CLEMENCEAU

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5

CLEMENCEAU

great SPEECH AT HEW YORK APPEAL TO UNITED STATES TO STAND BY FRANCE (By Electric Telegram.----Copyright.) (Australian k N.Z. Cable Aueociahott.) NEW YORK, N,iv. 22. In a speech in English which at times was inaudible because it. was made in a low voice, yet- at times so eloquent that the audience broke into; cheers, M. Clonlcnceau. speaking mi characteristic manner, full of force and vitality, demanded to know why. immediately after the armistice was signed, England and the United States ■seemed'to draw away from the economic entente with France ami why the United Slates declined to see lie; enforcement of those conditions of ue:ice which she herself helped to set down. He said: “How could we went, to dominate Europe if we had just liber a ted her? England gel her guarantee when the German Heel w.m sank at Scapa Flow. The United Slates got her guarantee later by the scrapping of (he Anglo-i’Japanese Alliance. A hide you forbid ns guarantees’) Germany, even u she pays, will mil give us half what- the ’treaty assured. Germany is preparing fur another war and fabricating gnus as never before. Ue would have gone on to Berlin if we had known the terms of (he Treaty would not he executed. 1_ am not opposed to the rehnhiliiaf ion m Germany, but- if a man did not pay his cheque who would trust him again? I met Mr Lloyd George at Carlsbad before the war. I told hen Germany was preparing for war. He did not believe it. He charged me with militarism ; but when the war came the Entente was not ready, which disproved the charge of militarism. England was the balancing power in Europe and. would not have entered the war im mediately if Belgium had not been invaded. I felt that after the armistice England tried to restrain us. The United Slates had no right to leave before the settlement and peace wore enforced, especially where our peoples had mixed their blood on the battlefield.” M. Ciemenceau commented on the League of Nations and Mr Wilson’.'? work and the audience cheered vociferously. He added that he did no! believe the. League would prevent war. but it, was a good beginning. Ho con eluded with an appeal to Ihe United States to again join France and England to face Germany—ultimately this must bo done—and draw up plans for a European settlement and to make Germany live up to it.