| Show KRUPP TRIAL CALLED FARCE IBY ENGlISH Editor Gardiner Says Time Has Come for Plain Speaking I IBY BY fly A G a G C Ml HI Great GIat Britain's t t Liberal Editor 11 tor Copyright 1923 LO LONDON DON May 12 D WhIle While the go remains In complete control of the tho situation despite the attacks by bv former Pro Pre Premier Pre Premier mier ruler and Lord nobert flobert Cecil on the German Ruhr policy it gen gen- generally gen generally rally Is accepted 1 that the time for tor I plain plaIn speech and plain actions has come come Heretofore England has accepted humbly enough affront from France In the tho hope halo eventually e that nation would come to a 0 reasonable frame Crame of mind But It Is la unanimous unanimous- unanimously ly agreed dismemberment of Ger Ger- Germany Ger- Ger Germany Germany many Is no part of British policy and if France Is made to subordinate subordinate nate nale reparations to pursue that policy through permanent occupation occupation tion Lion of the Ruhr England must be driven publicly to proclaim her op- op opposItion opposition op opposition position to such a schem scheme which must Ine Inevitably plunge Europe into another war J D GL D S fD Frances France's action In bluntly turning down the German offer London has had bad a ry ery bad effect No country likes openlY to be snubbed especially where Its interests are Investigated Our against German Germany are consideration ind nd this gesture of oC contempt Is one which no sell sell- respecting country can s sallow allow lightly In Jo slamming the door a settlement Prance France is sic tho the British tax payer to a policy of at political destruction of Germany The fhe feeling of at the people is well veil expressed pressed by the statement in par par- parliament par parliament that If it France can spend four millions sterling in the she sho can afford to pay the debt she sho 10 ones es England nd Moreover public publico o Is outraged by the grotesque farce in Essen this week eek Thirty German workmen were shot dead by French soldiers without the shadow of an excuse and Herr I Krupp rupp Von Van Boehlen's sentence of 15 years Imprisonment as IlS a nas amazing to SlY siy the least Such Sucha 1 a travesty of justice was enough to tomake tomake make the angels Beep veep or laugh But hat is to be bo said aid of at a country which confronts the world with such uch a colossal colossa Insult to its intelli intelli- intelligence gence e and sense of ot justice on this I the of ot the king and Qu queen en to Italy a Important Tho The enormous en- en en enthusiasm of their reception oas nas a significant fact tact which vis nis not lost loston on French opinion It Is noticeable that throughout Italy has ben been halt half hearted in her hu support ot of the Invasion Ion a-Ion as a debt collecting agency and now all faor favor fa or of ot I policy lit h l hi-l evaporated while the traditIOnal Italian sympathy S with I England is resuming sway hway s way ThIs land tact fact is creating disquiet in France fOrance sees herself herselt drifting Into isolation supported only Iby by French speaking Belgium and andI I the nea ne central European states she has armed and militarized ed edIn In such huch circumstances persIstence In the tho policy of aggression in the gron grows s S increasingly hazardous I IThe The danger is that as conviction of I failure Increases the methods nut TV 1111 I become In involved with results It is impossible to see Poincare now frankly Is gambling on the chance of of breaking Germany before ho he himself is broken at home This desperate aim compels him to em- em employ employ em employ ploy radical means He Is on the horns of oC a dilemma from which I there thero is no escape now that he has refused the German proposal l opinion of oC all countries has endorsed the tho German proposal as a basis for tor discussion and espe pe espe- espe especially especially cl approves es the submission lon of tIe the German figures to the judgment of an International commission of financial experts In flouting thIs orld opinion Franco france condemns herself to Isolation Not without bearing on the tho sit sit- situation situation sit situation is the tact fact that the British government announces its lis new air air- aircraft aircraft air aircraft craft program The enormous su- su supremacy su supremacy of at the tho French air ser Ice has ha ted crested profound concern and anda anda II a demand that the cou courtry try be in a position to defend itself too strong to be resisted Thus four years vicars cars after the war and England commence comp for tor domination of the theair theair theair air l this his indeed is a melancholy sequel to the sacrifice of at ten million lives to make the world safe sate for tor 00 00 |
