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THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 15 1922 PREMIER'S SUPPORT DECLARED Will Lloyd George Held Nearing Political Finish. FIGHT, HOWEVER, LIKELY iLUDENDORFF HATES U. S. Action in-War. JEW BANKERS BLAMED All England Jeering Over Near East Diplomacy; General Election Now Expected. BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain's Greatest Liberal Editor. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonian.) LONDON, Oct 14. (Special Cable.) The future of Lloyd George is the chief subject engrossing: all Eng land today. With the passing of the near east menace the plans of the premier are discussed everywhere. Will he resign? When will the gen eral -election come? What will be the political alignment when it does come? Matters cannot go on as at pres ent. The premier's astonishing dip lomatic methods in relation to the Turk have left him in an extraor dinary position. He is mistrusted by all parties about equally, but the new factor -n the situation is his loss of the support 'of the news papers. Heretofore his chief power came from that source. Near-panic pervades the financial and commercial world at the reve lation of his political levity. City opinion may be summarized thus: "He landed us in the position where we had the choice of fighting the Turk without other European support or of kowtowing to him. We have kowtowed and suffered a humiliation no great nation should accept." All England Laughing. The tremendous assaults of James Louis Garvin on him show how low his prestige has fallen because Gar vin's former enthusiasm for the pre mier approached idolatry. He was the heaven-sent minister, hardly human, almost God-like. He was Pitt, Cromwell, Lincoln, all in one miraculous bod. Now he is more black than I, who have been expos ing his jugglery for seven years, everi have painted him. He is the chief author of all Europe's misfor tunes and must be cleared out, bag and baggage. s J All England is laughing at his unprecedented somersault, but the significance of the comedy is great. It indicates the complete pricking of the bubble of the greatest repu tatiori ever blown in English poli tics. But Lloyd George, with his back to the wall, will fight des perately. Speculation centers on the ques tion whether he will make the plunge to the right or the left. His recent efforts have been directed toward making peace with the lib erals, but "no thoroughfare" is in scribed In his path. Any compact with labor is out of the question. His own personal following is small and will vanish If he Is unable to provide troughs for their hungry mouths. Tory Leaders Retained. There remain the torles. But the tory rank and file is as hostile to Lloyd George as is the rank and file of the liberals and laborites. He does, however, retain a powerful hold-on the leaders of the tory fac tion,, whom he has skillfully In volved in his failures and who see no chance, of retaining office ex cepting through his strategy. It seems probable, therefore, that he will , plunge to the right, raise the cry of bolshevism to discredit labor and seek to capture stray liberal support on the ground of the suc cess of h's Irish policy and the pur suit of Gladstone traditions In the near east. One thing generally is agreed. He will not resign. He knows that the chief source of power is possession of office and that once he Is robbed of his power recovery would be problematical. His aim, therefore, will be to keep the shadow of the coalition, even though the substance has gone and decide the date and issue of the general election rather than leave that advantage to others. The strength of Jiis position is the poverty of the tory leadership, j Chamberlain, Churchill and Birken head all have failed and there Is no outstanding figure to lead any revolt there against Loyd George's dictatorship. The present Impres sion is that he will force the elec tion before Christmas. Landslide Now Possible. ' What will be the result? It Is most problematical. There is an overwhelming feeling against coali tion and there may be a landslide against its continuance by the tory voters. In that case the liberal and labor parties would be enormously strengthened. ' It now Is estimated that labor may secure one-third of the house of commons, the tory party rather more -and the liberals less. - Would labor take office with the liberals? It Is more than doubtful. Meanwhile we'awalt the declaration of the election and an outburst of antl-bolshevism, with Lloyd George playing the role of St. George slay ing the suppositious dragon. Hebrews Declared at Bottom All Trouble in World at Present Time. (Continued From First Fage.) Of general election, bart of the press charging that a. election before the conservative pa., convention in November would be a political trick. The inference, which may be wrong, was that Mr. Lloyd George will, wait to see whether that con vention commits the conservatives to dropping the coalition, in which event he might try to return as: leader of the liberal party. He I spoke throughout as a liberal, mak- . il? ?jr?to .iiai iiincipies, Greec Said to Have Caused From -today's display of form it is safe to predict that if a general election comes the Welsh giant, de spite