AMERICA AND EUROPE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17610, 13 November 1922, Page 10

AMERICA AND EUROPE.

OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT HABDING.

(Br CBole—Prs*s AMOclstica—tAuitrsliaa and K.Z. CAbls Association.* (Received November 12th,. 0.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 10. President Harding, in an Armistice Day message, declares: "While our first duty will be to our own, that duty cannot adequately be discharged in narrownees and selfishness. I think we have come to realise that as a nation wo cannot hope to avoid obligations and responsibilities, often arduous and burdensome, as part of the price we inust pay for our fortunate relationship to the confraternity of nations." - M. CLEMENCEAU'S VISIT. OBJECT OF HIS TOUR. PARIS, November 10. M. Clemenceau will sail on Saturday for a lecturing tour of the Upited States. Tho proceeds will be devoted to charities. He told an interviewer that he hoped to make America underetand that an understanding between France, Britain, and America would be the best basis for peace in Europe. Great interest is being taken in the visit of M. Clemenceau to the United States early in November. To the Paris correspondent of the _lSew World,'' who' interviewed him, he said that, withotit meddling in party politics. he intends to be friendly but frank with the American people", because the time has dome. "They have left us m the lurch since the peace, the correspondent vehorts him as saying, ami must be told that they are co-respon-sible for the state of Europe, which they incessantly attiibiite to a rencii militarism that does not exist. M. Clemenceau emphasises tluit, he is out to address the world, and to try to do good in his last veare. "If America does not take it-are.' he says "she will soon be in jiist Buch a mess as Europe now j 9 » England will also loom largely in his talks, but. he adds, "I am not out to make mischief; that ij why I have definitely decided never to write my memoirs. I could not write the wyole truth without stirring up trouble, .and I hope Mr Lloyd George bears that fact in mind when he is writing his." M. Clemenceau declares that he has left politics for enter, afid nothing on earth could indube him to return. He. will not touch specific matters, such _as inter-allied debts, but will keep to liis main thesis, namely, that America has not stood by her Allies in peace as pha did in war, and she was wrong in quitting. Enfflend likewise. He does not intettd to tell anyone his dutv. arid will eng&ge ih no war politick. He will mr i dulge in ho personalities. He will attemnt to speak, not so much for the good Of Ftftnce as for the good of ine tvorld.