Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 18

What Europe Is Saying About America FRANCE.—1. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE PARIS, August 12 When t wrtier previously arrived in Pa was in the triumphal train of Wood- row Wilson. It was on that immortal 14th of December, 1918, when France, and especially Paris. threw them- sclves at the American DPresident's feet and welcom him the Mes- | siah who had crossed the Atlantie tol pilot Europe inte a new No Rreeting in history was ever more tumultuous Every ounce of Latin ment and capacity for demon- found exuberant expression frenzied cheers of the Paris multitude were mingled gratitude and hope—gratitude for the victc us military effort of the United ates and confident hope that Woodrow Wikson and his people would see that| the peace France had so rly bought would be safeguarded for her. Paris shrieked itself hourse that joy- ous day and night. and sang and danced and drank and jubilated gen- erally, because it saw in America the omnipotent guarantor of French as-| pirations in peace, as it gladly recog- | nized in her the rescuer of French | fortunes in war. Thal was six years ago. Today would tell a zadder story. If the United States were the Avenue the Place de la Co vards this summer, there palisades of frantic thou ing him along & Via There might be crowd emotions would be the of curiosity rather than enthusiasin. Their de-| meanor would be that of respect and | ecuriosity, no doubt, for the French| are still a knightly. even if a disen- | chanted people, and po < has not ceased to be ng their cardinal virtues. But there would t a con-| spicuous lack of pa ate warmth or any real semblance of affection in the greeting they might accord to our | Chief Executive Their' disillusion- ment since the peace conferenc as been too complete and too disheart- ening to permit them to shriek Vive YAmerique with anything r otely savoring of the fervor with which they greeted President Wilson era different and President of the | would be no | nds cheer- | Triumphalis. | but their Lose Dreams‘of Idenlixts. France, in December, 1818, envis- aged Uncle Sam as the world's su- preme idealist. France, in 1924, is re- Tuctantly and regretfully inclined to look upon that bewhiskered old g tleman as a stony-hearted money lender, with little else than a money lender's interest in the world's affairs that lie outside of his bulging bags of gold. Within a few days of the time this dispatch is wr France has had what she considers a classic ex- ample of our money lender point of view. The American bankers, sup- ported by Secretary Hughes, have in- sisted that if the United States is to sontribute half of the Dawes-plan | $200,000,000 loan to Germany, France must be deprived of the right to take independent action in her own est, in case of a Ge rrying out the Dawes reparations scheme. Security for herself. hut none for France—that is what France reads into America’s ultimatum on the loan proposition 1t is not pleasant things. It is particularly able for a whole-hearted sympathizer with France to do so, especiaily at a moment when delightful hospitality Is being showered upon large num- | bers of representative Americans in France. Following their in London, both the Association and the American tising delegation came to Paris took the lawyers, as the publicity experts, to her bosom with a heartiness that left nothing to be desired. There was no whisper of debt cancellation, or any talk about our desertion of Europe or any con- troversial discussion of any kind. A pleasant time, in fact, was had by all. Nor is there in the official relations of the two countries the slight suggestion of a strain Myron T. Herrick continues to be the most be- loved foreign ambassador in Paris. His courage and his devotion to the | use of France in the dark hours of | 1914 are unquenchable memories in | the hearts of the French people. Sec- retary Hughes. in hi with Premier Herr »th in London and Paris, and with of the French | leaders in Paris, was the recipient of unfailing and punctilious courtesy Yiven his recent London speech, with its warning to France not to endan- ger the security of eventual Ameri- can investments in Germany under the Dawes plan. did not damp the ardor of his official welcome in Paris. record these American Bar ver- ance well as s contacts Only External Views. But all of these thinds are exter- malities. They are the proprieties and niceties that prevail in the relations between nations and governments. They do not get down to the bed- rock of those relations. To reach that stratum one has to dig. These impressions of the French state of mind about the United States are the result of a persistent and sincere ef- fort to get to that bottom. where facts abound. They can he discovered | easily by any one who looks for them. | The plain and fundamental fact in | the situation is that the French think | we quit our job in Europe before it| was finished. ~ Around that simple as- | sertion ranges the whole cycle of their complaints about America. Very few Frenchmen ascribe to our own | theory that we “saved France.” Their | theory is that they saved themselves: that the war with Germany was our war just as much as it was theirs, and that we only “came in” two vears and a half after they had been fight- ing our battles for us. Having “come | the celebrated tripartite treaty of de- | fense in case of a new German ag- through | festivities | in” tardily. as they contend we did, the r with hav our window! District Oakland Co. DISTRIBUTORS Wholesale and Retail 1709 L St. N.W. Main 7612 IR E LR T Next “Sealed Order” Under Sealed Orders for a whole week —not knowing what adventure the next day will bring—the True Blue Oakland will show its high character to millions all over America. A different “Sealed Order” opened every day. See them in quit prematurely. They do not mean in a military sense. of