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Show llNCARE GETS PANDORA BOX Sjench .Socialist and Radi-?wal Radi-?wal Papers Heap Scorn K Upon Premier. IjK By WILLIAM BIRD jBpeclal Dispatch to The Stand-JiUL Stand-JiUL nrd-Ebmmincr Kiyrlffht. 1922, by The Standardly Standard-ly Examiner) iECRIS. July S. Premier Polncare'a Hro for self exculpation has opened iihlm a Pandora's box of troubles. Iperlca knows very llttlo about tho ifepaiKn conducted for a lone: time In Jm French Socialist and radical pa-jS's pa-jS's against Polncaro and the war. TOb campaign has sought to prove, by 'ducing documentfl derived prlncl-ly prlncl-ly from Russian sources, that'Poin-:e that'Poin-:e foresaw and actively prepared the r-'in collaboration with tho czar's rernment and even pledged France back Russia whenever tho latter. b ready. 9 ' ' 'olncarc, during the last year, has ieme Increasingly irritated because the character of this campaign. Just ore assuming tho premiership ho Ivercd a series of lectures on the or-vof or-vof the war wherein ho summed up ievldence of Germany's-gullt. But fcampalgn has continued and ccr-n ccr-n papers never mention the name of ilprcmler without attaching the war ireto. jDlMAXDS OPEN DEBATE Recently a communist dally printed ileture showing Polncaro and Amer- n- Ambassador nenich. hirhb ough the cemetery at Verdun ap-rentlv ap-rentlv laughing. This picture has m printed on hundreds of thousands post cards. Dignity would seem to mand that such a matter bo Ignored ijjP.olncaro when taunted with it in ((chamber, demanded an open le-:o', le-:o', on the whole question. All par- even his most bitter enemies, with (exception of the communists, aup-rted aup-rted him and ho received an overtiming over-timing vote of conlidence, which parently clears him and greatly engthened his position. To those on tho Inside, however, it obvious that his demand for a vote fsuch a question, Is aB much a sign vvoakness as it was when Hloyd brge demanded a vote on the vaguo ms made public regarding the Gen-conference Gen-conference plans. QUESTION WILL NOT DOWN h reality, Polncare, while saving nsclf, has opened a most trouble-iie trouble-iie question which will not down, th Lloyd George and Clemenceaa jre declared that Germany's guilt for mencing the war is the basis for 'v"wholo Versailles treaty and unless it is admitted the entire structure Is to tho ground. Therefore, open-rthe open-rthe subject brings the whole peace tlemcnt into doubt and while the inch chamber may readily vote irwhelmingly for Germany's guilt, a ration arises in many minds. Versailles was a gathering of vic-w, vic-w, npt judges, and their verdict can-t'be can-t'be held to establish judicial truths. Hat is certain to arise in all counts coun-ts which do not accept tho treaty Versailles, and among men who k at tho facts impersonally Is a tnand for an Impartial Judicial initiation in-itiation into this quodtlon. Seten-C Seten-C truth cannot be deeded by a ma-rity ma-rity or even an unaanimous vote of n-partisan body. f. WEAKENING OF TREATY rhe result is a decided weakening of iVcrsalllea treaty and many of the tin "who voted for Poincare ane sic iheart that this question ever was eed and wish that Polncare had unilted his supporters before prccip-tlng prccip-tlng the matter Some angrily de-xe de-xe that ho precipitated the affair tho eve of the adjournment of tho ench chamber .In order to achieve personal victory A few express ileal satisfaction that Vh ianl glory 'eloquent speech against Polncare's Ires. In fact for a moment the dc-Ke dc-Ke looked like for a frec-foi-all, with Hry ambitious politician attempting make what political capital he Sid by supporting the sido that was Wb to got an overwhelming majority. But if this debate provokes a gen-b gen-b demand for an Impartial judicial jeatlgatlon.lnto the. origin of the war Wk 'results in a verdict that the world Caccopt as fair and unbiased, then Brill sol have been In vain, while if Bfvcrdict is in favor of the thesis Jiptcd at Versailles tho result can !ly, be to strengthen the treaty's au- |