Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 11

COMMUNISTS CAMPAIGN IN Question Whether Voter Can Be Made to Think Befc tion, Says Tardieu. PATTERN SOVIET Yenin Failure No Lesson to Un- bridled Crowds. Declared. BY ANDRE TAR B Radio ta The Star. PARIS, April 26.—The most strik- t1g feature of the po just opened dible campaign of the party, and the unbri'led crowds which it assem suburban cente The Commun known to require expla he French C\ B election 1i " tion of th plied in shop coun; At counci ment a An admirable situtalon is provided i not far from Paris, wh,. represents in the chan ties. For the coming Communists have done honor to nominate as the man whom they cor % of the third interna*® Marty, one of the neers, This former officer tempted to deliver tw th the destroyer upos serving. Before o admitted that he « His lawyer pleas reredity, as thel family.” " After prison, he becs Thers lLa chamber ¢ 3 elected mary times aithough = was them. In July, 19 government xranted hoping that by his ha'o of ma dor kim less turned out otherwise. "is sinister person down the conntry repe which is one oni apr and assassimation, new Communist gro orkers and Peasants ea is to send to the ¢ “h h sTdom in France is doctrine is too well on; wh » various offices, removing from him troublesome STIR FRANCE ore Elec- DISASTER BY MAXSMILIAN HARDE: By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, April 26.—In November. 1918, Germany relieved its momarchs —almost two dozen crowned heads —of the duty of liquidating thie war which they had carried on. ‘These monarchs ‘and their followers) ever since have blamed the republie for DIET. on here. in their » i \l Germany’s woes, and spres litical battle | notion that the revolution” wa whas the formi- nrevented a final victory and me C s ated acceptance of “the despfcable fur yersailles treaty,’ which no king or nbi er would have signed, » same tactics now are being u 1 in the election campaigm The anati present government, instead of leav- t in archists and naiion: t to control the next parliament responsibility for 3.ccept- ,ing or rejecting the Dawes report s- § which the saves them that em- g ¢ accepting it in ad- { vance. Wilhelm should have been kept on illustrstion of the| the throne until the VersnilWs treaty the region, | h the writer ser of depu lections, th e wri er the 2is opponent ider the hero signed, and Ludendorfl's disciples | ©ought now to be obliged to ashare the asponsibility of this new decision. Bat neither in 1918 nor in 1924 were surlous resistance. They appreciate thwe advantages of abstemiion. They comtent themselves withr calling the awes report “a second Versaille | and notify the government, which has no parliamentary majority, and can in 18 — > o Bolshevists| French electors will talte the trouble o read Lenin. For in Lenin's will, published three months 2go, one finds the frank ad- does not believe that that this policy has contess siblo for vears to osne meanwhile “there is no for but state capital! nothing to do with comumuni In other words, tBe Communists propose for France a regime which Lenin admits failed in Russia, But_the crowds do not think. so far. What they applasml in the Com- munist speethes is, first, the old arraignment of capitalism and bour- geols society, and, second, the fact that they renresent the most extreme opposition te present policies. But raignment of capitafism is indulged by all so-called revolutionary even in the mildest Socialists, the Cammunists are now bit- terly attackine. What chiefly churacterizes com- Lenin and munist. s in the bie nif im amnesty, it would ren- It go chamber m labo Little Likelihood of Upset of Acceptance in Event of Monarchist-Nationalist Victory in General Elections, Says Harden. whole world accapts as | e the monarchists so stuphd as to offer| Communists | | be forcea into THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, APRIL 27, 1924—PART 1. German Roar Against Dawes Plan Is Called Mere “Cunning Demagogy” only earry on routine business, that they will not be bound by any agree- ments signed now. “This is cunning demagogy. Stmply because German industry needs capi- tal, any government. even a national- ist government, must accept this re- port. But they proclaim to the publie, “we are the only ones who neither ratified the first nor the sec- ond Versailles, and we alone can save | you from debt and sla Thus their prestige increases, although they have lost their only leader of modern economic education, the cold and sterile, but intelligent Helfferich, who was director of the bank and ancellor, and who hunted the spotted republican min- | T to death, and now has | his life in a ity with raflway accident. Would Postpone Decixion. i Under_ these circumstances, one | must wish, with Premier Poincare, that the final decision might be post- poned until the new parliament, in which the monarchists will be stronger, had accepted the laws necessary for carrying out the terms | of the report, and thus proved it will | uphold & rea e polic s a question of reparation Ge 1t s le (for it still remains true tha many can pay only from the ds of greatly increas &, would guarantee the pe and perhaps of the ble time. i chen.” ' who, despite | port Aorid, | efitism, are like the of Israel in regarding their atriots as the chosen must at last be forced to prova what -y ure willing and able to do. the coming elections they ' defensive position Nationalists. 