“FRANCE MUST BE STRONG.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17

“FRANCE MUST BE STRONG.”

Ex-PrcsidcnPs iS&ily

Appeal*

COUNTER IN G GED INFLUENCE

My Cubic-- r.l-n. Assoti.rtion—'Col.vr.Khl. >. * * i l,t) i : (.Received September IC, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS. September 35. M. Mi Ho rand Km-drcsidertt? of franco) contesting ike SmuifhiMl byol.'oLkm at Oruc, o;> d hi.-, c-aurjiaign by mnmgiy iULu-king Cemmuinstp. Ha ih.-mbvii the Soviet Embassy ab.Pat'i.s ns the headquarters of revolution', and demanded that the Government eject M. Rakovsky and recall Bm..French Ambassador from -Moscow. 0 nly ,S)K'I i a rupture could strike Communis tin otherwise France would be a' dupe of Moscow, wdiich would he happy to escape difficulties by replacing M. Rakovsky with another Comhrunisst. The Government, after a declaration that Communism was an enemy, must act determinedly. Ho added “that the Locarno Pact had been vitiated because France regarded the . , ments as a means of consolidating new European hegemony. Germanvo 1 jelievod they enabled the upsetting of’Enrope, blit she could not lay hands oif-Alsnee-Lorraine, the Danzig corridor, or Upper Silesia without setting' the world on fire.

“France must remain strong/*’ said M. Millerand, “in order to’'remain respected.”