Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-24
FRANCE MAY HAVE
To MAKE ANOTHER
PACT WITH BERLIN
nv 'rste Dozn' F7ouPot.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co
(The New York World,)
Especial Gable Dispatch.)


| Paris, Nov, 22.-The newly elected
French assembly has before it the
possibility of negotiating a new treaty
with Germany. The assembly as elect
ed must support the treaty as ii stands,
and the restrictions placed by the
United States materially change he
treaty according to the French view
point. The restrictions regarding ar
ticle X,sto the moderate French view,
nullify the treaty and bring the whole
situation back to the point before
President Wilson came to Europe.
From a French statesman rising
rapidly in prominence VINO is closely
connected with America and President
Wilson | get the following viewpoint,
which will unquestionably prevail in
the new assembly when it convenes
on December g. He said France and
England had agreed before the arrival
of Mr.. Wilson that it was necessary
to hold the left bank of the Rhine
and separate the Rhine people from
Prussia.
The Old Arrangement.
Belgium was to go to Cologne and
France to hold the rest of the river
to Switzerland, with wide bridge
heads on the right bank. The Rhine
country was to be divided into buffer
states, making France and Belgium
safe against invasion if Germany had
another attack of megalomania like
that of 1914.
The agreement was already iron
clad when Mr.. Wilson reached Erope
and convinced the French and Brit
ish statesmen that league of nations
was more effective to keep peace, and
gradually induced European statesmen
to accept treaty basis which limited
occupation of the Rhine for indemni-
ty purposes but made it sufficiently
long to give the league of nations q
chance to become living reality, so
that the French troops could safely
withdraw from the Rhine, regardless
of what the political changes were in
Germany.
The French always suspected Ger
many would become her reactionary
old self again as soon as she recovered
from defeat, but thought'the danger
point could be passed within fifteen
years with the new era in interna
tional relations. To accomplish this
they counted absolutely on the United
States They regarded the league of /
nations only safe if the United States
continued to maintain the place in
world politics it showed when it en-
tered the war
Faith i'm Wilson.
They had implicit faith in Mr.. Will |
son, and have yet but see that the
senate has undermined the presidents !
position. The new French assembly
will thus be faced with a different sit
uation from that when the peace trea-
ty is signed. The assembly will have
to accept the senates word that
France cannot rely on the United
States to uphold the position of Amer
ica when she signed the treaty.
This being the case, the assembly
must consider means to re-establish
French safety without counting abso-
lutely on the league of nations. A new
treaty with Germany, forcing Ger
many to relinquish all claim to the
Rhine provinces and establishing a
buffer republic economically allied to
France, will be the trend of this pol
icy.
The assembly was elected in support
of the treaty as written, not as modi-
fled by the senate, and will be expect
ed to protect French interests before
everything.
There is little press comment on the
senate's action, partly on account of
the newspaper strike, which contin-
ues, and also because the editorials
written ~ the various newspapers in
the single organ at the present time
being published still discuss the cleo
ton results,