Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-02
REIMBURSEMENT AFTER THE WAR

Two committees recently organized in
Paris and. London give evidence that
prudent statesmen of
Committees both France and Eng
ORGANIZED land are already pre-
V16aAlAeu. pairing to meet the
shock that peace will occasion. for the
days after the war will be full of
trouble in the task of bringing order
out of the chaos and ruin wrought by
war.
These committees. named respectively
the 'Franco-British interparliamentary
committee" and the committee of
Franco British Studies" have recently
held cooperative meetings in Paris.
and the former committee in returning
the visit of its British members pro-
poses to hold meeting in London
during the first fifteen days of April.
The interparliamentary committee as
| sembled in Paris under the presidency
| of NJ. Georges Clemenceau. senator.
Among It's members are Lord Bryce.
Mr.. I. P. OConnor. house of commons
NJ. Georges Leagues. chairman of the
group for foreign affairs of the cham
Der OF deputies: NJ. s. Pichon, former
minister of foreign affairs. and others.
The committee of Franco British
studies was organized under the hon
| orary presidency of the president of
the republic. the president of the SEN
ate. the president of the chamber and
| the amba ssador of England. The latter
committee proposes to study scientifi-
| cally problems of an economical intel
lectual and moral order which may
arise and which demand the constant
cooperation of France and Great
Britain to support the solutions which
other groups besides the interparlia-
mentary committee may suggest.
Lord Bryce. speaking for the inter-
| parliamentary committee. said:
are most happy, gentlemen, to
| accept your invitation. because it has
given US the occasion to prove once
more to the whole world that our two
! nations are equally decided to reject
| forever. crush all attempts our enc
mies may make to establish over Eu-
| rope the military domination by one
| power. This conference of members of
our two parliaments is a reply, besides,
to falsest Of calculations, which in
duced our enemies to attempt their dis
| ties OF Europe. We present, in fact, in
our own committee, composed of the
representatives of all parties and
| faiths, all nationalities of the United
Welsh--not the spectacle of a nation
divided against itself. as our enemies
charge. but nation absolutely united
and whose solidarity has suffered no
HARM"
| Some Of the principal passages of NJ.
Slemehceaus discourse merit place:
May you be welcome,
Clemenceau's gentlemen. members of
| A5l. the Britannia commit
tee. Permit me. as one
| who owes to his age the honor of ad-
| dressing you in the name of his col
leagues of the interparliamentary COM
mIttee, to say to you that in the worst
days he never despaired of a realiza-
| ton of an accord which seemed to him
| inevitable, but that he had no hone of
| witnessing it.
yes, gentlemen, I waited for Won
Tor centuries, such a long length of
| time to cross such a short space of sea,
| Where SO many war ventures seemed
to have made an impossible barrier,
open road to all capable of compre-
| hending the veritable international
fraternity Of the future founded on the
conscience of the legal right of all and
the respect of each.
Yes, yes. l waited for you since
Hastings, since the days of the Black
| prince. You see, l am not a man to
TIRE OF waiting. l waited and you
came, and here you are representatives.
of the English people spontaneously
come. not to conclude political treat
fes-which our governments will make,
not even to criticise things that escape
| the vision of assemblies.
| your visit is the anticipated culmi-
nation Of such tasks. The times de-
mand actions and civilians and military
! on poth sides of the channel are in ac-
| ton. They will remain thus until the
| emu. We give our children, fortunes,
all Tor the magnificent cause of the in
dependence of peoples and the dignity
OF men that carries with it such a rec
| ompense that in spite of the most
dolorous sacrifices we never may COM
plain that we gave too much. This is
the grand public secret which has in
| spired you to cross the sea to visit u.s.
NJ. f. Boutroux of the French Acad-
envy presided over the first meeting of
the committee of Franco-British stud
les Among the members present were
NJ Ribot, minister OF finances; NM
| Leon Bourgeois and Denys Cochin. min
listers of state: L. Renault. member of
the institute. and E. Picard. member of
nounced that Lord Bryce and NJ Ar
thur Balfour. first lord of the admi-
rally. had sisnified their acceptance as
! patrons Of the work. Sections of the
society had also been already formed
| on the other side of the channel One
section is based upon group of mem
bers of the Royal Society of the British
Academy, another section is composed
OF the great representatives of finance,
industry and commerce. a third section
| is composed of publicists. includine
Nine. Mutt, editor. at London. charged
| with the propaganda and relations with
France.
NJ. Alfassa, civil mining engineer,
said that on both sides of the channel
there would be studies
| Mutual made of the means to
c.,. adapt conditions and re-
o'uuieS' sources to the profound
transforms ton of the economical con-
ditions of the world resulting from the
most frightful upheaval which the
| world had ever suffered.
The English recognized In all loyalty
the particular sacrifices France had
made in order to assure their common
success, and England recognized the
| special rights which these sacrifices
conferred. There was familiar adage
| that said. HE who demands nothing
| receives nothing" 1t was for France
| a duty to affirm her rights in a precise