Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 53

dgue May i 2f= (Continued from First Page.) essence sought to establish and for- tify French supremacy on the contl- nent by a system of alllances. There are two other courses open to the French ministry which {s now to take office. It may seek to arrive at an understanding with Great Brit- ain on terms which are possible. It may undertake the even more diffi- cult task of reaching some form of arrangement with Germany. As be- tween the two courses, one might cenfecture that the preference of Her- ot would be for Germany, since the mantle of Caillaux has fallen upon his shoulders, while Briand would, by preference, seek to restore something of the old friendship between Britain and France, But any understanding nition of MacDonald's aspirations for the league of natlons. By contrast, #n understanding with Germany would in the nature of things start With some form of assoclation of the Ruhr and Lorraine iron and coal in- dustries and at some stage, still re. mote, aim at Britain, if only ‘economi- cally ow we have had fairly clearly sketched what MacDonald would like to make of the league. He would not consent to any Franco-British alli- ance. He would not-consent to any treaty of guarantee made directly be- tween France gnd Britain. He would, contrast, aglee that Britain would come to the ald of France, if she were wantonly attacked by Germany—and 1 think he would hardly hesitate, it it were left to him, over an agreement, 1o support Germany in case of & wan- ton French attack. ‘Wants League of Influence. Far beyond all this detail, however, he would like to make of the league a body with real influence. So far only minor questions have been referred to the league. There have been wars since its creation, that between Po- land and Russia and that between Greece and Turkey rising to the dig- ni of considerable conflicts, and the lcague has not been able to act effectively. But there have been even more important disputes between zreat powers, disputes between France and Britain, France and Ger- many, etc., and the league has not been able to intervene, So far, the league, déspite its hand- ling of certain affalrs like those of Upper Sllesta and Memel, has been no more than a sideshow. its best serv jce, perhaps, that of salvaging tria, has been economic rather thas yolftical and without any relation to peace or war. The great problems which still, divide Europe, those of reparations, security, armaments and the like, have been discussed, o far they have been discussed effective- between nations over the green table, not around the Geneva board. The conference of ambassadors, not the council of the league of nations, has been the dominant force in Eu- rope since the Paris conference ad- journed. When there wis no agre: ment in this conference, as was fre- quent, then there was chaos in Eu- vope. In the meantime the league had been dealing with minor ques- tio) ting and operating a ma- chine, which it was hoped by the pro- Teaguers, migh become pos- sessed of sufficient prestige and ex- perience to take over larger and more vital matters Largest Possible Settlement, Of these 1he largest obviously would be that of reparations and se- curity, to take the two together; in other words the greatest thing that could concetvably fall to the lot of the league to administer would be a set- tlement actually reached between Germany, France and Britain, with Belgium and Italy subseribing, this settlement to cover both the matter of German payment to France and some guarantee of peace (n Europ peace between Germany or neighbors phase was might repeat on_an enormously iner: sofar as the matter of se concerned, it might provide influence in any new dispute, it might, for example, decide whether Some new threat to the peace of were Justified or mere aggre Noy MacDonald is v tempt to persuade Europe, % Teality means Frapce and Germany, With Russia in the background, fo consent to the expansion of .the Jeague. He'is bound to seek to pre- Yent the reappearance in Burope of rival systems of alllahces, to one of hich Britain will, in the end be forced to join herself, as she joined herselt to the Franco-Russian com- Wination before the world war. He will begin by insisting that Germany he permitted to join the league and he will seek to persuade her to join, hav- ing persuaded France to consent to the admission of Germany. Has Chance to Succeed. As I sald before, he had small Fhance of great success before Poin- care was béaten. He has a real chance mow of obtaining French ac- quiescence‘up to a certain point. France 18 golng presently to retire grom the Ruhr, and French opposi- tion to German admittance into the Jeague can be assumed to disappear. 3 will watch the British tam- Jiem for e Teague with something Jike benevolent provided ly the expansion of the league does Jot involve the surrender of French Ylaims for reparations, and provided some way be found through the Seague to insure France against a war of revenge. G othing 1s more certaln than that presently we shall see a re- Jiewal of - the old battle between Rritish and French conceptions of tho league, The French will join the Eritish in the effort to rlve llhe jeague authority, but it will insist that with authority goes power, that ihe league shall not only have the mission to decide. but the means to “nforce dectsion. This.was what Leon Jourgeols asked for the league in the days of the Parls conference, When he argued that the league Thould be endowed with a general 'O and a standing army, or at {25t Should be able to draw upon the allled and assoclated powers, be. come members of the league, for the necesary police force. Disarmament Impossible. Falling such force, the league could not, in the French mind and in the minds of continentals gener- ally, function successfully, and there could be no question of disarmament. The league would mot be able to Provide security. to Insure protection to its members, and its members " would ncea;"“w n‘ [flmifi”m W Screna themselves through the medi- e ombining © standing n_of com 2:::?;:0—tmt is, the old question of liances, e French election opens the way jor a discussion which would have been of little significance had Poin- care not been defeated, but unhappl- Iy it does not open the way to Any obvious solution of the matter. ; French people and the new Frenc! overnment are willing and ready to fioten to a new international discus- 80 ara most, if not inental countries.. But this discussion ‘s not of itself of {im- paense promise eg long as there s no modification of the underlying ele- ments in ‘the problems to be dis- cussed. 