The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-07-04
ANGLO-AMERICAN-
FRENCH ALLIANCE
Text of the Agreement by Which
America and Britain Promise to
Protect France from the
TeutOn
ASSOCIATED Press)

texts of the agreements between
France and the United States and
France and Great Britain were given
out by the foreign Office late last
night. 1t is as follows:
considering that the United States
os America and the government Of
the French republic are equally ami
mated by a desire to maintain the
peace of the world, so happily restor-
ed by the treaty signed at Versailles
Oh June %, which put an end to the
war begun by the aggression of the
German empire and terminated by the
defeat of that power and fully con-
vinced that an unprovoked aggression
directed by Germany against France
would not only violate at the same
time the letter and spirit of the Ver-
sailles treaty to which the United
States and France are parties, thus
exposing France anew to the intol-
cradle burden of unprovoked war, but
that such aggression on the part of
Germany would constitute an act re-
pdted by the treaty of Versailles as
being against all the powers sigma
tory to the treaty and calculated to
trouble the peace of the world in
volving inevitably and didectly the
state of Europe and indirectly the en-
tire world as experience has amply
and unhappily demonstrated and,
considering that the United States
of America and the government of
the French republic apprehend that
the stipulations concerning the left
bank of the Rhine cannot assure i'm
mediately to France, on one hand and
to the United States on the other, as
signatory powers to the treaty of
Versailles, appropriate security and
protection,
consequently the United States of
America and the government of the
French republic having decided to
conclude treaty to realize these nee
essary ends, Woodrow Wilson, presi-
dent of the United States of America,
and Robert Lansing, secretary of
state, specially authorized to that end
by the president of the United States
of America and Georges Clemenceau,
president of the council of ministers
of war, and Stephen Pichon, minister
of foreign affairs, specially authoriz-
ed to that end by Raymond Poincare.
president of the French republic, have
agreed upon the following:
WHAT is AGREED UPON
"Article /. The following stipula-
tions concerning the left bank of the
Rhine, are contained in the peace
treaty signed with Germany at Yer
sailles June %. 1919, by the United
States of America, the government OF
the French republic and by the Brit
ish empire, among other powers:
"'Article XII. Germany is prohib.
iteed from maintaining or construct.
ing fortifcations either on the left
bank of the Rhine or on the right
bank west of a line running fifty
kilometers to the east of that river.
| "'XIII. In the area defined above
the maintenance and the assembly OF
armed forces, either permanently OF
temporarily and military maneuver'
of any kind as we'll as the upkeep Of
all permanent works for mobilization
are in the same way forbidden.
"'Article XIV. In case Germany
violates in any manner whatever the
provisions of Articles XII. and XIII.
she shall be regarded as committing 9
hostile act against the powers sigma
tory of the present treaty and a!
calculated to disturb the peace of the
world
"In case these stipulations shoulC
not assure Immediately to France ap
propriate security and protection the
United States of America shall bt
bound to come Immediately to her aiC
in case of any unprovoked act of ag
gression directed against her by Ger
many.
"Article ii. The present treaty
couched in terms analogous to thos'
of a treaty concluded on the same
date and to the same end between
Great Britain and the French repub
lie a copy of which is herein annexed
will not enter into force until tn,
moment when the latter is ratified.
"Article III. The present treat,
must be submitted to the council o
the society of nations and must b
recognized by the council deciding
occasion arises by majority, as an en-
gagement in conformity with tn
covenant of the society. 1t will remain
. in force until, upon demand of one o
the parties to the treaty, the council
deciding if occasion arises by a ma
jority finds that the society itself as
, sures sufficient protection.
"Article ". The present treat
shall before ratification be submitte
| to the chambers of the French parlia
!, n,nnt for annrnuaI and IL shall b