PROVIDING AGAINST A GERMAN ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 8

PROVIDING AGAINST A GERMAN ATTACK

CLEMENCEAU PREFERS TREATIES WITH AMERICA AND BRITAIN. M. Clemenceau made a statement to. the Parliamentary Peace Commission recently concerning tho guarantee pact- pledging the United States and Great Britain to aid Franco in the event of an unprovoked attack by Germany. Replying to attacks pn him for his alleged failure ti obtain the fulfilment of Marshal Foch's demand for a prolonged occupation of tho Rhine, ho said that ho preferred the protection afforded by the pact to the proposed bridegheads which French soldiers alone would guard and which might lead to political difficulties. Had the guarantee treaties existed boforo 1914, M. Clemenceau continued, tho war would have been oven with a strong Germany. " Ho went on to point out that the German Army -will now be reduced to 100.000 men and can make no movements which might bo considered provocative within 50 kilometres from tho frontier. French security being thus assured, the Government will bo ablo to consider a cliango of conditions of military service. —"Christian Science Monitor."

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