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THE EDITORS OF THE OUTLOOK LLOYD GEORGE'S MESSAGE 'N his last speech before leaving I Canada and in his first speech after re-entering the United States Lloyd George hammered hard at the message he has for America. In the former speech, at Winnipeg, he said: "Even the fact of the existence of these two great nations is in some degree a guaranty of stability in the world." In the latter, at Minneapolis, he exclaimed: "Come at your own time, in your own way, but help us make peace. Until this great land casts its influence in the scales for peace I despair of the future." Another striking utterance in the Minneapolis address was called out by the remark of the chairman to the effect that we were doing our best to forget the war. "Don't forget," exclaimed Lloyd George; "there is nothing for you to forget-nothing. There is something for you to be proud of. You came for naught but at the call of a great purpose and a great ideal. It ought to be your pride." This is sound doctrine, but is applicable to others as well as to Americans. At this time of concern in England for the revival of trade, we wonder if it might not be appropriate for an American, or perhaps better a Frenchman, to go to Great Britain and give Lloyd George's eloquent advice to Lloyd George's own country men. A NEW FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE V ICTORY has again perched on the banners of France. She has won what well may be called the Battle of the Ruhr. It is as decisive as the first battle that France fought on the Marne, and she has won it with about the same help. This time there has been no sound of artillery, no massing of troops; but it has been a victory as definite as if it had come in the midst of the whining of shells and the infernal crash of high explosives. As at the Marne, the Germans have had to acknowledge the superior skill of the French. Everywhere, even among the detractors of France, this victory is recognized. Perhaps the sign of it which those most hostile to French power have had to recognize as most OCTOBER 24, 1923 convincing is the rise of the value of the franc. If there is any fear, it is that the franc will rise too rapidly. and that will be a misfortune only secondary to a too rapid fall in value. Impressed by the result of French policy in the Ruhr, the British Government recognizes that, if it is going to get any trade with Germany, it must now take France into consideration. France, Britain, and Italy have agreed to Belgium's suggestion of a common discussion of German reparations on the basis of the Belgian proposal of last June. The Belgian plan has been before the Reparation Commission for some time. It is reported that Belgium is not as uncompromising in her attitude. toward Germany as France is. The French are inclined to believe that Germany will never acquire the will to pay for the damage she did until she has suffered more than she has suffered thus far. The Belgians, on the other hand, are afraid that further suffering in Germany will extend beyond Germany's borders. There is a great deal of discrepancy between accounts of conditions in Germany at present. Pitiful stories of hardship come from some witnesses, while from others comes testimony of Germany's essential economic strength. President Hibben, of Princeton, who visited Germany during the past summer, reports evidence of great industrial activity and prosperity there. The general impression that "the topsyturvy condition of the finances of Germany indicates a reduction of the people to the lowest state of woe" is, according to Dr. Hibben, "not at all true." Dr. Hibben sees trouble ahead, which will bring new duties to America, but, in his opinion, that trouble is not due at all to the Ruhr invasion, for, he says, "if France had not invaded the Ruhr, the present relations between France and Germany would still remain unsettled and a source of constant irritation and of possible future war." The German Reichstag has given to the Stresemann Government the powers of virtual dictatorship. But while the Government dictates political policies, the industrialists like Stinnes dictate economic conditions. The attempt of the industrialists to make a bargain with the French seems to have failed. In the meantime the French have made agreements with the German labor unions, and under those agreements wage-earners, by the order of their union officials, have been going back to work. In those agreements are such provisions as that working conditions will be settled by labor organizations without French interference, that German workmen's laws are to be recognized by the French, and that as soon as the miners return to work French sentries and other signs of military occupation will be withdrawn, but that all workers who have remained to work under the French will have French protection-presumably by civil means. The French victory on the Marne did not mean the end of the conflict, and this French victory in the Ruhr does not mean that the contest will not continue. There seems, however, as little doubt now of the defeat of the German aims as there was when the German troops in September, 1914, were thrown back to the Aisne. PREMIERS IN COUNCIL Mister Great Britain, in his R. ASQUITH, former Prime Minof very plain-spoken and illuminating recent articles on "The Genesis of the War" gave an animating description of the meeting in war time of the Premiers of the British Dominions with the home Cabinet. They were told everything; they were taken into the utmost secret confidence of the English Ministry; thereby they felt themselves made a part of the war enterprise, and returned home to stimulate and encourage their own peoples to "carry on" with the rest of the Empire. From the beginning these councils of Premiers have been practical, positive, productive things. We only wish that our conferences of Governors of the States resembled them more closely than they do. Two conferences are going on as we write. One deals with Empire economics; the other with the defense of what is coming more and more to be called the British Commonwealth of Nations. These are far from being non-controversial topics, or such as easily result in good |