RESENTMENT IN FRANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 7

RESENTMENT IN FRANCE.

ATTACK ON LLOYD GEOBGE.

SPEECH AROUSES ANQER.

M. BOUILLON TO REPLY. By Telegraph—Prees Association—Copyrisht. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. PARIS, Oct. 15. There is much comment on Mr. Lloyd George's speech in the Paris press. He is accused of relating history in his own fashion for his own purposes. .There is resentment against his accusation that the Frcnch abandoned the British. Mr. Lloyd George's words are regarded in some journals as more wounding than any which enemy .countries directed against France during the war. The Temps, in a violent attack, says: "It pleases Mr. Llovd George to appear amid the lightning of European storms."

3VL Franklin Bouillon, whose actions in f:he Near East have been criticised in British semi-official quarters, says that lie will reply to Mr. Lloyd George, and the world will be surprised when it knows <i'xactJiy what happened.

Public: opinion resents Mr. Lloyd George's references to the French agreement to protect the neutral zone, which France interprets as an allegation that France broke her word. M. Tardieu describes the speech as a firebrand calculated to start a" conflict. From the month of the Prime Minister these are words of conflict not hoard between London and Paris for 25 years.

The Temps accuses Mr. Lloyd George of seeking; election advantages at the expense of European peace.