Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-04
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A. French Parliament Before.
It IS to Become Effective.
and In Force,

Paris, Wednesday, July > (by the
Associated Press) The tests of the
agreements between France and the
United States and France and Great
Britain were given out by the foreign
office late tonight. The agreement
with the United States cites articles
of the peace treaty prohibiting Ger
many from fortifyinE either the right
or left bank Of the Rhine or assem-
bling forces within thirty miles east
of the Rhine and provides, in case
these provisions do not assure France
proper security, and protection, United
States is bound TO come Immediately
to the aid of France if any unprovok-
ed act of aggression is made against
her by Germany
1t is provided that the treaty shall
be submitted to the council of the
league of nations which shall decide
whether to recognize it as an engage
ment in conformity with the league
covenant and also provides that the
treaty shall he submitted to the Unit
ed States senate and the French par
lament for approval
Text OF Treaty.
The text of the treaty follows:
considering that the United
States of America and the govern
ment of the French republic are
equally animated by a desire to main
tain the peace Of the world, so hap
PLY restored by the treaty signed at
Versailles on June 2S, which put an
end to the war begun by the aggres-
sion of the German empire and termi-
mated by the defeat of that power and
Considering that the United States
Of America and the government of
the French republic. fully convinced
that an unproVoked aggression direct
ed by Germany against France would
not only violate at the same time the
letter and spirit of the Versailles
treaty to which the United States and
France are parties, thus exposing
France anew to the intolerable burden
of unproyoked war but that such az
grcssion on the part of Germany
would constitute an act rcputed by
the treaty of Versailles as being
against all the powers sgnatoy TO
the treaty and calculated to trouble
the peace of the world, involving in
evitably and directly the states of Eu-
roupe, and indirectly the entire world
as experience has amply and unhap-
PLY demonstrated, and
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of America and the government of the
French republic apprehend that the
stipulations concerning the left bank
of the Rhine cannot assure immedl-
ately to France, on one hand, and to
the United States on the other, as
signatory powers to the treaty of Ner-
sailles. approx riate security and pro-
lection. Consequently the United
States of America and the govern
ment of the French republic having
decided to conclude a treaty TO realize
these necessary ends. Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States of
America, and Robert Lansing. secre-
tary of state. specially authorized to
that end by the president of the Unit
ed States of America. and Georges
Clemcnceau, president of the council
of ministers and minister of war, and
Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign
affairs, specially authorized to that
end by Raymond Poincare, president
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