his seven years of overwhelm ing labors, -will be ready to carry, on a whirlwind campaign. In beginning his speech Mr. Lloyd George declared the people of this country must no't believe that their government had endeavored to rush Great Britain into war. "We have not been war mongers but peacemakers," he" said. Misrepresentation la Charged: Continuing his defense of the government's policy regarding the near east Mr. Lloyd George &a.id the negotiations had been conducted in a manner unprecedented in. this country. The .government, he de clared, had been- assailed with mis representations such as 'no govern ment had ever been subjected. The country would resent this, he de clared, .adding- that "queer peo-ple were let loose in the press In these days. "My-task has ' been made -much easier," declared the premier, "by the speech which Mr. Chamberlain with clarity and lucidity, point and lorce, delivered yesterday. "Our object in the action we took was three-fold the -freedom of the straits, the prevention of the war spreading into Europe and the pre vention of the relation in Constan tinople and Thrace of the unutter able horror of Asia Minor. War la Traced to Balkan. "The war of 1914 practically began in the Balkans. We had to act promptly, resolutely and firmly Since 1014 the Turks, according to orricial testimony, have slaughtered in cold blood 1,500,000 Armenians and 500,000 Greeks without amy provocation at all. At one point in his speech Mr Lloyd George declared: , There has been speech after speech of intolerable abuse and I am told to bear it like a Chris titn, out tnere are too many peo ple about the world who think It is the business of Christians to be seemed a matter of paramount im portance. I had heard him Luden dorff spoken of as the head of tha monarchists working for the return of an emperor Gruff Answer Given. PREMIER FLAYS CRITICS (Continue From First Page. he rendered liberalism? I know of none, except one he is the best liv ing embodiment of the liberal doc trine that ability is not hereditary." Some of his strongest points in defense of the government's near eastern dealings were that the Turks had slaughtered since 1914 a million and a half Armenians and half a million Greeks; that to give way to them now would be to sac rifice the greater part of the victory won over Turkey in the great war; that an "Am I my brother's keeper?" has never been a doctrine of the lib eral party. . France 'Also Reproached. The premier also had reproach for France. A tew weeks ago," he said "the French government sent us a message that if the Turks or Greeks entered the neutral zone they would have to be resisted by force. We thought they meant it. How were we to know it was intended for one elder' Dealing with the charge that his administration had muddled near east affairs. Lloyd George asserted that they had inherited the situation from their predecessors. Asquith and Grey. Replying to criticisms that he should have employed the sort of diplomacy Sir Edward Grey exer cised before the world war. he re torted that that had been the most ealamitious diplomatic failure the world has ever known. The Impression made on most of his auditor was that the premier does not propose to have an early massacred by Turk or pro-Turk. I am not one or that sort of Chris-" tians." A little further on the prime min ister said: If there is to be a change there is no man who would welcome it more than I. I have had a long spell and a very hard one. I love free dom. There are a lot of things I want to say." "Die-Hards" Are IMscnssed. This statement by the premier was after he had turned to home poli cies, a subject on which the whole empire was awaiting his pronounce ment, tie asserted there were "die hards" (the ultra-conservatives) on both sides. "There are some who would like to make me a die-hard and soon." "It's no use trying to bluff a first-rate fighting animal," said Mr. Lloyd George, referring to the near east. -It's always a" mistake to threaten unless you mean it. The Turks knew we meant it and that's why we have peace. "I am told we Tiave departed from the methods of the old .diplomacy. That's very sad! The old diplomacy ended in the most disastrous war this world has ever seen. The ama teur diplomacy of 1922 has at least brought peace. "I am sorry to see that the liberals have been pleading that it was none of our business to intervene between the Turks and their victims. That was not the old liberal doctrine. I maintain that the policy we adapted regarding Turkey was in accordance with the highest Interests and tradi tions of this land and we have rea son to be proud it succeeded." Readiness to FiRht Declared. At one point Mr. Llovd Georen declared dramatically, with his 'head inrown Dack: - s "As lone- as I have a aword In mv hand and God gives me strength to u&e it, x wi;u do eo. Continuing his dealing with tha near eastern situation, he said: Sir Charle Harinirton wn.rnpd nq that there were from 15.000 to 20.000 armed Turks Inside Constantinople." .ine premier torn of the steps that had been taken to control the situation around Constantinople. we received a message from the French government," he said, "that if either the Greeks or the Turks invaded the neutral zone they would have to be resisted by force by