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Show EUROPE AGREES I TO BRIEF PEACE Not Ready to Guarantee Non-Aggression Pact Beyond Be-yond Present Year By WILLIAM BIRD (CopyriRht, 1922. by Tho Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) LONDON, May 20 Some Idea of I the Infl&mmable state of Europe may bo glo.med from tho fact that the jriiarantoos of the mutual non aggros-! aggros-! slon pact now are phrased in months Instead of In years, Lloyd Georges original non-aggressive agreement was to cover ton years. The truce finally obtained operates barely nine months. Europe is not ready to agree to keep the peace much beyond the present year of 1922. After that, what? Th-I Th-I Significance of these facta la deeply impressing the British nation, i uey now are divided behind Lloyd George, 'so far an torelfcn policial are concern-led, concern-led, almost to a man. This Is u sharp change from last week. The people now believe that their premier worked day and nicht at Genoa against threat of war determined de-termined to bring about lasting peace if possible and finally obtaining by su-i su-i perhuman effort a brief truce during j which now peace offorts can bo put ! forth. FRANCE THOUGHT WARLIKE Vi hen Lloyd George appears In the house of commons Monday or Tuesday Tues-day he will receive tho biggest ova tion of his career and the whole nation will echo it. The nation would applaud him If he snare to say that Francs today waa the biggest obstacle to peace although he will not say It. Those who say that English public opinion Is for the entente en-tente at any price are mistaken. Englishmen, Eng-lishmen, especially those whose sons fought, bled and died besldo their French comrades, would regret an open rupture for sentimental reasons but will not blame their government If it conies. They regard France, rather than Russia, as tho main obstructionist ob-structionist at Genoa and are mystified mysti-fied at America's apparent support of France. British public opinion considers Lloyd George as the great peacemaker and France as a sabre rattling nation. An impartial observer, however, cannot can-not see It that way Lloyd Georgo waa working for peace, but peace on British terms palx Brlttanlca. France obstructed such a peace not because Franco wants war but because she wants peace on other terms The test, of Lloyd George's disinterestedness In seeking European peace easily Is I made. One need only ask what has he over done toward reconciling France and Germany. The answer Is nothing and the reasons are clear The traditional British policy Is a divided Europe with England holding the balance bal-ance and making all others dependent on her friendship at any price France German unity Is the last thing England would foster If It Beenied probable, t la practically certain that Ixmdon would do everything to forestall it MEANS HEAVY BLOW The British Tory "die hards" pay that Lloyd George is destroying tho Brlllsh empire but they know full well that he Is working for a European peace on British terms only and will accept war rather than any other peace. If Franco and Germany tomorrow made a pact similar to tho Russo German Ger-man treaty of Rapallo it would establish es-tablish European continental peace jon a rock foundation but It would also ! be tho greatest blow British foreign policy ever suffered. No Informed ; honest observer will question that. And that shows bettor than anything 'the essential difference between peace and paix Brlttanlca. oo |