"Mossieu Tarrdoo"

His braw Scots tongue totally unable to cope with the niceties of French pronunciation, Prime Minister Ramsay Mac-Donald of Great Britain secretly enraged precise and wily Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France (whose English is excellent) by blandly referring to him throughout the London Naval Conference as "Mossieu Tarrdoo."

Last week just before departing for Normandy with Germain Martin, Minister of the Budget, "Mossieu Tarrdoo" wreaked a horrid revenge. The Socialists of France grew livid with fury. French non-partisans slapped their thighs, swore that Tardieu was a sly one.

French billboards burgeoned last week with huge white posters. Each poster is neatly bisected by a heavy ruled line. In an upper corner of the first section is the prim, spectacled visage of Andre Tardieu. The corresponding upper corner of the second section flaunts the romantic white forelock of Ramsay MacDonald. Parallel columns of vivid green type show concisely comparative conditions in France under Tardieu and his National Union government, and in Great Britain under MacDonald and Socialism (the Labor Party):

In France with Tardieu and the National Union:

The 1929-30 budget is balanced, shows a surplus of 7,000,000,000 francs

Five and a half billion francs in tax reductions have been voted at the request of Tardieu

There is no unemployment

Peace rules in Morocco, in Syria, in Tunisia

The national defense budget last year was 10,000,000,000 francs, or 4,500,000,000 francs less than that of the British-Socialist-Pacifists

The proof is made

that National Union brings:

Reasonable military obligations

Order in the country and in the colonies

Increase in pay for public officials, pensioners, disabled war veterans

Tax reduction

Good finances

In England with MacDonald and the Socialists:

The 1929-30 budget is not balanced, and there is a deficit of 2,000,000,000 francs

Five billion francs in new taxes are to be voted at the request of MacDonald

There are 1,750,000 unemployed

Disorder reigns in Palestine, in Egypt, in India

The national defense budget last year was 14,500,000,000 francs, or 4,500,000,000 francs higher than that of the French National Re- publicans.

The proof is made that Socialism brings:

Military expenditures no lower than those of nations governed by non-Socialists Colonial disorders

Unemployment and misery for workers

Heavy taxes

Bad finances

Straight across the bottom of both columns was a final charge in great type:

"Proof is likewise afforded in England that Socialism in power carries with it no improvement in social conditions of life." British Conservatives may have smarted at this shrewd rap at British prestige but were secretly delighted at the Labor Party's discomfort. A most loyal Conservative is Britain's Ambassador to Paris, 64-year-old William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, son of an Indian Provincial Judge, onetime (1907-15) private Secretary to Statesman-Fly-Fisherman Viscount Grey of Falloden. Last week he held many telephone conversations with his excited Labor superiors in the Foreign Office, finally announced with a subdued twinkle in his eye:

"The embassy will make no protest in the matter. The Foreign Office has decided that wisdom dictates a dignified silence."

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