the allies. we accepted that We thought they meant it" After expressing his love of free dom, saying that no one would wel come a change more than he, the prime minister added: "Three years ago I was anxious to go out, and begged Mr. Bonar Law to take the office. He declined. I never sought the position. I never wished to retain it. But I will serve my country in any capacity."' Experiment Held Interesting;. "I shall watch many things," he added. "I .shall watch to see how we are to forgive Germany her rep arations and yet make France love us more than ever. I shall watch how we are to pay the United States all we owe her and forgive every other country all they owe us. "It will be an interesting ex periment," the premier said, "to see the work of others. That is one of the joys I have in store. , "I have many friends among the conservatives and liberals, and cast myself on the people, whose cause I have never betrayed during 32 years of public life. The world has not yet recovered from the war," he said. "That re covery will be slow and .tedious. My course is a clear ' one. I will sup port any movement that devotes it self to measures which will not in flict permanent injury upon the country, whether those measures are reactionary or revolutionary." Situation Declared Grave.. Mr. Lloyd George declared the sit uation was too grave for any man to indulge in party or personal ma neuvers. He intended to abide by his office, he said. "The future is a perplexing one. I shall claim no personal or party gain." "No one knows better than Lord Grey," the prime minister said, "that in international affairs there are factors over which you have no con trol. It is best therefore to be charitable to others. It's no- use throwing stones at people who are doing their best to work through difficulties. "I did not Improvise the policy. 1 Inherited it. The agreements were entered Into before ever I became prime minister. I am not blaming anybody for anything in which- I do not take part myself'. "We have had to recast our policy. We have made the hest of it and we have succeeded. "I place the national security and prosperity in front of the interest of anybody and I mean to abide by my position," said the premier In con cluding. "If I am driven into the wilderness I shall recall with pride that I have been able with the as sistance of loyal colleagues in the dark houra of this country's history to render it no mean service." one's opponent's position, such as the ex-war leader Is conducting in the fatherland today, and because there is always the chance that a visitor, presenting. himseif with the best credentials, may be but a cam puflaged "red." bomb in .pocket or revolver on the hip. Incidentally, I had heard that Lu dendorff was wont to keep two re volvers handy (one visible on his desk) and that he kept a stove per petually burning In case of an emer gency calling for the destruction of his private papers, but even such knowledge hardly prepared me for the circumstances of my advent at the Villa Ludendorff and of my meeting with its owner. My arrival at the gate was- the signal for two snarling wolfhounds to leap down the steps at me; so 1 paused outside. The villa, a big, whit mansion standing in its own grounds and hedged in by trees, 1 could see commanded a gorgeous panoramic view of a winding river valley far away below happy haven of an unpensioned, dismissed officer. Dng-s Pronounced Friendly. Meanwhile, my chauffeur was cer tain that the police dogs meant no harm it was just their playful little way to growl and snap and behave like caged lions the other side of that gate. Ultimately, after a con siderable wait, which may or may not have -been put to some use within the villa, a small child whom I subsequently clicked heels to as j Ludendorff 2d, aged 3, beckoned me from the porch. The gate, opened simultaneously and for the honor of the allied and associated powers 1 had perforce to proceed. As I en tered the grounds the dogs began describing snarling circles around me, their tongues loosely out, and it was inside of this disconcerting fox trot that I had to make my mission known to the maid. Would I pass into the salon? I moved forward into the center of the room, accompanied now by only one of the dogs, but the animal was ap parently not In favor of my sitting down, so I stood still while he con tinued his trotting and sniffing. I may have stood two or three minutes -I recall studying three highly- colored and life-size paintings on the walls, one of the ex-kaiser to his ever-true comrade Erich von Luden dorff, another of Hindenburg, more passionately inscribed, and a third of Ludendorff himself, stooping over a map, compass in hand- and plan rting a battle when I became aware that there was somebody else in the room. The same Instant the maid announced "Excellenz von Luden dorff!" General Enters Softly. The .general had come in without making a sound and stood bolt up right, his wife beside him, in the doorway some six paces from me Tall, massive and with fair mus tache curling upward at either end in the approved imperial style, he fixed his penetrating blue eyes upon me. I noticed that he had on knick erbockers and. wore the Bavarian peasant's blue cotton coat. Into the left hand pocket of which one fist