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Show GENOA INSULTS' AROUSEGERMAN Harden Thinks The Hague Meet Will Also Be Gigantic Fizzle BY MWmil.TW HARDEN Gcrmnnjr'a Foremost Publicist (Copyright. 1922i by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) BERLIN, May 27. The future hia-torian. hia-torian. reading the British and Gcr-, Gcr-, man newspapers, will conclude that I the Genoa conference, although not fulfilling nil hopes, was an event of 'cumulative importance. Why Is this written, printed and read when every Englishman knows that the Lloyd George hammer missed the nailhead this time? in Germany lies execedinu any circulated during the war sin tied ti-ed in hiding the fact that the elerman j government was accused by nine governments gov-ernments in two official letters and many .-mtrry .speeches Of disloyal and dishonest behavior; was excluded from the more Important discussions; was i not Invited to The Hague eonferenee, of experts and that nearly 200 officials, offi-cials, with the lira i-ostlng 16 marks enjoyed an aimless spring holiday on the Klverla without doing tho semblance sem-blance of useful work I As representatives of no K-rcat nation aver before have been Insulted In this way. extraordinary skill on the one hand and stupid Indifference, on the tuber were necessary to make the people peo-ple belb-vo their delegation played an important role nnd at the end were hiKhly esteemed. This effort was suc-i suc-i useful and enabled this absurd comedy com-edy to be turned Into a world historl-Cal historl-Cal event. I ORTUNES EXPENDED Three dozen governments, represented represent-ed mostly by Individuals who were becoming be-coming more and more accustomed to spending a large part of every' year in beautifully situated conference places With sumptuous living, these with reporters re-porters chronicling chatter and quarrels quar-rels not worth reporting, swallowing mounuilns of money, Who them would confess that the whole show was no better than a stack of wet fireworks'." Such confession woulel shoyv the people peo-ple that The Hague meeting will be superflurius. Enough already Is known tiooui ivuMiiiii 'oiiuiuems ;tnu Liie liui- shevlk mentality as Hoover's recent speech plainly showed to judge whether credit should be granted Russia Rus-sia without trying the arts of the Dutch cooks but The Hague, as the name implies. Is to be the hedge which hides political failures taking for granteed that the Cnlted States which some regard as greater Morganla, is so eager for continental recovery that the Olympic will blossom with dollars and Europe will bo turned Into n poliee-less poliee-less paradise. OPTIMISM AN VLYZED If nothing Is accomplished In the Carnegie peace palace the ministers might go to 6omc fashionable hathlng place and put the world In order dui Lng lunch and bless the people at dinner. din-ner. aii i his would be Impossible if the truth were known about Genoa. When Voltaire wrote "and that's how history-Is history-Is written.' nobody Imagined what new poison gas weapons official Ilea would havo at their command two centuries later. Today whi n home cominc delegations dele-gations are credited In the pnn rfl wltii "huge success and an extraordinary increase of German prestige," the dollar dol-lar Is worth 30 marks more thun be-foro be-foro the conference, meanwhile th" purchase value of the mark is falling and whether It will rise depends not on parliamentary oratory but on the Paris reparations loan negotiations. CON1 BAST '! W VSHINGTON The Genoa gathering received much greater attention here than the Washington Wash-ington eonferenee. What's the difference dif-ference between the two7 Washington Washing-ton was a qub-t Impartial discussion of state affairs Genoa was the greatest great-est show since ISarnum's. At tho former for-mer there was a clear program, the greater part of which was accomplished. accomplish-ed. At the latter there was confusion and a wist of words wherein no urgent European question was solved. It Is clear to every business man that ruined ruin-ed and starving Russia can get capital land credit only If old debts are recognized rec-ognized and private property guur.in-teed. guur.in-teed. Lloyd George was under the delusion de-lusion he could decoy the Russians from the Communist trenches, tame and without offering capital, parade them before his distrustful English constituents When he perceived this was pure Illusion he trle-d in an nntl-wur nntl-wur pact to pose before the old. and particularly before the now world, as a protector of peace and trade. When I'oincare declared France also wanted peace but did not believe trade could be obtained through compromises with those who refused to recognize j.r'M rtj ruiht the white haired g- ntle-man ntle-man from Wales could no nothing bul switch on tho lights In the lighthouse near The Hague. NOTHING BUT RECEIPTS There Is no real material for confer' con-fer' nee in that mass of quarrels and election tricks. Thirty goxernments 'had opportunity to present their views and take nothing home but hotel, res-.t)iiir;ini res-.t)iiir;ini and t' b graph receipts. Tho Russians have only been emboldened lin their demands for the nationaliz-i-jtion of foreign properties since their .hopes for gold were crushed. And Germany ? She has the Rapallo treaty which ensures absolutely noth-llng. noth-llng. It brings resumption of dlplo-matic dlplo-matic relations but aroused dangerous illusion in the nation. Ministerial speeches point to the danger from Increase,! In-crease,! ulochollc consumption bu . that's not all. Brandy, bier and lies havo produced a state of Intoxication. "We ami the Russians 200.00it.000 souls." If this makes Genoa a world's historical his-torical ecnt, and I myself see no other oth-er result everybody who wishes brighter bright-er days for Germany and desires Gorman Gor-man Intelligence used In world organl-iition organl-iition must oppose it. |
