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Show I ENGLAND MAY CANCEL DEBTS FRENCH OWE iBut France Must Promise to Change Policies Somewhat. By A. G. G RIIM K Britain's Greatest LUnral Ktlltor (Copyright. 182?, by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner ) LONDON, Dec. 2. The visit to London of Promler Polncaro ot E ranee next week brings to a hc.id the enure European situation. Upon it depends Whether there will bo a continuation ot the friendly relationships between France end England. Upon It also will hinge whether the Brussels economic eco-nomic conference can be initiated and Whether it will be possible ol Sliro-Hs When the French premier leaves for Rrance it will have been decided Whether Kuropo Is to face the light r is in i. main in economic darkness. 5nd r the late premier Lldj d Qoorgt, Ifcngljtnd and France drifted far apart ; 'III. Turkish eruption threatened a I complete break between these two , war time allies. France was backing the Turk and England supported dr.-. 1 1 Happily this menace bus b i cleared away. Frame has taken alarm at the a.g-grcslvcness a.g-grcslvcness of the Turks while all England is shocked and horrified over the Greek executions. This has helped ic. restore a common vtewptont con-j r I ncr he X'-enr Knst H 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 D . The result of the recent l ctlon has also helped the situation. The me t-ing t-ing therefore next week between l'oln-earo l'oln-earo and Bonar Law will be In atmosphere at-mosphere from which a Rood deal ot the distrust has been cleared, Of course, the great problem will be to persuade France to take a reasonable attitude toward Germany. Evidences a!r not wanting that this may be arranged. ar-ranged. I Loncheur's speech In the chamber fl of deputies left the Impression that a riew attitude toward th rlent Is bc-fl bc-fl ing shaped in France and the dental from the French embassy at Washlng-fl Washlng-fl ton that occupation of the Ruhr has been ordered also is regarded as a favorable symptom. The opinion prevails h. n that Poln- care will revive his proposal that the I question of revision of reparations be subject to cancellation of the interallied inter-allied debt- This proposal onpinaliy was torpedoed by the Balfour note which made the cancellation of the French debt to Great Britain subject to caneellutlon of the British deb' to the United Slates. Public opinion here Is moving powerfully pow-erfully toward the conviction that reparations rep-arations and debts alike are a vain phantom barring the road t European recovery What Is wanted is peac and reconciliation to be followed by a general trade resumption W Ithout the latter tho profound Industrial depression de-pression in England cannot be removal. remov-al. The new government now la fa with an enormous unemployment problem. There are a quarter of a million workers existing on dole handed out to it. Great railway development de-velopment and other schemes in contemplation con-templation to deal with the situation fire makeshifts unless trade Is r. vl d. Emigration proposals do not meet th .situation. Until peace is restored on the continent and trade channels are reopened, the paralysis of English (commerce must continue MUST DIVERT MIND The success of the Bonar Law government gov-ernment absolutely depends on the ability to divert the French mind Into more reasonable channels. It would be worth a very great sacrifice on thl part of England if she could Induce 'France to drop all political motive.-, that prevent the possibility of German .recovery. Hopes In this direction are improved by tho evident growing understanding un-derstanding in France, that extravagant extrava-gant expectations from Germany arc impossible and a false dream. It should be a condition of the cancellation cancella-tion of the French debts to Britain that disarmament be undertaken honestly hon-estly and that all black troops be removed re-moved from European soil. No real progress can be made in the settlement of the European turmoil until these elemental preliminaries are adopted. Will Franco make an advance on theso lines? Hir attitude toward disarmament dis-armament still seems unyielding. There were some suggestions at Geneva Gen-eva that she might make concessions and she also has assumed a better at-tltudo at-tltudo lately toward the league of nations. na-tions. After 4 0 years of opposition to a moderate home rule proposal a tory government adopts almost without a dissenting: voice, a measure of self government for Ireland that la little short of independence. We anticipate Important results In Ireland from the passage of the measure as it will materially ma-terially strengthen the hand of the executive ex-ecutive In dealing with tho rebel remnant. |