New-York tribune., 1918-11-09
I ardieu Asks America to
Help France to Her Feet
Describes Pg ght of Republic Which Has Lost 2 500 900 O
Her Best Manhood and Whose Industries Have Been
Wrecked by Foe-Wants Yankee Soldiers to Aid

Andre laroieu. newly appointed
Minister o. franco American War Al
fairs in the French Cabinet, Who was
the guest last night of the Association
ef Foreign Press Corresp nueuts il. the
United States at reception at the
Hotel Plaza, appealed for American
help in reblilding France and got a
hearty acknowledgment of the respon e
sibility. When he ceased speaking his
hearers responded to his closing words
of confidence that the United States
could be relied upon with cries of
you're right"
Melville Z. Stone, who followed Mr.
Tardieu. declared that it was not even
necessary to put the appeal in words (;
that it was not an appeal for aid but
debt which was to be paid
You have made an appeal to US
said Mr.. Stone. at was all unneces-
sary. America is the child Of France
America owes to you of France and
England debt which we can never re-
pay. You have fought our battles and
all that we ask to do is, with Gods
help, to pay some Of that debt tc
you
Against lnregulated Trade
After-war problems will only b.
solved, Dr.. Nicholas Murray Butle.
said, if the world never returns to tn,
days of "unregulated international com
petition"
You have set before US" he said
some of the sterner realities of war
We now come, or soon will come. to th
point where the war will be technical,
over and we will face the problem
that Mr.. Tardieu has summarized. W
Will conquer them only if the worl
never goes back to the old state of TN
regulated international competition.
"1hc reason we won the war was be
cause the principle underlying the ia
nous Sherman act had been put int,
political museum. II we mad no
done so the war would have been wor
by our enemies. The free world vii
have to remain combined to face til,
problems of reconstruction"
kilograms from Jules Jusserand
French Ambassador, and others wht
were unable to be present were rea,
by Percy S. Bullen, secretary of tn,
association. Frank Dilnot. it's presi
dent, introduced the guest of th
evening.
France Has Lost 100000
NJ. Turdeu said in part:
France has lost 100000 men. Som
are dead, some manned, some have re
turned sick and incapacitated fror
German prisons. Whether they be los
altogether, whether their workin
capacity be permanently reduced, the
will not participate in this reconstruc
tion.
"The fifteenth part of our people /
missing at the very time we need al
our material and moral forces in orde
to build up our life again.
"The younger, stronger part Of ou
nation, the flower of France, has die
on the battletields. Our country ba
been bcreft of its most precious re
sources.
Our war epenses, 2o,ooo,ooo, 90
francs, are weighing heavily on ou
shoulders. To pay off this debt ther
are at hand only such limited resource
as invasion has left us. The terri
tories which have been under Germa
occupation for four years were tn
wealthiest part of France. Their are
did not exceed per cent of the Who'll
country, They paid, however. 25 pc
cent of the sum total Of our taxes.
The industrial! disaster is complet
The districts occupied by the German