FRANCE'S FOREIGN POLICY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 78, 27 December 1919, Page 7

FRANCE'S FOREIGN POLICY

STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER . (Rec. December 26, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, JJecejiiber 23. In a statement 111 tiie Chamber of Deputies on tiitf foreign policy JU. Clemenceau oaid he (lid not tlmik tua military guarantees offered by Jintaui and America to i'rauce would be questioned again. He went to London to discuss tne Turkish question, and there now seemed a way to evolve a satisfactory agreement, as a basis ior prelinunary agreement has already been establisned. M. Clemenceau declared that tho 1 atmosphere of England was as •friendly to franco as could be wished. Mr. Lloyd George said our two countries must keep closer together than ever. I shared that sentiment." Tho Fiume question had been a'n agonising one. 'The Italian Government had undertaken to concede Fiume to the Jugoslavs, and , upon this pledge the Serbs and Jugo-Slavs relied, but Italy had gone back on its pledges. The latest indications afforded a promise, of solution acceptable to all. The questions of Constantinople, Anatolia, Syria, tho Balkans, aiul Poland were considered. Mr. Lloyd George and himself in regard to tho future of Constantinople and tho Straits were agreed on some points, but others they are still discussing. As regards Russia, they not only would not inako peace "with Soviet Russia, but refused to negotiate with it. He scathing-, ly denounced the Bolshevists as tho most abominable and barbarous Government that ever existed, and declared that as long as Russia remained in a state of anarchy there would be no assured peace in Europe. Germany was making clandestine efforts to colonise part of Russia. "Wo must maintain Jironndi Russia a wall of bnrbed wire."— Renter.