FOCH WITHDRAWS NOTHING
Reply to Lloyd George’s Article. Rhine Frontier Controversy. By Telejrrnph—Press Association—Copyright. Anstralinn and N.Z. Cable Assooiation. (Received December 18, 8.5 a.m.) PARIS, December 16. Marshal Foch referring to Mr. I.loyd George’s article, said that he withdrew nothing he had spoken or written regarding the Rhine frontier. “ Le Journal ” points out that Marshal Foch, in an official memorandum, dealt exclusively with the question of France’s security, declaring that only the military occupation of the Rhine could safeguard France from further invasions, and also recalling M. Poincare’s letter addressed to M. Clemenceau in 1918, in which he asked for the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, until Germany fulfilled her obligations. It is pointed out that M. Poincare specified the occupation as provisional and did not refer to annexation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16918, 18 December 1922, Page 7
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