Word: anti-french
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...will advise the King to ask Ramsay MacDonald, Labor leader, to form a Ministry. Mr. MacDonald's policy is sure to be pro-German and anti-French-pro-German to the extent of actively assisting Germany to find her financial feet by peaceable methods; anti-French to the extent of opposing France's "continental policy." He will also be sure to accord immediate de jure recognition to Soviet Russia. Labor circles in London let it be known, however, that no immediate attempt to force capital levy on the country would be made by a Labor Government. Because...
...French press, always on the alert for new manifestations of German guile, " discovered " through the newspaper Liberté that the Germans are disseminating anti-French propaganda among British and American tourists through Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, German guides in Paris. According to Liberte, tourists at Versailles hear tirades against the Treaty of Versailles; tourists on the battlefields hear of the valor of the German troops. Liberté asserts that guides tear up Allied flags in the cemeteries and sell strips as souvenirs. Thus " Papa Poincaré " has another German menace to combat...
...Germany which we had all along feared, but which we had consistently been told to regard as a bogy ... is not merely an ominous political symptom; it has pretentious economic significance, for it means the ultimate disappearance of the debtor himself." The tenor of his speech was distinctly anti-French, a fact which caused Lloyd George's heart to rejoice and M. Poincare's hair to rise in anger. He said that Britain awaited French proposals relative to a common policy to be pursued against Germany, because Britain cannot be ignored on a future settlement of reparations. Concerning...
England today stands at a parting of the ways. After the war she was the most influential nation in Europe, but now France has displaced her, endangering her economic existence. Two roads back to her former supremacy lie open to her; either she may attempt to form an anti-French entente, thus restoring the Balance of power, or she may withdraw as far as possible from the European tangle and entrust herself to her colonies...
...form an effective anti-French entente, would require statesmanship of a calibre nowhere evident in present English politics. The collapse of passive resistance in the Ruhr brought down with it England's hopes for the he-habilitation of Germany and partially vindicated French policy in the eyes of Europe. Italy has dropped her former pro-British sympathies and now seriously threatens England's position in the Mediterranean. Only a master of intrigue could mould these elements into an entente-and Pitt is dead and Lloyd George touring Canada unofficially...