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Paris, Feb. PA French
semi-official note issued after
the meeting of the conference
commission on a society Of ma
tons this morning says:
Tits reported that a great
step was made toward an
agreement, the American and
British delegates having de-
|cided to adopt the views Of
France regarding the creation
Of an international army and
fleet"
Paris, Feb. 1.-The French gov.
eminent formally presented to the
league of nations commission last
night an article increasing an inter-
national military force. The intro
duction Of this article in the society
of nations plan closely follows the
disclosure by Premier C-lemenceau
in his recent Interview with the AS
ISOLATED Press Of his conviction that
the league of nations must be sup
ported by the determination of each
nation entering into the agreement
to be willing to its tradi-
tional aloofness from other peoples
and willing to employ the national
strength outside its own country both
In time Of peace as well as under
the pressure of war; asi
The contention of Leon Bourgeois,
who presented the article in Ques-
tion, is that the international force
proposed must be of sufficient pro-
portions to- prevent Germany or any
other country from breaking the
peace, or, IL the peace we're broken,
to restore it promptly again by the
collective power.
M. Bourgeois abiding to the exist
ing condition in France as regards
Germany instead insisted that there
was grave danger confronting France
II an International force was not con-
stantly in being and organized for
instant action. The French view,
he indicated, was that a society Of
nations which cid not include a per
manent collective force might be a
beautiful experiment, perhaps, but
an experiment too great for a nation
to risk unless it had In addition de-
fensive, frontiers, sufficient to meet
n sudden shock.
1t was easy for the British ON the
other side of the ocean as there de-
feEsive frontier, he argued. to re-
gard too calmly the working Of a
league which did not provide for an
International force.
France however, being separated
rom Germany only by a geographical
line, must creeive the first shock II
Germany should decide to pass be-
yond her frontiers, and the German
shock, even with greatly limited ar
maments, might be so destructive.
according to the French view, that
France would never be able to re-
cover.
France with every trust and re-
Britain and the United States.
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have to wait many months before the
forces Of these nations could be
created, transported and placed In
M. Bourgeois is understood to have
compressed into his proposition the
deeply considered convictions OF
the French cabinet and its military
and legal advisors.
The contention OF those who do not
believe in a permanently organized
international army, these including
the American delegates, is that to
such an army with require
ments affecting several countries
which may become members of the
has difficulties in the way
not Of a character to be solved
quickly. They argue that the society
could be maintained effectively By
It's members being absolutely bound,
the moment the hostile movement
was made by any nation, to cooper
ate with their forces against the az
The idea is advanced by soma On
the delegates on the society Of nv
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