Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 3

L . TELLS HOW GERMANY AWAITED | . HER OPPORTUNITY | M. Tardien today conti the narration of events le g 1o the war—a logical arruy of Sought Provocations To Break Treaties | With Nations. ! a8 dieu plerces the f hazsy to the cant ry, with a master hand. He tod: ow Germamy opportunity to strike, FRANCE DRAGGED INTO ALGECIRAS in 1905, nor in 1906, nor in 1908, nor in 1911 does she manage to secure a foothold in Morocco: any more than she succeeds in 1908 and 1909 in eliminating Russian influence from the Balkans despite concessions wrung from St. Petersburg. Like- vise, and on each occasion more sig- 3 fails in her master design of destroying the agreements en- tered into without her. Neither the { Franco-Russlan_alliance nor the un- | derstandings of France with Great Britain and Italy are dissolved. They survive Algeciras as well as Agadir. Moreover, beneath the German men- ace certain of the understandings grow and change their character. They are not yet alllances, but they are “already much more than mere scttlements or controversies. During one of Mr. Llovd Succeeding Occasions Bring Failure to Master Design. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. (Captain of the French army. Fremch high commissioner to America, Clemenceau's right Yand at the conference at Versallles.) CHAPTER II GERMANY BIDES HER TIME. Among all the “opportunities” which presented themselves—I bor- row the word from Prince von Bue- Jow—German§ is henceforth on the Jookout for the one which will en- able her to prove her vaunted su- premacy is still intact. By “pressure #nd counter-pressure”—another of Prince von Buelow’s charming phrases e strives to paralyze or undo that s been done without her. Sts the possibility of that common {action which the aggression of 1914 to bring into being three years ater and which had been rendered more possible by the rapprochement between Great Britain and Russia after 1907. Italy does not withdraw from the triple alliance, but, con- stantly abused and overridden on the strength of a treaty which had brought neither guarantees nor promises to her vital interests in the she cherishes plans which the war, 1915, is to bring to a head. T. S. Brought Face to Face. Even the United States itself is brought face to face at the confer- ! e of Algeciras with Germany's in sidious efforts toward political domi- nation, and sides with France against the proposals of Berlin, which Presi- dent_ Roosevelt declares to be ‘“in- acceptable.” Tn 1911 the general failure of Ger- in stake the sum total She will be thrnalu cumstances seem tious when her l;j - speak of war without dec ELEIIRE tholee . plomacy is e °‘f“" ‘% <he |local rebuff in Morocco. The imper retains hope that her ends “l-“hl'é« %ns‘ as n“l"ll"lr achieved by p(bllth 1 maneuve not e only one who is g ermany, the scope and the day she that 5 the heav of whose economic develop- even while ton%f-utin_& to ey sacrific determined to free itself from German tutel and 10 order its own life without looking to Berlin for guid: then, unhesi- 1ating and unswerving, she will with cold calculation complete her prepara- tions and at her own hour hurl her- self, teaders and people of a singl heart, into the “fresh and joyous war. tained the arfan and the | falizn alliances. #he 1s sure of Turs key, where her ambassador is the real ruier; sure of Rumania, where a Hohenzollern i Bulgaria. whose czar believes only in might. Yet despite these form!dable !asmets she perceives, in the Franco- Anglo-Russian _ alignment, which she has strengthened with her own hands, the visible' limitation of her power. On three or four occasions when she has_ raised her voice—and raised it loudly—this groui has answered her, moderate and concil- Tn 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, .these answers had been invari- ably pacific and_composing. But on the one hand France is no longer alone; on the other, Europe is divided into two camps which, however for- midable the German power, might, it necessary, measure their strength. Monument Threatened With Rain William the First's “monumen jwhich the Kaiser has sworn to main- tain, is thus threatened with ruin. On all sides and by all means, the lat- r has sought to shore it up and restore it by diplomacy; everywhere he finds the road to hegemony blocked. Henceforth the die is cast, and cast for war. Three vears are needed to bring to a point of absolute perfec- tion the military machine so care- fully built up and trained since the ctory of 1871; three years to bring and convince the “junior partners"” whose support is indispensable for h an enterprise; three years—as in 1867—to find a favorable opportunity which will make. possible the over- throw in a few weeks, by a few stun- ning blows, of adversaries less well prepared and less well armed; three vears and _Germany. returning to hat one of her princes called the mational industry.” will seek by war to re-establish that power. which peace I not abolished, but had rightly i Where Stood the People? |cold blood by the German government s to find the adversaries of yes- terday and of tomorrow in widely divergent postures. The one, France, profoundly attached to peace, so long as it no lnnsu’ meant servitude, and confid s duration: the other, Germany