| Show France and Germany On Better Terms at Close of 1926 Than Ever Is Belief Former Fonner Enemies Now Compete in Ath Athletics tics University Lecturers and Books Replaced Spirit of Locarno Peace Pact Is Declared Responsible Ii For or Good Feeling PARIS Dec Dee By 31 l By The Th Ac- Ac As ThO Th Pre relations relation I AS-I be be tWEen Trance France and Germany at the end of or 1928 are ore better than ever before judging from front all the sur cur suri surface surface i face Indication The general opinIon opinion ion here hero Is Ia that they will co- co coil to Improve e A score of or front from Ber Ber- Berlin Ber- Ber Berlin lb lin are ore competing with the nag Eng Eny list tiller IrIs gina on the music hail dage In 1 Ii Pan Pari Paris Alpine and ond other German films are ar crowding tar far t lOo le we t picture oft off the th movie screen German 1 boxers are arc taking the count In local I ring to the sympathetic applause of or French rans fanc rOOTH JJ CONTESTS German football lI teams Are Ine re lag Ing the tho French on the gridiron German lectures lire are listened to with respectful attention on th the platforms German books have o regained their places OIl French bookstalls Tr Tho Get Get- Getman Getman German man Is heard l alm almas almost as commonly as the th English on the boulevards and two papers paper pub pul published In their language are ore tur fur fur- fur news to the German colony and to German tourists tourist These Thes are ara the material Indira- Indira ot of o the extent to which th war Its horrors and Its It con con con- con quence have Ila been forgotten otten as between n the French and the th Ger- Ger Germans Ger Germans mans SPIRIT r OF or 01 LOCATiNG Loc The of or Locarno did II it say the admirers admirer of Foreign Min Un Minister ister Briand who In obtaining from Germany a guarantee of or cc- cc s Is credited with b about the tho th most moat formidable ye re vereal re-vereal In International sentiment or of modern times Inquiry among public men and private citizens citizen or all parties and categories discloses that there Is I a IL strong conviction that while oc Locarno rno was wag the tho means of or realizIng realizing ing ii A n reconciliation with Ith Germany the disappointments disappointment and disadvantages disadvantages J- J vantages France Franc suffered In peace settlements supposedly by or of abandonment by her allies hll had to do with It That French opinion Is ripe for fora tora IL a close understanding with Ocr Ocr- Ger Germany n m many Is 1 admitted In lit au all aU parties with tho the reservations that defense Gessler's cai- cai can CI cannot not be b accepted as u harmonizing with Foreign Minister manns mann's Thoiry policy The Th ques ques- ques question qu s tion Is la regarded retarded for the moment as one of or Interior German poll poll- politic poli politic tics tic tic France rance i Is ready to fors forg t ta II a lot and ond to concede much It Ir the Idea gains rains the th upper Inside German Germany POLICY I IS PEACE CE The Tiie policy or of o France Is b p peace ace said M If Briand explaining the th negotiations toward France Ocr man r reconciliation II It Is not possible for tor the entire pt t to tobe tobe tobe be obliterated at one stroke e All difficulties cannot be don done away wIth Ith at t on once o but ut the th ess essential prelIminary of ot reciprocal good wil w has been affirmed It It Wilt was wa not II a a negligible quan quail quantity thy that Germany at ot Locarno r- r r re renounced flounced rec u rae to force torce and agreed to s settle Ule conflicts between herself and her neighbors by con con- con conciliation on or arbitration Every Ewry Everyday Everyday day we 0 take tak a II step forward c Cs c H day we wo sl II a a question o or cohe A pr bl blem m TR nr NEEDED Commercial relations and Germany have ha t blocked by the fluctuating and ond t je the temporary tariff 1 10 0 ears i-ears ears of negotiatIons with A Il M PV iv to col complete ll te commercial ar- ar agre- agre ment meat tailed failed fo for that reason The European steel trust and thO th German I pol potash ash rt have o brought tho Illo thou I ntH reals clor together clos r but they do not In lit any anyway anyway anyway way effect business exchanges he- he between be between tween the two countries Tn Thy y pave the way for a better corn corn- com commercial mercial mercil understanding when other Conditions becom propitious 00 00 |
