Mr. Snowden Protests
4x2 THE COMMONWEAL August 28, I929 Against France the British case is, we believe, rather weak. Though Paris has harped too strongly upon its fate as "the victim of German aggression,"...
...Snowden's own opinion about his job...
...The Paris writers have all stressed the importance of making this evacuation depend upon acceptance of the Young plan...
...And it may well be that the British statesmen are working overtime to arrange this satisfactorily...
...She has been accused of going to the Methodist Church in her r61e as an official spokesman of the Republican party and asking this Church to enter partizan politics...
...Naturally it is absurd to take that gentleman to task, as some have done, for breaking a piece off the "indivisible whole" of the Young plan...
...Willebrandt take no pride in the incident...
...That agreement might have been a unit if it had achieved a definitive settlement of the entire reparations problem, including the sums due the United States...
...It was requested by the Republican National Committee, and even approved (she declares) by the Honorable James Francis Burke, G.O.P...
...One can only say that the fruits of Briand's unification policy are in a measure discernible already, and that if he had the idea more fully developed at present his position with reference to the British would be much stronger...
...4x2 THE COMMONWEAL August 28, I929 Against France the British case is, we believe, rather weak...
...TEXTILE milling has received few smiles from Dame Fortune anywhere recently, but the closing of the factories in Lancashire, England, Arbitration was a particularly heavy blow to a country already beset with staggering in Lancashire unemployment problems...
...What miseries have resulted from failure to observe that rayon was taking the place of denim l The British hope to establish a measure of "co6perative democ...
...Burke replied with a sweeping denial of the charges, making the specific point that "it is needless to say that had Mrs...
...Both he and Mrs...
...Snowden...
...The speech or Not became famous primarily because it informed the assembled ministers that the 600,000 Methodists in Ohio were "enough to swing the election...
...Was it just simply the outcome of "party psychology," reckoning all means fair which guaranteed results, or was it a definite group of leaders who can be listed according to the letters of the alphabet...
...Is part of the Pan-Europa scheme once propounded by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi actually coming true...
...You may guess still again and say that British Labor is opposed to "international capitalism" and to a bank subject to no government control...
...Willebrandt asserts that she had not relished making that speech...
...This it reapportioned on a basis with which Great Britain is not satisfied, and then proceeded to enumerate hypothetical other sums which might eventually be secured...
...In all likelihood it will be found that, as in various portions of our own New England, equipment is antiquated and the product out of step with the times...
...Willebrandt or any other person submitted to me a speech attacking my own religion, I would have resented and repudiated it...
...There the matter must rest, for the present...
...To us it seems that whether or not the address was O K'd by Mr...
...It may in part be attributable to Mr...
...This eagerness may, in part, have been dictated by domestic British politics...
...But in reality it merely constituted a step--though a very significant onemtoward such a settlement...
...He was certainly not responsible for the move, and probably could not have stopped it anyhow...
...Nor can one easily believe they will consent while postponement of the Rhineland evacuation remains with them like a lucky number in a lottery...
...Mabel Walker Willebrandt in her current series of articles has made a noise comparable to that which attended the news regarding her adBelieve It dress to the Springfield, Ohio, Methodist Conference last fall...
...counsel...
...What astonishes everybody is the MacDonald government's very early eagerness to debate the terms...
...The fact remains that Britain is profoundly ill at ease over its international economic status...
...It seems a little unfair to suggest that the French should now cede any large portion of the moneys which Germany will definitely pay...
...It fixed a sum within reason for Germany to pay...
...No doubt frank acceptance of the Young plan is a necessary preliminary to any such larger agreement...
...Mrs...
...Burke is scarcely a matter of importance...
...They do so most intelligently...
...The plan has therefore always been an "estimate" rather than a contract...
...England succeeded in having the German navy scrapped, in getting the lion's share of the imperial colonies, in guaranteeing the integrity of Belgium, and in cleansing the Mediterranean as well as the near East of Hohenzollern outposts...
...Forthwith the New York World, which remembers the last campaign fairly well, rose to declare: "This is not the point...
...and though "relief funds" administered by the trades unions prevented wholesale starvation, eighteen days of trouble improved the health and the spirits of no one...
...Nearly half a million workers left in protest against an announcement that wages would be reduced a fifth...
...But who did decide to hook up Republicanism with evangelical religion...
...Willebrandt has not been accused of attacking the Catholic Church...
...Though Paris has harped too strongly upon its fate as "the victim of German aggression," there is no doubt regarding either its sufferings or the fragility of its victory...
...Reich statesmen must bargain for the freedom of Cologne, and any halt in the proceedings will, of course, be attributed to Mr...
...WEEK BY WEEK N ONE of the cannon crackers exploded by Mrs...
...A Franco-German agreement which had gone beyond the problems bound up with the war to the practical necessities of the present and future would interlock the continent to an extent which might make the circumstance that England's centre of gravity is really somewhere in the Pacific quite evident...
...Both sides in the controversy having agreed to arbitration, two committees are studying the situation...
Vol. 10 • August 1929 • No. 17