vsically and spiritually lintent ‘on I have roughly jsketched the political events of forty !years, but the historian is false to his SPECIAL NOTICES. ELECTRIC MACHIN NASH, 403 S st. Plan Unfolds in 1004. The plan unfolds in 1904, when ltus sia, at war with Japan, is condemned 1o inaction in Europe. The surrender af Port Arthur on Janu deals the first blow to Russi r cast; on Februa Kuhimann, the in Moroc olleague with a forr test st the Anglo-French agree- ment of April 8, 1904, though Prince von Buelow. the imperial chancellor, Tiad twice declared the vear before that “he had no objection to make to it as far as Ge concerne: On March Russian armies sustain a_bloody de feat at Mukden: on the 12th of the announces his opening with France. Admiral Todjestvensirs fleet 15 annihilated at Tsousima: on June 12 the menace to ¥rance becomes so acute that the| French government b pting the resignation of M. Delcasse, its min- ister of foreign affairs, acknowledges that Germany has won the first round. For nearly ten years, under varying aspect: we 11 sce the same thing.I Tn 1906 Germiny drags us to Alge- ciras. Because of her Morocean inter- ets? but to furnish a striking demonstration that. the moment she| opPPOS:H the Anglo-French agr ment becom Again in 1908 she tries to pick a quar- Tel with us in Morocco, this time over three deserters from the Foreign Tegioy. This same vear she threatens i ler to detach her from her to accept. 1o, the Austro-Hun- zarian annexation of a-Herze- zovina. In 1911 she d atches a war- &hip to the Moroc st and force VPON us settlem i i creases our freedom of a Cherifian_empire. costs us part of the | French Kongo. 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Yation necessar: Keeps ont rust and decay and lasts for ;,",-“ TOUR years. TLet us apply it. Get estimate. Thone Main 1472 Bond hdz. moN Roofing 1416 F n.w. Plumbing and Gasfmmg ! ICLAD oot 't Quick service and expert workmansh H F. Dove, 132 Thomas st. n.w. Tel. nm.w Tin Roofs—Slag Roofs REPAIRED AND PAINTED. H CLAFLIN FOR EYEGLASSES, Adams Printing —is the sort that makes the frat e tomers come back for . ) HIGH GRADE. BUT NoT HIGH PRICED. obvious as her | on the throne; sure of | TO STRIKE| _ Germany s Dtplomacy Brought Her Only Disappointment. WITH HER SCHEME Call To Arms Decided : On in Cold Blood By Imperialists. task who does not seek beneath the surface for those underlying impuls I which animate national will. Behind the governments directing the moves, where stood the people? The France of 1911, fan of the traditions of the race, hon brave and free, differed some- | What from the France that had known |defeat. To the generation branded This “call to arms” decided upon m disaster another generation Ncceeded which, mot having suffered directly from defeat, sometimes to recognize its causes and i sequences. The “pirit of reveng o often invoked by Germany as excuse for her provocatipn. no longer existed. Had it, in the real sense of the word, ever existed s doubt- ful. A few noble’ minds and brav hearts like Paul Deroulede; a few |momentary outbursts had at certain - {hours given tangible form to thi feeling. But the nation as a whole— whether it be praised or blam thful guard ments as facts have shown. langism, born of inte rather than of great internationa pirations, had been but a brief flash in the pan. The memory of Als: Lorraine lived in our hearts, but how were the lost provinces to be recov ered? Before the Russian alli ! we had been too isolated to challenge the status quo; afterward we we bound to respect it. Ye ed without a si Hope remained one surrendered. But hetween hop: and reality peace endured at first and ; then. accepted, reared a wall j Problem Faced in 1900 { The men of my generation who | reached maturity about 1900 faced this painful problem with the patriot- Ism of resignation. Those amongi them who had closely studied his tory had little belief in the eflicac: of “resignation to_span the mo abyss created by Bismarck be France and Germany. But by far U.S. FACE TO FACE | somebody ogled her,” Bou- | the greater number, allowing them- selves to live with the times, | little heed to the warnings of the! past. The courtesies of the German | emperor in our days of national mourning—the deaths of Carnot and ! MacMahon, the burning of the| charity bazaar—and in the days of our national pride, such as the exhi- | bition of 1900, were not without effect. | German penetration of France, of | which the ever-rising tide of emig I tion was but a minor means, pro- ceeded everywhere with extraor- | dinary thoroughne: Our financiers | | 1 i i | were becoming accustomed to sleep- | ing partnerships in which—as in the Bagdad matter—krench money. fur- nished German direction with a bond capital for which the regular pa ment of dividends was but a very inadequate return. Our socialist hoodwinked by the material and po- litical prosperity of German soclalism. were content after the congress of | Amsterdam to be the minor brethren | | of the Marxist order. Our- con- servatives, to whom fimperial diplo- macy laid assiduous siege in the salons, were not insensible to the fascination of social order as exempli- fied by the German empire. There was infiltration in every stratum of | French society. ! 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