5 o-tenths of its strength proving it is no less patriotic than Luden- | dorff’s disciples, but that it conside a war of revenge hopeless becaus Germany is helpless and militarily weak, while France is strong and flankéd by allies. But this is not sufficient to prevent a demagogic offensive which secretly nourishes a belief in some secret chemico-tecl nical means of warfare, and proclam: “victory, despite hell and the devil But Germany must make her w to regencration with the weapons of the mind, and must repair the damage done by kaiserrecht to the limit of peopie, | France, and LLOYD GEORGE MOVE TO COME BACK SEEN Parliament to Open Under Stormy Skies Threatening Mac- Donald Ministry. GARDINER HITS POINCARE Sees Big Problem in Recent Irish Parley Break. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, April 26.—Parliament re- »mbles Tuesday after the Easter vacation under a sky thick with storm clouds. Three main troubles threaten the fu- ture of Premier MacDonald. The first {is the breaking of the storm be!ween‘ i and Labor. Liberal sup- | the Liberals put Premier MacDonald into power and has kept him there. But the attitude of Labor toward the Lib- erals, both n parliament and out, has becn one of undisguised enmity. Labor is carrying on the war against the Liberals {n the constituencles with redoubled intensity. Feeling in the Liberal party has reached the breaking point, and this week David Ll George seized the opportunity to forc a crisis by delivering two bitter public attacks on the premier in terms delib- { erately caleulated tp make a unavoidable. Liberais Deplore Speech. The more responsible elements among the Liberals deplore this at- tempt to force a final breach. It was made in the absence of H. H. Asquith, the Liberal leader, who is in southern the writer has 50od rea- sons 16 know that he looks with dis- favor on this infuriated retaliation ficult to see how ched up. Although toward the current of party s jous to_avold & give Premier MacDonald an opportunity to fmpose a more civil atti- tude on his followers. But Mr. Lloyd George's fierce personal attacks would now put the premier in the position of surrendering to public humiliation. The writer's view Is that Mr. Lloyd George is aiming to carry as many Liberals as possible over to a center party and revive the old Lloyd George- churchill-Birkenhead alliance. Under the ent government is extremely doubt- ful, and already the Conservative: are issuing warnings that a new clec- tion is imminent port unequivocally, but M. Poincare is as obdurate as ever, and treats the report as though it had no more au- thority than the recommendations of & parish council This attitude creates profound dis- appointment here, especially in view of President Coolidge's undertaking to summon a new disarmament con- ference if the scheme goes through. This offer was most cordially wel- comed here, but the comments in the Paris press ure extremely contemp- tuous and add to the conviction that M. Poincare has no intention of al- lowing the Dawes report to become effective. The weaknes: ment at this | ve circumstance Igium and Ital 1 of the British govern- moment is a With England, i mobilized behind the report, and with Ameriea in moral | |agreemeni, Franco's hostility might be overcome, ith a_ministerial crisis imminent In England, the pros- pects are much less favoral The third difficulty which confronts the government is Ireland. The boundary conference called together | at Downing street on Tuesday to | reach a decision with regard to dis- | puted territory brok: prospect of agreement. lin dispute embraces manugh and Tyron counties form a part of both are about equally d tween Protestants and Cathols |the Irish treaty pro | migsion to arbitratc on a fair settle- | | ment | The pos | auite unyl m n of Ulster, however, was | ding, and in the critical condition of things in the Free State denial of any satisfaction on_this subject threatens to make Presi- dent Cosgrave's position harder and | strengthen the républican movement, . though diminished by his wise | is not suppressed. | The failurc of the conference is the threatening circumstance, and the British government will be com- | pelled to take action to glve effect to | {its own treaty with the Free St | Biack Beauty Bicycles Pays | 1-; F For One The bike they A Week Guaranteed for 5 years. | circumetaances, continuance of the pres- | ]| LENAWEE BICYCLES 1 in beautifa complete JUDGE W. 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Chancellor of the B den will introduce workers and is p am meets tough oppo- sition among the millions of i prietors in France who ti fields and have learned s a moral duty. f has not yet come to this conclusion, then open domination by the militarists would be preferable nother parliament of cowacil , wealk, untruthful comprom would be scarcely e dangerous than even the hasty de cision of November. 1915, to relicve the German monarchists of the tragic | liquidation of the war. (Copyright, 1924.) munism _today is its extremeism. Having got rid of the milder mem- rs by sucoessive party splits, it their | now represents something truly ferocious. very Communist meet- ing one b talk of driving capital- with grenades and machine S{zuns. And that kind of talk, as {everyhody knaws, is what the mob {likes to hear, ! 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