was jammed hard down, but not enough to conceal the outline of a revolver -muzzle sticking forward within. Meanwhile, the dog began barking and prancing about me and Ludendorff said not a word; just continued to fix me with his small light blue eyes. Finallyit seemed after an age he appeared to have come to some decision. He waved his wife away and out of the room with an abrupt gesture, and bore down upon me in a near-goosestep, eyes still fixed relentlessly on mine, left hand still ' pressed down into his coat pocket. A yard from me, he drew himself up, bowed- about an inch in a jerk, ex tended a nerveless hand and said "Ludendorff!" To which I was just replying when he ordered: "Sit down in that chair bver there! No, over there! Take no notice of the dog!" all this rasped out as if I had been a felgrau on parade. After I had seated myself, face to the window Ludendorff walked around behind me and sat down in an armchair some three paces op posite, his eyes still set on mine (as they continued throughout), his left hand still pressed down in his. coat pocket (as it continued through out). I appreciated that it were best to smile and fiddle around with my wrist watch. Suddenly the gen eral said: "What do you want?" I ex plained that I was making an in quiry into the chances of a mon archist revival In Europe generally, and in Bavaria and Prussia in par ticular hoping thus to draw him into talking as the chief "old brigadier," which he undoubtedly is. "And what has that got to do with America?" was Ludendorff s opening rejoinder. I explained that Americans were still keenly interested in the future of Germany and that whether the existiner republic endured or not "Let America mind its own busi ness!" ejaculated Ludendorff, "as it should have , done on a previous oc-j caslon. What right have you (was : haben sie zu thun) here, in Europe?! To us Germans you - have brought j nothing but ill. I shall say nothing to you on monarchy, and mind, you j are not interviewing me on it. but ; I have much to say on other things (ich habe zu viel anders zu sagen). The ex - quartermaster - general j spoke in guttural, staccato sen- ' tences stabbed out in the best Prus sian style and accompanied by a stiff tempo beating with the free band. "But you are at the. head of the movement to bring the ex-kaiser back, are you not? At least, tell me why you think the Hohenzollerns beneficial to. Germany." "I refuse to make any declaration to you on the subject. The matter concerns Germany alone. I am liv ing here in retirement in Bavaria. And I repeat, I fail to see what right America has to interest itself In the future of Germany. Let the Americans study themselves for a change. The Americans! One rec ord you established. rYou entered the war from the. worst motive in the history of the world. You en tered it for gold. We, we Germans, we fought for the supremacy of our race. You you fought for gold. Tell them that if you like!" And Ludendorff leaned forward, rasping out the words, finger shot right out at me. U. S. Conduct Defended. "But, excellenz, are supremacy and gold so very far apart, ad mittted -that the object of the United States in entering the war was financial gain? Would not the supremacy, which, you mention as having been the war object of Ger many have brought in its train very substantial monetary advantages to the German people?" "Das mag sein," retorted Luden dorff, "but I only thought of our race." "But do you class all Americans the same? What of the German Americans?" "They are the worst of the lot. They are terrible people (schrech- liche leute). We got notning irom them then and expect nothing of them now. Bah, the Americans? The most narrow-minded people in the world. We can do without you" (Wir koennen ohne, euch draus kommen). While uttering the above words Ludendorff worked himself up into a declamatory heat, giving each phrase as if it were a military order and gesticulating in unison. It was clear that he nourished the keenest hatred, freely mixed with contempt, for the United States. And that he spoke for a very large. formidable and growing section oi the German people I, for one, nave not the remotest doubt. eupeniciai mnrteav to dollar-spending Ameri can tourists notwithstanding, plus a very German tendency to cringe to the temporary top dog, what every German knows is who won the war. and he does not lnienu in forget it. I sought to temporize .-ith T.ndendorff. mentioning the Lusitania and indiscriminate U-boat warfare. Munitions on Lusitania. "The Lusitania had munitions on beard, otherwise how do you think h -nnld have blown up bo a- nr nut- IT hnats. it was the voy age of the Deutschland across the Atlantic which reaiiy oeciueu You then began to see your gold slipping from you." We left the subject, and, after few random words, Ludendorff con tinued: "Germany has been abom inably treated, but there will come a Aair nf reckoning. Look at me Picture my position before the war. And now I can only give my family meat twice a week. 