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Year Just Closing Is Most Significant Since Armistice Marked By Iiise of France. By Decline of British Influence. And By Complete Prostration of Germany, Spells Death To Ideal ism That Wilson Sought To Impose on World at Paris Ill nt.WK II. SIMON MS < o|>yright liKSt li> MH'luri* \?*u*|m?|ht S> mli< ale Washington, Doc. :il.?The year wliicii is just closing ha.? Aitvii marked so far as Kuropean affairs are concerned I?y thre closely related major incidonts, namely the rise of France, the dtcline of Britain and the complete prostration of Germany. To complete the tabulation ot great powers one may add thai in the same time Russia has been practically quiescent and isolated, while Italy has given not a few indications of a desir*. to take a more important and profitable role in European councils. The rise of France has been attend ed with many significant rircuin stances. The occupation of the llitur in the first days of January brought abruptly to an end the more or less; Imaginary cooperation between Fiance and Bwttaiu in Kurope ond specifically in the restoration of peace. It supplied decisive proof of the fuct. long, before becoming up puteiit. that British and French fun-, damental interests had become abso lute!) opposed, at least in the minds of tlie state men <>t the respective countries and ot the majorities of( the inhabitants. When France, with Belgian coop eration and Italian assent, moved in to the Hhur. the real chance of a peaceful adjustment of the Franco <}eiman phase of after-war prob-, lerns was practically sitat-iered.' When Germany, mistakenly count ' ing upon British disapprobation of Frtiich policy to rescue her, resort- : ed to passive resistance, she actual-1 iy undertook another war. the conse quences of which were to be for lo r more costly than the great conflict of 1914-18 und for Kurope hardly less serious. By this occupation of the Hhur. however. France at once established licr position as the supreme power on the Continent. In alliance with Belgium. Poland, the Little Kntente. comprising Rumania, i'/.echo-Slova kia and J il go-81 a via; she was, so far a a German questions were concerned, the leader in a group of nations which counted their standing armies at almost 2,000,000 and their popu lation ot more thaln 115.nou-.oao. All these states \*cre moreover united by a common interest and ;i common danuer to defend 0ie territorial d?-1 cisioii Ojl ibe peace treaties of I'aiis. Between January and December two struggles were carried on in Kurope. The fir>t between France' am'. Belgium on the one hand and G i tuan> on the oitaer turned about the question of German resistance to Allied occupation of the Hhur. The second, between France and Belgium again united and Great Brittuin was waged over the legality of ihe occu pation and its permanence. In a word the Germans resisted the Hhur occupation in the hope ot compelling Ihe occupying powers t<? retire, the British strove by every possible ' .means, both friendly and otherwise, to persuade the French to ab.iiKlon the ocupation and the purpose which it represented. French Twice Victors Both struggles were won by the French. The Germans having resist ed until they had entirely wrecked their monetary system and brought the whole nation to the edge of a ruin it is still impossible to >ay can be prevented, were compelled t<? sur render unconditionally. The British, despite nil their efforts, were ?niu frouted by the Unequivocal declara tion of Poincare at the close of the Hhur War that French occpatlon would continue until German pay ment was complete. Indeed, there was the djrfible declaration, namely that France would stay in the Hhur until Germany paid ond on the 1 ft bank of the Hhln until Germany gave clear proof of her hnvinu laid aside all intention to menace French and Belgian security. We have *e< n in all thii .then, the loKienl and the Inevitable result of. the repudiation by the I'nlted States and Great Britain of the bargain 'hade l? their name; by ML*. Wilson and Mr. I>loyd Geor^? . !'?;? t' ? term.-1 of that bargain, th- "?ii Anglo?8*x on nation- In return for French < :i eent to resign li r power to take phy sical guarantee- of security, bound themselves to gu^ran'c w'th Their own strength her later >f ?