FRENCH AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 149, 21 December 1921, Page 8

FRENCH AFFAIRS

M. BRIAND INTERVIEWED

FOREIGN PROBLEMS AND

DEFENCE.

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(Received December 21, 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, 20th December.

The Daily Mail publishes an interview witli Si. Briand v who said that if Germany does not pay, France will have to borrow. Germany's bankruptcy will bring Fiance into an impossible position. He was sure a solution would be found for the Anglo-French differences. A nation emerging from a long and terrible war did not want a crushing burden of land armaments; but the weakness of. the Wirth Government compelled France to remain armed and guarded. It was impossible to say what German, Government would be in power to-morrow.

Concerning Angora, M. Briand said that the' maintaining of 90,000 men in Cilicia was a staggering burden, and France could not do otherwise than withdraw and make terms with the Turks. The delusion that France wanted war with Britain was insensate. Submarines were required for defence and not for attack. France had accepted the Hughes naval ratio, as she was glad of the' financial relief. As for the secondary units, there was still no confirmation regarding the six 10,000-ton ships Germany was allowed to build by the Versailles Conference. He wanted the Washington Conference to take this into account. Finally, France was. unanimously in favour of a peace built upon the Entente.