Show I Refusal i Toi of England j To Mw Sign Protocol BJ A iF f r it E Explained vH y i B e x ULU UI jL i TARDIEU SEES NO VALUE OF SIGNATURES Bitter Comments Made Madon on Defeat of Geneva eneva Protocol DRI T I IT Deh HIgh High lono or 11 to tire the lilted dates n Special Dispatch 1925 1 by The Consoli Consolidated dated Press Association France Franco c expected Ingland to reo re- reject re reject the tho Geneva Genev protocol because the tho present British government has hasa hasa ha haa a different Idea than ilsan tho one ono which orIginally agreed to It But the tho formal act net ot of repudiation hu his hI brought ought forth rom front rom 01 Kiench ench st le men inch some tome rather bitter comments comment on the tir subject ot of broken enga ments c e- e ments Andre Andr Tar Tardieu leu In his rue rue- dis dispatch patch today risks asks what hat alue alue attach to Germany s a signatures signature to her latest proposals for tor security since Ramsay Macdonald sIgna- sIgna sIgnature lure na ture to the protocol royed Ilo to beso bc be so ort PARIS tarch J 14 14 4 The Tue Tir debates at Geneva Genesa which the newspapers call all historic historic doubtless doubtless because they can not possibly load lead any any- anywhere here one more mele lample e or of hat nhat n hat the writer sometime ago called bankruptcy o or of al signatures a phia c b by Viscount James Brace Erce This bankruptcy Is It a character character- characterIstic characteristic ot o an epoch bleh began beean In 1914 with lIh the tho magnificent double amplo ot of fidelity to given by rance I-rance and England DId th the at that hat moment exhaust the capacitY for tor faithfulness Consul Consul- Considering Consid ering what hat has happened sInce 1920 one on I Is tempted to belle e so 0 o Austen AUlen Chamberlain was aas as doing nothing new when 01 ot Thursday he demolished the Geneva proto proto- protocol cot col Ramsay Macdonald M a as British prime minister signed In September Mr Macdonald hImself hail had torn up the p pI 0 Iding for mutual assIstance drawn up b Lord Robert Cecil and preceding British and the heads or of these governments In III turn turn- turn notably David Dald Lloyd Llo d George Georee who himself signed the treaty trealy oi of o er er er spent pent pent their bt be t efforts dc- dc tro what hat had ben been pre ratified by the house ot of o common u s is JS American i leaders n ill e ethe the writer Hiler It li he h 1 that the United States In lit a more legal man man- mannor manner nor ner but equally heavy hea y with ith con con- consequences con consequences sequences sequenes had set Bet an e ample or 01 indifference to the th past which un- un undoubtedly un undoubtedly did much to encourage the British ministers In that dl- dl direction di direction Bv By refusing to ratify the ii only ot of by making a separate peace with wills Germany Grman b 1 treaty treats obligations while still bUll claiming the benefits ot of them such such as repayment ot of 0 army costs the United Stales States go cov eminent dis- dis displayed pia played ed a total lack ot of political France in 1914 1314 under Premier Ii h rant felt morally bound b bv the thc Russian tranco treaty signed liv bv bvM bvM M H Ribot The Th United States tale In 1921 under P President Harding found It convenient to reject noc no only her engagements encasements but even eten the th principles which had gulde guided 1 the th American polie a sear car earlier on- on onder un under der This is what hat Abraham LIncoln'S successors ors did In the matter malle 0 of re- re reconstruction reconstruction construction after aler the th Ch Civil 11 war It is perfectly legal but It Is perfectly legal certaInly also it doe doc not help to 0 disentangle affairs from rom their complexities Wall Wait hitman a ier ere o rite rh Divin Re- Re Resides Reside sides In the Non New and anel Emerson s a aphorism The Old Is 19 Por Slave Slaves are scarcely sound found max max- maxims has ims in Iii diplomacy J I 11 J JL i ti L t lt J 0 nov Ai As A a final paradox we no Irate p a ranee who was nas s the victim of 01 all these repudiations In them without once insisting n re- re respect for or written promise promIsed al- al although al although though certainly the he practical bus bus- mess Iness men ot or England and the th United States Ites would Irate have understood under- under stood tood such uch Insistence l I ormer PremIer sacrificed pun pun pun- of ot war ar gUilt d lh erla and pa payment ment of or certain reparations Ho He H oven even made agree agree- agre himself lIen nisen as without con con- consulting the allies he occupied and recognized General 0 rangel Premiers Briand and Poincare- Poincare lire first crt adroitly adroit the second sour sour- sourly ly Iy wrangled bargained In- In instead stead ot of 0 imply simply In text as a matter 0 of fact for tor or per per- ronal honl and arid political 1 th the tiie had ad tried 10 to discredit be- be before ore ore th they reached po pone powe e furthermore more nore they broke their word to 1 England when they negotiated the eor an-eor-a a treatS I and evacuated e Chan Chan- Chanak Chanak ok ak In violation of or th the solemn agree agreement mont ment of or September 1314 1914 Ml 11 ll oC or these despicable bargains ind md are today to 10 b be bethe the basis upon which attempts He are being made to 10 build lasting peee tt at Geneva Genesa and h elsewhere then Ihen complain It if England later lales one Olle more document which Ie h more recent and les le s And now non after all signatures si nr are what hat li is proposed An- An Another Another oth other I Given Chen by whom By y Germany But cutely If It It Is 18 cd that Ihal Germany s first sig- sig signature nature nas wa as good there helo Is no need ned for tor another and It If It I la is belIeved bad why hy multiply It II lf One might alo also ask asic Austn Austen ChamberlaIn how many signatures he would require to evacuate GIl- GIl I altar laitar J Malta lalla Suei Sue Aden 0 01 or Sing Sine pore For these problems are the same samo as France Franco s a and the old ol fable able Ca of ot the note nole and the tIre beans beam beamm m us the th case rAso exactly exactly n |