British in
^Deadlock
on Policy
Lloyd George Sees No Agree
ment Among Cabinet Mem
Iters for Action Over
Ruhr Invasion.
Tories in Predicament
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By DAVID I.I.OYD GKORGK.
Unrulnil. Sept, 1.—The pen and ink
joust is to he suspended for a fort
night whilst tile tlgures of British un
employment are leaping upwards.
When the exhausted British knights
have been reinvigornted hy French
waters they will once .more charge
full tilt at the French champion—
at least they will have made up their
minds by then whether they will shiv
er another fountain pen against his
blotting pad. This is the advice pon
derously and pompously tendered
them In/ Inspired articles.
So far the French nation is jubi
lant that 51. Poincare has scored
heavily on points. He is a defter
penman and. moreover, lie does not
delegate his draughtsmanship to a
committee of ministers all holding
irreconcilable views as to how to pro
ceed. when to proceed, and whither
to proceed, and among whom there
Is no agreement except on one point,
—that no one quite knows what ac
tion to propose. Up to this last re.
ply they cherished the vain delusion
that the French could be shelled out
of tlie Ruhr by repronches which vert
both querulous an^l apologetic. Thaf.
is not the way to shift continentai
statesmanship from its purpose.
Tories Must Support French.
The French foreign office is better
informed as to cabinet divisions in
this country than are tlie British
public. It knows that the prime
minister and the foreign secretary
dare nof take measures which will
hamper French action in the Ruhr.
- When tlie Tory (lie-hnrds placed co
operation with France in the fore
-‘ front of their program they honestly
f' meant it. For them It was not a
; mere maneuver to unhorse the c-oali
• tion. They cannot therefore support
an attitude of resistance to trench
pressure on Germany. A refusal to
ioin France in squeezing Germany
is to them a continuation of the evil
l of the coalition they overthrew, with
E the help of Mr. Stanley Baldwin and
j l,ord Curzon. They will not tol
g erate it.
■ That explains the importance of
s British diplomacy in a situation
; which is so critical to our existence
2* is a great commercial people. The
'•abinet can agree on wordy notes.
■' They.are hopelessly divided ns to oe
i tton. They have therefore dispersed
p far and w ide to. search for fortuitous
e guidance hither and thither—some in
jj the tranquility of their Kijglish conn
J try homes, some in the healjiiR
i springs of France, some 1n tlie niisis
l of the Scottish moorlands. Mayhap
one of them will bring home a policy
; acceptable to his colleagues.
4 It is all very humiliating to the
e'lYfphe that raised 10,000.000 men and
spent 10,000,000.000 pounds ef its
treasure to win the war. The net re
s stilt of the voluminous eorrespond
j ence on which our rulers have con
• ' centrated month* of anxious wisdom
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and unwearying hesitancy la that the
allies whom we saved from destruc
tion refuse to move on inch out of
iheir road to secure our friendly com
panionship They are marching reso
lutely in one direction whilst we are
shambling along in another.
Entente at Odds.
We have traveled long distances
from each other since January last,
and we are now altogether out of
sight of the position we held in com
mon when we met the Germans'at
Cannes early last year. The entente
has never been more cordial than it
was then—it has never been more
promising of hopeful partnership for
the peace of the world. We were on
tlie point of securing an amicable and
businesslike arrangement with Ger
many for the payment of reparations
and of conclud'ng an agreement foi
protecting the frontiers of France and
Belgium against the possibility of fu
ture invasion.
From these starting points it was
proposed that Britain, France. Italy
and Belgium should advance together
I to a general settlement of European
problems in the east and west—poli
tical. financial, rnconomic and trans
port. This we had agreed to do and
with tlie unity and good will which
then ^prevailed, could have accom
plished.
But M. Poincare had no use for
tlie dove of peace. He wanted to
fly his falcon. He had trained ifnd
bred it in the French farmyard, and
there it has brought down many a
(domestic bird successfully. When his
chance came he flew it at the wound
ed German eagle. Tt is poor sport,
and somewhnt cruel, but It evidently
gives great joy to Frenchmen of a
sort. The best are ashamed of it,
but their voices are drowned in the
clamor of the unthinking. If the
helpless bird is torn to pieces there
is nothing in that for the French
or Belgian larders.
Quite unintentionally the hawk has
brought down the entente also. It
may not be dead, but tt has made its
last flight. Henceforth international
arrangements will lie on a less exclu
sive basis. France is Irrevocably com
mitted to the exploitation of the Ruhr
by force. That is what pay or stay
means.
Ruhr Policy Impossible.
To that policy the majority in this
country is detydtely opposed. If the
die-hards in the cabinet were by an>
chance to win. and either Mr. Bald
win surrendered or resigned in favor
of a Poincarist administration in this
country, neither he nor any possible
successor could carry the country
along into the Ruhr venture. Some
of those around the prime minister
who have so suddenly assumed pro
French sentiments ns the shortest cut
to higher altitudes than those to
•which they have yet succeeded in
climbing, know full wail that, al
though they may use the die-hards
for their own ends, if they succeeded
in their somewhat sinister purpose
they could not carry out the die-hard
policy.
They are therefore endeavoring to
provide for contingencies by negotiat
ing on their own a fresh understand
ing with France. But British pre
miers are not appointed at Itambouil
let, nor do they draw their authority
from yuai D'Orsa.v. Whatever may
he thought of Mr. Bonar Raw or of
Mr. Stanley Baldwin by political par
tisans, no one suggests that they
derived their promotion from other
than purely British sources.
