APPEAL TO AMERICA.
HER HELP IN EUROPE. FRANCE AND GUARANTEE. SETTLING WITH GERMANY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 22, 9.25 p.m. New York, Nov. 22. In a speech in English, which at times was inaudible because it was made in a low voice, yet at times so eloquent that the audience broke into cheers, M. Clemenceau, speaking in a characteristic manner, full of force ana vitality, demanded why immediately after the armistice was signed England and the United States seemed to draw away from an economic entente with France, and why the United States declined to see the enforcement of tho«se conditions of peace which she herself helped to set down. He asked: “How could we want to dominate Europe if we had just liberated her, and her liberation is our need. England got her guarantee when the German fleet was sunk at Scapa Flow, and the United States got her guarantee later by the scrapping of the An-glo-Japanese Alliance. Why do you forbid us guarantees? Germany, even if she paya. will not give us half what the treaty assured. “Germany is preparing for another war, and is fabricating guns as never before. We would have gone on to Berlin if we had known that the terms of the treaty would not be executed. I am not opposed to the rehabilitation of Germany, but if a man did not pay a cheque would you trust him again? “I met Mr. George at Carlsbad before the war. and I told him Germany was preparing for war. He did not believe it. and he charged me with militarism. but when the war came the Entente was not ready, which disproved. the charge of militarism. England was the balancing power in Europe, and would not have entered the war immediately if Belgium had not been invaded. I felt that after the armistice England tried to restrain us. The United States had no right to leave before a settlement and peace was enforced, especially where our peoples had mixed their blood on the battlefield.” M. Clemenceau commented on tne League of Nations and ex-President Wilson’s work, and the audience cheered vociferously. He added that he did not believe the League would prevent war, but it was a good beginning. He concluded with an appeal to the United States to again join France and England to face Germany—ultimately th : s must be done—and draw up a plan for a European settlement and make Germany live up to it.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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