course, for everybody understands that Persh- ing's unspent Army was ready and eager to go on, and would have done so with irresistible fury if Foch had not assented to the armistice. What the Irench mean when they accuse us of leaving Burope before the war job was finished i€ that we repudiated the peace treaty which they say we main wrote, and then washed our hands as completely of the whole! Kuropean mess & if we had never had the tip of a finger in it. That was not our only act of repudiation. Wilson and Lloyd George between them argued Clemenceau and Foch out of their insistence upon a Rhine frontier for France by offering them gression. Then the United States re- fused to ratify the defense pact, and, as Great Britain's adhesion was spe- cifically dependent upon that of the United States, France woke up one sad morning in 1919 to find herself without either a Rhine frontier or defensive alliance with the United ates and Britain. Every school- child in France knows this disheart- ening story. Over and over again s discussed in terms of bitterness in every French home between the Pyrences and the Alps. It has become almost a religion of rancor. The Separate Peace. What was the next aspect of Amer- ican peace procedure to confront France? A new administration was now in power at Washington. One its earliest steps was to sign a rate peace with Germany, where- ¢ the United States reserved to itself advantage that accrued to it T the treaty of Versailles, which it signed but refused to ratify. Then, more or 1 simultaneously, _the United States withdrew from the Rep- arations Commiksion, the body set up by the peacc trea enforcing its fulfillment by Germany. These successive acts by America would have enough Ly themselves, in French estimation, but the political effect of them in Eu- rope, France insists, was far graver. The direct result, you are told in P7aris on every hand, was that Germany forthwith embarked upon a policy deflance and evasion that pers to this day. Frenchmen do not as- sail us as the sole architects of their woes in Kurope, or even as the chief architects. They long since cast Mr. Lloyd George and the British for the roles of the chief devi But they are in no doubt that Perfidious Al- bion's old balance-of-power policy of “protectin Germany against & stronger France would have been frustrated if America had remained Surope With their f; of ank appreciation of our HE Panama Canal represents an invest- ment of more than 7 million dollars a mile. The service to be rendered rather than cost of construction was the governing factor. With engineering pre- cision, Hearst’s Interna- tional aims to make every copy—like every mile of the Panama Canal—a really great achievement, regardless of cost. Huge financial resources give you feature upon feature. ¢ for the purpose of | THE EVENING power and influence, the French are blindly certain that if America had continued to sit loyally in peace coun- cils with her war comrades, retaining full-fledged membership in the Repa- rations Commission instead of the nén- commiting roll of an unofficial ob- server, and generally thrown her weight into allied scales—if the Unit- ed States had done these things, France is confident that Europe today would not present the aspect of chaos and hopelessness into whieh it has drifted. Would Sme for Desertion. That, in a nutshell, {s the French case against America. If La Belle France could hale Uncle Sam into the Paris divorce court, now so popular with incompatible Americans, she would sue him on the grounds of de- sertion. The specific allegations she would level against him are those just enumerated. There are others, but the major indictment is compre hended by those above set forth. Be cause Great Britain has “played Ger- many’s game,” and because America has ~ basely deserted Europe, the French view is that the war, though bloodlessly, is still going on. No Big Berthas are shelling Paris, or German bombing™ planes raining destruction from aloft, or Frenchmen battling in the trenches before Verdun. War in a combatant sense has ceased, but your typical Frenchman considers himself still faced by a revengeful foe—by an | unrepentant, quibbling, defaulting Germany, defiantly determined to es- ape her obligations. He blames Amer- fca, along with Britain, for the pro- longation of that paralyzing state of affairs. His complaint carries with it an undisguised tribute to our power and authority as an international ar- biter. He ix persuaded that America has but to nod, or frown, to bring re- calcitrant Germany to terms, and the Frenchman is bitterly disappointe that since 1919 we have not brought ourselves to make such Jovelike ges- tures. He wonders what has become of the Lafayette spirit, and whether the memories of Rochambeau and De Grasse are potent only us themes for Fourth of July speeches at American | Chamber of Commerce dinners in | Paris. War Debt a Sore Spot. If France is distressed—she is in reality little less than exasperated— over our invincible aloofness from post-war problems, her emotion over | another matter is even more vehe- ment. That is the matter of the $3.500,000.000 she owes us for war loans. France not publicly vehe- | ment on that delicate subject. It is | handled with kid gloves in the new: %llllllllllllIMIHmIlI"IlIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIHIl'lmllllllllIIIIIIII!IIII!I|IIlIlIlIIIlllmIIIIIIIIIIHIIII|IIII!I||' Closing Out Summer-Weig STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C;, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 192%. papers and by the politicians, except when somebody by accident or in temper blurts out his real fcelings. Now and then you encounter a Frenchman who asserts with pa- triotic fervor that France, owing the money, intends to pay it—some day— it a generous refunding scheme is worked out. But you encounter many more Frenchmen who, though they may not think it