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Show I WAY PREPARED FOR NEW WARS j Tardieu Says Fire Is Being Kindled in Balkans HY AN ORE T.VRDIKl Former French High Commissioner to the United state. (Copyright. lf22. bv The Standard-! Examiner, ) PARIS. Oct 14. After another' brief scare due to Tord Cnrzon's sud-den sud-den visit to Paris the Mudanla agreement agree-ment Is signed and delivered. 11 marks another great concession by i the powers to the Turks Whereas tho agreement of September 23 only provided that Thrace would be deilv- , ered to Kemal and his forces following follow-ing signing of a formal peace the armistice allows him within a fort-i night to Install a government, and what Is worse, gendarmerie. It takes a clever mind to dlstin- I guish between the Turkish gendarme nnd a Turkish soldier Both are mas- ! ters at the art of torturing I aris-tlans. aris-tlans. Apparently the return of the Turs arouses no emotion In either England or Frani e In Prance the semiofficial press has BUI BCdod In persuading tho people that we were within an Inch of war. consequently there is rejoicing that It has been averted althpUgn, truth to tell, it never was Imminent .Moreover, the opposition developing in London against Lloyd Qeorge strengthens the Paris legend that Poincare obtained a great trlumpn , o r his British colleague, which is j ridiculous sinc' the French pollr has finished by placing the Dardanelles exclusively under British control. FRENCH GLEEFUL. It is astonishing paradoxlal that French opinion Is gleeful over the return of the Turk to Lurope. That Joy will not last In England I.loyJ George's undoubted blundering has ! made the Near Eastern question a battle ground of parties enabling a j coalition of the opponents of tlu pr I mlor. Tie latter deemed the situation j serious enough to breag the M!ir. si-; It ni S with his Manchester speech and othe rpai ty leaders are taking the platform to debate the merits, of the case. The Christians in l'nrace. even at the straits, are forgotten In the' party fracas. It la not the first time In Knglund and elsewhere that party strife takes priority over national Interest, In-terest, it is impossible to over-estimate the extreme gravity of the events now unfolding. Not alone Is victory cancelled on one of the war's greatest great-est battlefields after only tour years; not only Is It wonderful encouragement encourage-ment for the Pan-Germans and t.ie Pan-Slavs who dream of revenge, b ,t according to the latest agreements WOj now have the same territorial sltua-tlon sltua-tlon which provoked all Balkan warsj whose effect on European policy is only too well known M AN Alt LOOMS When the Turks and Christians, clash In Macedonia war Is Inevitable! and it is rurious that the French pa-j pels Ignore this truth taught by long, 'experience. Added to this is the. Russian danger, for the sovlets, luce I 'the Kcmallsts and Germans, have territory to reconquer to effact the: peace which they have never recog- nled. Tho Paris and Mudanla ' agreements have prepared some far tomorrows for us. American public opinion seems to see further than the Frencli and British. Brit-ish. American newspapers are .'; tuibed by the reflux of Turkish bar-; barism and they are right, but to be perfectly frank I must say the L'nited f States Is largely responsible for the, existing conditions. If the l'n::ed Slates had not quit the game so ab-ruptly ab-ruptly in 1920 and bad accepted the proposed American mandate it COUl I i have exercised a happy Influence in the Levant, restrained the absurd nieglornanla of the Greeks encouraged by the English and curbed Pram e'a pro-Kemalist zeal. For Its own reason! rea-son! the Pnited States preferred to I withdraw from eastern as well as I from western European affairs and the result is deplorable In both places. Thus the perfectly just cntt- , clsm of the American press lose some of their force In general It is going to bo rath r difficult for America to convince Bu-r,.p.- o' l-'-r viewpoint after ud hiring she desires to hav e nothing more Ld j common with Europe Abstention is ; -ua uoiPV uouow jo poquui v mu r.ii risks and whoever refuses rtskS e-annot expect to Influence solutions. With this reservation I heartily agree, with the Amerlenn press that Europe Is committing gross stupidities In th Near East. no |