Soured on Conferences.
But for a fortnight nothing is to
happen—except the spread of unem
ployment in Britain, and of despair
in Germany. At the end of the fort
night will there be a surrejoinder to
M, Foincare's rejoinder? Or will
there be another conference? Both
M. Poincare and the present parlia
mentary regime in Britain came into
power on the cry of "enough of these
eternal conferences. Ret us return to
the good old diplomatic methods that
prevailed before the war”—and they
might add, "which helped to make it
possible.”
Nevertheless. Mr. Bonar Raw's ad
ministration during its short tenure
of six months participated in four
European conferences, and M. Poin
care during his 18 months' official
career has found it necessary to par
ticipate directly in five conferences
and directly and indirectly In eight.
The French press is urging him on
to add another to the record, which al
ready beats that of M. Briand in the
matter of "joyriding.” the contemp
tuous die-hard name for international
conferences during tlie coalition days.
It is a suspicious circumstance that
those who were once resentful and
scornful of conferences should now he
clamoring for one, both here and in
France. The reason is scarcely con
cealed by ardent advocates of-the re
sumption of "picnic diplomacy.” At
the old conferences, so it is con
tended, France was invariably forced
to give way. Now it can, and will,
command the situation.
Britain Holds Mark.
There is a new note of confidence
ringing through French dispatches
and echoed in the French press.
France must get what it wants;
Brllaiii must lake what it is given.
The French share of reparations
must first be assured—debts due to
Britain can come out of what Is left,
it is rather greedy, but characteristic
of the British, that they should ex
pect to be paid what is owing to
them!
With their smug and hypocritical
Puritan temperament aUd outlook
they insist that contract* should be
respected! France, for the sake Of
the entente, will make a concession
eypn to British cupidity and Phar
isaism. It will permit the British em
pire to collect—not the whole of what
is due it, hut a much reduced claim
out of Germany once the French de
mand for reimratlons is cashed, or n*
good as cashed! To me this is a new
France. During my yenr* of discus
sion with French statesmen I never
heard this voice. I had ttfree or four
talks with M. Poincare, and t never
heard hiip speak In tiles* supercilious
tones. Jinpunlty lias developed them
since to tljeir present pitch of
stridency.
French Minimum Terms.
Belgium I* to suggest a meeting of
premier*. When it comes the French
minimum terms are to he rigid and
unequivocal. Here they are:
Frunce must be paid its Irreduci
ble minimum of I'l.ilOO.OOO.OOO
in respect of reporalions, wlmtever
happens to anyone else.
Belgium is also to have its prior
ity of 1100,000,000.
A* Germany cannot raise these
huge sums Immediately, France and
Itclgiuni are to hold the Itulir until
they are paid.
Hints have been thrown out by
more conciliatory French journals
ilial the. French government might
consider an eurlv retirement from the
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Ttuhr if payment of reparations were
made the subject of an international
guarantee. That implies Britain and
America becoming sureties for the
payment of the German indemnity.
As to the rest, France and Bel
gium have no objection, subject to
the above conditions, to Great Bri
tain collectcing £700,000,000, 1. e.,
about 23 per cent of its international
claims, debts and reparations, from
Germany. Hut this muniflcient con
cession is to be made on the distinct
understanding that It foregoes en
tirely the remaining 77 per cent of its
bonds.
The allies and Germany between
them owe Great Britain £3.000,000.000.
Thl French and Belgium governments
are willing thnt Great Britain should
collect £700.000,000 of that amount
from Germany, providing the remain
ing £2,300,000.000 is forever conceled
—and always provided ^ that the
£1,400,000,000 due to France and Bel
gium has been satisfactorily guar
anteed.
Germany Must Recede.
These handsome terms can only
be propounded If Germany first of all
withdraws all passive resistance In
the Ruhr. That is an essential pre
liminary-.
The French government has stated
these teems with such precision and
emphasis, and repeated them with
such undeviating insistence, thaf any
departure from them on the French
side seems impossible. Hope of a
conference rests entirely on confi
dence In a British surrender. There
is a dismal "joyride” In prospect for
the British prime minister and ids
foreign secretary. Is it conceivable
they can contemplate such a capitula
tion? I do not see how the present
government, after all it has said and
written, can so far submit to French
dictation as to make it likely that
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question. It is not yet clear what he
means to do. Perhaps he is feeling
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Contract Made for First
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I.arry T. Finn, who about a year
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returned to Omaha, hae contracted
for a new brick and stucco bungalow
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Mr. Finn's house will be the first
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Another, evidently a woman,
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New Manager Is Named for
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Charles Crtaci.
In ths new location of the Burgess
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Beauty may be getting all the good
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Bedford Johnston Company
Announces Week's Sales
Bedford Johnston company, real
tors, announce the sale of more than
$25,000 worth of real estate in the
last two weeks.
The firm’s list of sales Includes
that of the Kingeboro apartments at
Twenty fifth and Podge streets, to
an Omaha Investor, for $76,000.
Morton Meadows House
Moved to Building Line
This picture shows a house being
moved by George T. Morton.at Forty
third and Poppleton avenue in order
to obtain the uniform building line
for Morton Meadows addition. This
addition was developed by Mr. Mor
ion this year. It lies immediately
west of the Field rlub.
The house was moved hack 30 feet
from the foundation shown on the
left onto a new foundation built by
Morton.
It 1* worth the expense, Mr. Mor
ton said, not to have one house out
of line.
The huildlnk lines in Morton Mead
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