RHINE VIGIL: CLEMENCEAU'S EXPLANATION.
LONDON, July 18.— "France's security is incompatible' with a wide reduction of her military, system," saicl M. Clemenceau (Premier of France), giving evidence before the .Rarliamiehtarv Commission in iPaife, which ' is i , trench'-, chantly examining .wai/and/peace.,hegotiations...,- .. -,.'-,. '"'''dd- ' '''.- './ ' ..'. '■'■'• M: ; Clemenceau said^hat '" when//he found that the permanent, occupation of the Rhine bridgeheads would involve a lonely and costly vigil for France, he plunged . for the British and American treaties, which in view of British and American, ability to provide munitions, ; had secured th'e : peace of the world for a considerable ; period. "'" v '--' /-/' '-:" : "; / j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 5
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