-/. v/hil'* they similarly ?iUMg< d for further r Agnations on^.F'' :i?'?j ban. '<? sliarc sun KIIOI 1)1 Its >;i i t in . The -regular annual *toc".holder meetlnu of this Company will l? held In the Directors room of tie First < Citizens National Bank. Tuesday, January 1 nth. 1921. betwevt) the hours of 2 p. m. and 3-p. m. SOITHKHN TIJI >T COMPANY, L. K. OLD. ?l*c.20.24.Jan.7,1 I Secretary, ^^?^Tijaf^cata^t^ngfaffariatafiafiofawtNta1 For Rent Or Sale One 11 room Home, Klectrlc flight*, Mot ?uid fold Water, llot Water llrat. Radiators In each room. Powwlon at mice, Xo. JVtW Peon. Ave. Apply to W. S. White at W. S. White & Co , ISO POINOKXTKIt ST, KUubrth Illy. M. O. V ' with Krone? in tin* execution ?,* a treaty which meant tor France re parations as well as security. The rejection of this bargain hv tin* American Senate anil in practice by tin* ltritisli Government led. after thi'?M* years of argument and nn riin itial inn. to that point where Fraiuv. resuming her freedom of oi l ion and lindiiiK she no longer could expect British off American aid. proceeded on tier own with Belgian assistance to take those guarantees and sane-, tions which she had renounced at Paris in 1919 and to *ict in 1923 as she would have acted in 1919 bill-for the offers of her partners of the great struggle. Having refused- lo march with France and Belgium in January, how over. the British found themselves ever after that estopped from any effective intervention. Thus while the French action gave France in stantly the dominant position on the Continent, enabled her. in assoei^ tion with her allien to take-a posi tion of influence which she had not occupied since the high water mark of \lie First* Empire. the obvious in ability of Britain lo restrain or even to moderate French policy more and more drew attention to the actual impotence of llritain in a Kurop.- in which she had been, with. only .brief Interruptions, the dominant if not the dominating force since the 'mor row of W-iterloo. France Musi l'rofit If France, despite In r victory, was not able and is not yet able lo har vest material gain from her enor mously valuable acquisitions, she has at the very ie-isl laid hands upon tin richest mineral region of the Con tinent ami holds it lo ransom. Ger many may choose tv work it in co operation with France, and Belgium /and lo the profit of both. ??r she may continue t?? refuse to operate <md sink herself into < ruin lujrdly par alleled in modern history. But if she works. Franc*' will profit in repar ations; it she rcf.uscs to work, France will gain In security; Moreover as Germany ha* resisted, ?.mil. ha vim; lost the Ithpr War. has delayed coming to ' French terms, France has looked with at least ben evolent quiescence upon the rise of Separatists movements it; the (thine land and in the llhur and with equaii imity upon the gradual ?lir-1lit? ration of ih<* whole edificc of William I and Iti'inarrk. j Germany ha- 11 i?? I t?? >av- her- If l?v |.? France ? I f.uli a Britain ha*'tried to >-.ive rmattv from her fat'*, a* nk-li'li-'il by Krun?<'. ;tti?l liu- equally !a:l?->1. T..i process iii in<Mi-a.-iui. l-'n'iirli prestiy and pouer iu Kurope. ha- ??h-niri il, that <if llritsiin and annihilated iInn.. ??j Germany. . Today I lit* ?lime Herman problem r?*m:iilis* b.ifilitiK in ill** extreme ami iloiicrali1 beyond description;-- lull tin* fact thai this yt'ur lei* mailt* i-lcar beyond debate i.- i lu?i GiTinaiiy cannot live save on t??rin-* imposi'i! Ii.v France. What is ii<?w o|ii-u to question is wh?-lh? r she can siill live under any condition*, this side of a supreme catastrophe and a period iff unexampled misery and weakness. In the past twelve months French policy has moved with great din-ci ne?.* and unmistakable clarity. Di rected by M. I'oincare it has hesiia led -.it no obstacle and it has been retarded by no rest Mint. .More over. the supreme fact, it has en listed the united support of the whole nation and at the close of the second year of his occupation of his po?d. the French premier wields an authority hardly equaled in the pe-ice history of the Third Republic. In hHrdly more than a year Lloyd George in Kuglund has Riven way to Itonar Law. 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