1f you turn the administration of the reparations problem, as adjusted ®y the Dawes report, over to the Jeague of nations, how are you going 10 make Germany pay up, if she will- fully evades again?- Who is going 1o use force, and how is the force to | Do used? Some nation, one or more wations, must agree to apply the de- Gain Powers ' Through Fall of Poincare cislon of the league, but application may mean war if Germany resists, war not with the league but with the nations of supplying the force to carry out the league's decisions. Then what about disarmament, & proposition dear to the hearts of Mac- Donald and his political assoclates and to the friends of world peace in Britain_and America. Suppose the league brings forward a plan of dis- armament. - Who is to enforce it? Who to make sure that while France is disarming, for example, Germany is not arming, and that when France has disarmed Germany Wwill not at- tack her? Because it must be obvi- ous the French will not scale down their army or tha British scrap their fleet save as they are certain of safety after the operation. Question As te AllL 5 France {s in a mood to listen to Ramsay MacDonald's proposals for a relative considerable expansion of the league of nations. France, after mature reflection and some little ex- periment, remains unconvinced that any system of alliances made with smaller European states is worth as much as a real Anglo-French under- standing. To obtain such an under- standing France {5 prepared to go a considerable distance with Mac- Donald In the matter of the league. If experimenting with the league re- sults in the discovery of something more satisfactory than the aystem of alliances France 15 ready to accept it. b But you must see that always.the same objects will be sought, not by France alone, but by Poland, Bel- glum, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Czecho- slovakia, namely, security in what they posses plus the payment of what they are owed. Now, all are concerned materially with 'repara- tions. but all are with security. Can Mr. MacDonald show these countries through the league a certainty of unchallenged possession? Can he show them {n Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Russia the absence of any immediate or eventual challenge to their possession of a method of protecting this possession against any challenge? ' Or—and this is perhaps the pres- ent question—can the prime minister show them a method by which the league can be expanded without any menace to their present status and with eventual promise for complete security? If there is a settlement between the Germans, the French and the British today It will be made outside the league,” and the Dawes report will be the basis of economic adjustment, while other similar programs will cover territorial and military arrangement. But once these are made, the great problem is to get them under the league of na- tions, to make that assoclation the executor of these agreements, with power to enforce and with equal power to prevent both evasion and unjust exaotions. it would be an_exaggeration, T think, to say that Europe Is in any sense’ converted to the league, but after five years of chaos, it does de- sire a settlement. and ving passed through a period of idealitsm and a later stage of natlonalism, it is be- ginning to re-examine the league, not as new gospel, perhaps, but rather as an available machine. (Copyright, 1924, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) — TAGUS RIVER FLOODS SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Stream Passes Through One of Most Desolate Regions of Europe. While America has had disastrous overflows In the Potomac and Cum- berland Rivers, Spain and Portugal have been suffering a similar fate at the hands of the Tagus, their largest stream. A bulletin from the head- auarters of the National Geographic Society here tells something of this river, which s the Joint possession | of the kingdom and the republic. “The Tagus i3 one of the rivers of the world that is not blessed with smiling, productiive banks through- out most of its course,” says the bul. letin. “It has carved its way through one of the most des te and most thinly peopled parts of Europe, the bare, arld plateau of central Spain. For scores of miles, the Tagus flows through —this semi-desert land of Spain like some American stream in Ttah or Arizona, with not even a hamlet on its banks or an isolated railway bridge to bring to it at in- tervals a touch of the modern world. Through much of its course, there is not even vegetation worthy of note along its banks—merely a few stunt- ed evergreen oaks and some tufts of coarse grass. its course the Tagus flows in & nar- row gorge cut far below the levet of the drab upland plains, with nothing to indicate its situation until one reaches its precipitous banks. There are two exceptions, however. At Aranjuez, thirty miles southeast of Madrid, and at Talavera, seventy-five miles farther down-stream, the con- stricting walls recede and the river flows for a space through fertile val- leys, It is these infrequent valley- oases that furnish practically the only points vilnerable to-floods along the Spanish Tagus. “Toledo is the only town of marked prominence in Spanish history. along the Tagus. Here, at one time, was a city of several hundred thousand inhabitants, when Toledo was the capital of Visigoth Spain. The Tagus was the huge and impassible moat for the old city,” sweeping around three sides of It in a gorge 200 feet deep. On the fourth side were high walls. ‘Wonderful Harbor at Meuth. “Plunging into its deep canyon near Toledo, the Tagus flows between steep walls for most of the remain- der of Its passage through Spanish territory. At Alcantara, mear the western border, it 18 spanned by a sturdy old Roman viaduct, ‘Trajan’s Bridge' that has #tood in efficient simplicity for seventeen centuries. “Eighteen miles after it crosses thé Portuguese border, the Tagus be- comes navigable for the first time, and boats ply upon its Wlie rom that point to its mouth, 115 miles down stream. As though by wav of compensation for its uselessness and solitude during most of its passagé to' the sea, the Tagus forms near mouth, one of the best harb. SXistence, that of n. T Widens 1nto a tidal lake about miles above Lisbon, n«ll n i [l fe T mion Just b SRS FEWER HORSES IN PARIS. 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