THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3373, 30 December 1919, Page 6

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.

IREVIEWED BY M, CLEMENQE§.U.

I’ARIS, Dec. .25.

In. a statement in the Chamber on Foreign policy, M. Clemenceau said he did not think the military guarantees came». by Bri't.ain' and America to France would «again be questioned. He went to London to discuss the Turkish question and there now seemed a way to evolve a satisfactory agreement as a basis for a preliminary agreement had already been established. ' M. ‘Clemenceau declared that the atmosphere in England fwas as friendly to France as it could be wished. Mr Lloydi George said, “Our two countries must keep closer together than ever.” It shared that s‘entim;ent.” The Fiumel question had been an agonising one.| The Itali'an -Government had undertaken to concede Fiume to the Jugo-Slavs, I and upon this pledge ‘the. Serbs and Jugo-Slavs relied, -but Italy had gone back ‘on her pledges. The latest indications afforded promise of a solution“. acceptable to all. The questions of Constantinople, Anatolia, Syria, ‘the Balkans, and Poland, were considered by Mr Lloyd George and himself in regard to the future of Constantinople and the ‘Straits, they were agreed on some points, but others were still being discussed. As regards Russia. they not only would not make peace with Soviet’, Russia, ‘but they Jrefused to negotiate therewith. M. Clemenceau scathingly denounced the Bolshevists as the most abominable and barbarous Government that ever existed, -and declared that as long as Russia remained in a state of anarchy there could be no assured peace in Europe. Germany was making clanidestine reiforts to colonise parts of Russia. “We must tlmaintain -round Russia a wall of barbed’ Wire]: said M. Clemenceau. . ___.... _ A ‘FURTHER STATEMENT. ' PAIRS, Dec. 23. M. Clemenceau, in the Chamber, announced that the London conferences agreed to various points of foreign policy, and hewhoped that Mr Lloyd George would come in to Paris early in January with a View to the settlement of the Adriatic, Russian, and Eastern questions. He recaled Mr Ll_oy'-d Geo:-ge’s words that “War is impossible if Anglo-Frdnce is united.” M.-‘r Clemenc'enu.said he assured Mr Lloyd George .that, “Whatever hap-Q pens you may always rely, not only -on me, but the whole of France.” (Cheers) ,