"MOSCOW WANTS WAR"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 9

"MOSCOW WANTS WAR"

FRENCH CONDEMNATION

(United Press Association. —Cooyricht. . PARIS, 27th May. Continuing his speech in the Chamber, M. Sarraut (Minister of the Intenor) read the text of Communist brochures and newspapers inculcating military slackness, disobedience, defeatism, and anti-nationalism—a process for slowly p6isoning the conscience of soldiers and sailors. He finally declaimed: "We will prosecute you, because you are provokers of war. You talk nothing but armed revolution, which will lead to torrents of blood! xou unceasingly scourge the hopes of peace. You flout .the League of Nations. Do you take us for fools? Moscow wants war in order to establish its own domination." M; Cachin earlier in the debate had declared that the workers were resolviLl a fttain P,T^. Ho P red«ted that thr *! ' 1 WloBit»- Subject peoples throughout the world were bursting with * desire for freedom. M, Blum aaid M. Sarraut has presumably been inspired by British action. , He inquired what was the Gov6r\fe^ • poHcy tow»rd the Soviet. riM 3"?? d *v <F°rei«T» Minister) re-1 phed: "If. the Bussian , Government fails in ajnatter of diplomatic etif«f« Vl iS 0V. ernmeilt ' t0 "bserve, it i? jf or *h« foreign Ministry to indicate the^ sanctions to be imposed if it wishes to take action."