courso he Is la assured of the friendly atti- atti attitude attItude atti attitude tude of Italy and ald In a 3 largo large meu- meu ure Belgian sympathy How far tar w w however Bel Belgium lum will to assume the appearance of France Is doubtful One CIne Is bound to Lace face the fact that a a friendly repy to the Ocr Ger German man government o will be the nailed coffin of ot Anglo Anglo But Dut the altern the Is unthinkable It v would mean that England us as a a political In- In Influence In Influence fluence flunce on the fats fata o of Europe Is dud dead to her own commercial exis exis- existence existence tence would be b destroyed beyond r recovery overy OIE Assuming that Baldwin the Inquiry momentous developments will follow Poincare will refuse to take part In any fly euch Inquiry Ha In has got his hie te teen teem n In Germany and he h will wUl not no suffer Inquiry nor Interference But Dut the tho now new policy would be launched ed and would focus fotus all enlightened thought In Europe Until such auch a Is taken th there re Is II no possibility of ot stopping lopping the drift on en the tho continent toward universal anarchy A America approve O such euch an Inquiry The The No proposal was vas orIgin originally all made by the American Secretary of State and nd If it endorsed by AmerIcan opinion the thc moral effect on the sitI situation sit- sit v T be overwhelming o I i Meanwhile the sinister turn o of r e events brings bring Iro grave ve problems to the front What In the thc new situation ought to be done dOlle with the BrItish troops in Cologne ne 7 Ever e the Ruhr discord began their post post- position tion ha has hu been beta equivocal and humi humi- humiliating Hating With the present that position may conceivably e be- become be become come dangerous Their continued presence long has been resented by bythe the French woh regard them as an obstacle to their aggressive plans It If the breach brach widens It is not Im- Im Improbable Im Improbable probable that Poincare will demand theIr withdrawal Such a course would profoundly embitter the tho feel feeling tn ing and place the British h govern overn govern ment In grave rave difficulty the flowing from the spectacle of ot the British army which spent a million lives on French bat bat- battlefields bat battlefields being being- ordered out ot of o tho by the 1 rench govern govern- government meet ment m nt I Will lh the League of ot Nations sur survive vive vise the dissolution o bt bf the entente France rance has haa ha always been contemptuous contemptuous contemptuous and ond I It if Germany Is 15 admitted to 10 the Ic league ogue probably will seize I the opportunity to withdraw and andi rely ostentatiously upon her In bayonets 1 These questions darken our sky I I today d L- L r i-r- |