VERSAILLES TREATY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 127, 26 November 1923, Page 7

VERSAILLES TREATY

POINCARE MAKES A SENSATION RELATIVE OF PRANCE AND THE ALLIES. LONDON, 23rd November. The sitting of Ihe French Chamber, like that of the Reichstag, was not with^ out incident. H. Poincarej in the course .of his speech, said that the negotiators of the Treaty of Versailles signed it in opposition to the President of the Eepublic (M. Poincare) and Marshal Foch. "Why, then, did you accept the Treaty?" demanded.a deputy. "I intended to resign," replied M. Poincare. "I consulted the Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, and also Marshal Foch. They all asked me not to resign." ;._".''_._ ■ '

Deputy Mandel wished to reply, but the uproar was such that the sitting had to be suspended. When it was resumed the deputies carried" tho vote of confidence.

Earlier in the proceedings M. Poincare mentioned that he recently asked permission of the British Government to publish _ a Yellow Book detailing the negotiations for an Anglo-French pact or guarantee, in which Mr. Lloyd George and the succeeding British Premiers had refused to insert a military convention. "I will never give up the idea," declared M. Poincare, in recalling that France notified Britain in May, 1922, "that M. MiUerand's engagement^ that France would not act alone could apply only to inter-Allied questions." The Premier concluded with the declaration : "If France were threatened tomorrow, she would act alone, without asking authorisation of the Allies."