'Tis the same everywhere. And they say that we Germans have not suffered. Gott! He looked so ample and happily situated that it was hard to repress a smHe. "Take the French," he went on. "The French have imposed impos sible conditions and have incident ally wounded our national pride. That is why we are bitter toward them. It Is for them to make the first step if the bitterness is to disappear!" Bismarck's Policy Recalled. -While Ludendorff continued to lecture, I harkened back to tne methods pursued by Bismarck alter the Franco-Prussian war, when he found himself in a very similar po sition to that in which Poincare is today. In order to make J) ranee pay, and speedily. Bismarck occu pied a stretch of France propor tionately 15 times that occupied by the French in Germany today. He put four divisions in the forts arcund Paris and threatened pro gressively to increase the occupa tion if and as France failed to pay up. Further and offering a direct parallel to the dilemma of the hope lessly weak Wirth government in Berlin today Bismarck wrote' to Jules Ferry in 1873, when there vere signs in Paris of a national reaction against the ever-yielding French government, that he would ini-tantly reopen the war and move half a million troops back into B'rance for that purpose should the French government of the day lose any more of its authority, since such further weakening would tend to jeopardize installments to Ger many. - . t "Well, what ought France to do?" I asked at last. "Go home and dis arm?" Disarmament Talk Scorned. ."Disarm!" laughed Ludendorff aloud. "Why, yes if they were quite mad. All this disarmament talk is pure nonsensical, dangerous rubbish. You can tell your Ameri cans that as well. All the disarma ment conference did was to cheapen naval war and alter Its fighting units. 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And it will not recover like Ger many is going to!" "But how do you mean 'doomed I queried. An illuminating event here trans pired. Ludendorff turned the sub ject to Ireland. I said 1 was Irish. His manner eased for the first time and showed pleasure. "Then tell me about the great Collins (Michael Colling had not then been killed). He is of course playing with them in London? He is of course going to establish a re public when ft suits him? Ah, if we only had more of th Irish coast for our submarines in the last war! It would have been all up with Eng land. Listen. In sacrificing her fleet and giving Ireland her free dom, England has made the two greatest blunders in her history. She has failed to appreciate that never again will Canadians or Aus tralians rush to her side In Europe in anything like national numbers. Contingents may cross, .but that will be all." Ludendorff stopped short, as if afraid that he had said too much. Future Win Expected. I spoke of Ireland, doubting if he was correct In his surmise that Ire land would range herself against England in the ne'xt war. Gradu ally this next war was coming through the mist. Here, at least. with Ludendorff and such as he stood for, it would be writ, "Noth ing has changed." The new Europe he saw but in frontiers for future firrhting. He spoke on of the wrongs done Germany and I gathered this perhaps not unimportant undercur rent that whereas his next Ger many after the present one would be resigned to the loss, of Alsace forever, it would put in Its "re vanche" file the complete re-estab lishment of the remainder of the German empire as it existed up to 1918. ' T.ndendorff neit spoke of holshe- vism, with which he is suspected of having flirted. I asked if it were not a fact that he had recently cme together at the monarchist headquarters, Rosenheim, In Lower Bavaria, with the Grand Duke Nich olas, former generalissimo of the Russian armies. Ludendorff shook his head. "Our policy is for one of home internal construction, not of foreign scheming. And we are above party. We are concentrating ex clusively on Internal politics." "Of what kind, excellent?" "To get rid of that loathsome government up In Berlin. A lot of bolsheviks and Jews. What else is this defense of the republic law but sheer bolshevism? And tha Jews they are at the bottom of all the trouble in the world today. They are the greatest peril In the world today. (Ludendorff empha sized this Judengefahr by march Ins up and down the room and raising his voice.) And America is their breeding center. If it hadn't been for Jews wanting to make money, you'd probably have stayed out of the war. And now you're supporting this republic simply be cause . it is Jewish." Ludendorff paused and looked down at me. "The German people," he pro claimed, "will have a monarchy be cause they have monarchy in the marrow of their bones. When and how that is not for discussion." I asked if civil war between north and south and between the Indus trial centers and the rest of the country would first be necessary, and if so whether he thought it likely that the allies would inter vene to prevent the re-establishment of the old order. On this and all kindred matters appertaining to the movement of which he is tn head. Ludendorff preserved a stony silence. He would not say If the reichswehr of 100,000 men would remain faithful to the republic in an emergency (and he assuredly Is well posted on this probably de termining question), nor would he admit that the backbone of his party is formed by an organized corps of 40,000 ex-offirers whose one-time supremacy has been exchanged for obscurity and poverty. 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