Show FRESH FRESH BB SHOCK SHOCKs I IS s GiVEN OiVEN TO JADED WORLD MIO Meanwhile Meanwhile Situation on I Continent Grows More Complex By A T T rIn French high Commissioner to 10 the States I Copyright 1923 PARIS Au Aug 4 To To a world Wr- Wr ur felted with amazing and arid conflicting motions emotion eom comes s as a Il fresh tresh shock the n news nes B of the he de death th of ot Preel- Preel President dent Harding France even h be- be beholden hold bg-hold holden n to the I States ex- ex ex extends tends a client lI nt By path P th to the pee peo- peo people pIe pe of ot America Am ria in their hour of tor fer their passing chief An- An An I AnI otier Iter milestone In the gloomy pro pro- progress pro progress I gress grus Qt et tie te times has ids been bt n pass pus passed ed Meantime the European sit sit- sit situation I grows complex It will nt I ho bo long beton Germany b becomes come as incomprehensible to hor hoc cont contemporaries m- m as Soi So Soviet let Russia Rusio I she has earned the dis- dis of beI being a II country c mont money Who Vho can say MY whether sho I has il spirit Some SOnic one will reply that th the Ruhr occupation tion has glen given en her a new ne nation 1 I spirit in the form torm that the Ruhr occupation has g given gen en her a ne new na- na naI national na national spirIt In the form torm of ot hat hate I nut But that r reply ply Is 19 too caB and Is not correct H Hite te is no new thing I to Germany It wee was not born In InI Inthe inthe Inthe I the disappointment of ot defeat Ger Ocr Germany Germany many did not hate us less tIer after beating un us in 1171 1871 Bismarck marck was merely the spokesman of ot the chool ot of which from the be- be beginning ginning bl ginning of ot the nineteenth century hu has taught taur-hl the thO th Germany to hate their neighbor IH HATES L NOnI STATE The excuse was that German had suffered much In the course coure ot oi centuries But by whose Germany hatte us e we e boat beat beather I beatI beatI her She would hate us I It IC she had beaten us uc u It Is her normal state ot of mind and does not her p herp-p p ent psychology Nor can UI the French say cay the new v n tendency is the tha domin- domin dominant ant ant characteristic today The pro pro- provincial provincial pro provincial German has not changed chang I lIe He I Is passive passie and docile as alway As always he lie obeys oby gO I The workers would be leos lees tractable bl but the they are arc not I ma masters of ot the situation WI- WI WImar mar Wol-mar mar mar republic has liar already utilized the socialists eer Ices and Its for for- for foreign or eign policy polley onder inder ind r their directIon has baa not been bf n different from that of Cuno the great business man FEW PROTESTS RE HE RD But the thc fallacy of ot two German German- Germanics lies tea ics has been exploded That song was sung to us before the war hen in May 11 1914 our and ad parties went nent nt to Berne to tra fra traV r- r r r nize with the self st led representatives es of ot one of ot those thOM two Get Gel Gei manles manies But In the fOlio following ing Au Aug August the Reichstag was as In favor or of ot aggressive war ar ar and all I allI the tho After Arter our victory at the Marne to toI tobe tobe tobe I be sure a few ew protests were heard but not before Conquered Germany seems to toI toha ha hae e adopted the cult of ot fraud with withas I S I much much enthusiasm as conquer conquer- ing conquering Germany adopted that of or forc The The writer speaks not only of the tho reparations of ot which France has the right to complain All Germany practices practiceD tra fraud ud against and against Germans as aswell ell cli as foreigners Thanks to the cleer cle depreciation of ot the mark mrk no loan Is repaid at Its Just Intern Internal debts ha hae have e gone up In smoke The payment Is nothing but speculation In exchange Waste has become a state Institution and the go law of ot private individuals Statistics whether irn- irn Imports Im Imports ports or exports are ore doctored rol this gigantic lie serves as a screen to hide the nation a s production fron foreign eyes and that productIon with unimpaired equipment goes on with a rhythm NOTHING G 0 re nt-re BIT The Th wonderful example of admin administrative order afforded by Hohen- Hohen zollern zOllern Germanys Germany's Germany s 's s nothing but mory memory toda In no nation nallon are the tho public servants BO so corrupt and nowhere will men so readily betray their neighbors tot for money y It Is as ad It Ita asIt adIt a m x nl spring were broken bro There Is 15 a national technique but no national ethics An And that Is what will wilt make all It ne negotiations dif dif- difficult dif difficult with that misled Agreements Ag will be made tures ture will nill be b obtained but when hen the time line theline comes tor for execution nobody wilt will b be there thero That I Is what pas has happened In recent ears a and that Is what the tile writer ariter fears tors t ars will happen In the years eare to co con come e |