aloud, are per- suaded that the debt ought not to be paid at all, either in part or in whole and who do not remotely imagine that it ever will be. Men of the class of M. Herriot and M. Poincare and other statesmen of their stature, do not subscribe to thix doctrine of re- pudiation. It is certain that M. Jus- serand, the veteran French Ambass dor to the United States, who is now in Paris reacquainting himself with French public sentiment, does not sanction such a thought. But Vox Pop- uli has little or no moral scruples whatéver about the American debt, or the mountain of unpaid interest that is accumulating upon it from day to day. The plain people of France, if they could be polled, would be found arguing somewhat along these lines: “Francs, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and the rest of us put our lives in the great war pool. America put in her money. We have not got ot s lives back and shall not get back. Why should America expect to get her money back?" Reaxons for Non-Payment. The Krench advance this plea with that shrug of the shoulders and out- stretched arms and palms that consti- tute their inimitable national gesture. They do %o in the spirit of men and women who submit an unanswerable argument. It would be easy to refute their reasoning. but that is purpose of these impressions aim at nothing but the fra tation of the French view has been stated with accur when it is added that another reason why the French think they ought not to expected to pay America is that Ge ny has not paid France. The ] " X ] [ presen hat view e THAYE PRODUCER OF THE BEST PRINTING “*Small Work Exclusively'* main 1816 OO r12n "":J HOWARD S. FISK, MaNAGER R| ht PURITAN YARN 19¢ 1-Ounce Balls, 2 Fold, Puritan fiber-and-wool yarn, a full assortment of colors. 11c in Fashions of Distinction then. | not the | which | T French make the same retort to Great Britain, to which they owe more than they owe America; and, of course, be- sides the Germans, who have paid them nothing, there are the Russians, the Itallans, the Belgians, the Ru- manians, the Poles and other allies who were financially accommodated in Paris and to date have not liquidated. Like the British, the French think there ought to be a ‘round-table” set- tlement of war debts. What they, in blunt Anglo-Saxon, mean is that there ought to be an all.around cancellation, with gold-burdened America taking the lead in the noble process of wiping the slate clean. It would be impossible to exaggerate the depth of French popular feeling about the debt, though it is not publicly articulate. It has eaten into the national soul. Even though we are not pressing France for pcyment the knowledge that we may some day do 80 oppresses her, and the KFrench pater- familias gnashes his testh over even the remote prospect of the higher taxes he may then have to pay. The French finance minister who emulates Mr. Bald- win and squares accounts with Amer- lar, primarily responsible for the cheap- ness of the franc. They consider us, in consequence, largely responsible for their high cost of living. They have: de- luded themselves into the obsession that our Mount Everest of gold is somehow responsible for the depreciated exchange conditions that militate 8o seriously against French commerce and finance. When the Morgans last Spring loaned France $100,000,000 to check the de- scent of the franc there was a lull in the criticism of America. but it still takes nearly 20 francs to buy a dollar, and French emotions are in a corre’ sponding state of desolation. These, lamentations resound _through France despite the fact that prosperity | prevails. The times are good. There is no unemployment. Every factory chim- ney is belching, every foundry throbbing. Yot it by some colossal, eweeping act of generosity or commercial ente prize— the KFrench don't much care which Uncle Sam would only “release his gold™ the average citizen of this fair land is convinced -that his economic troubles would be over for eternity. Also he is ica—on almost any terms—will have to ride a cyclonic storm of public resent- ment. Blame Much on America Our refusal to play Santa Claus anent the war debts, coupled with our disin- clination to co-operate more actively in the “Kuropean settlement.” is blamed by the ¥rench for a host of their purely domestic woes. They hold the United States, land of the truly almighty dol- UNDER UNITED STATES I GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Specialized Service to /| Army, Navy and Civilian Depositors Industrial Loans Checking Accounts 49, Savings Accounts Banking Hours: 8:30 to 5 P.M. THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvas Ave. N.W. —presents $2.50 Round Trip, $2.50 | EXCURSION | T | Endless Caverns | ‘Wonderful and Spectacular Sunday, August 17, 1924 Some of the many attrac- tions to be seen in the End- less Caverns: The Mitten Room, the Grand Canyon, the Alpine Pass, Yosemite Valley Solomon’s Temple. 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Table Oilcloth, 29c Yard Five-quarter white and fancy table oilcloth in white and fancy patterns.—Third Floor. Shelf Oilcloth, 7c Yard Scalloped shelf oilcloth in a number of neat patterns.—Third Floor. Window Shades, 69c Seconds of $1.25 Duplex win- dow shades, white on one sjde and green on the other. Faults are very slight.—Third Floor. AUGUST BLANKET SALE . The annual thrift event grows as it goes. Hundereds of good blankets and comforts of al grades and weights, marked at prices to make carly buying a wise investment. Laid aeide on deposit.—Third Floor. for less than choose from 72x90 sizes. even thread cotton, with wide mer- convinced, like almost all Europeans, that unless we do “release” our gold it will be the ruination of America and Iurope alike. (Copyright, 1924.) Copper King's Son Weds. HOUGHTON, Mich., August 13— Carlos Ryan of New York, son of John D. 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