Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-19

Especial wireless Dispatch)
Paris Feb. 1S.--The parliament OF
France would refuse to ratity and the
people If France would rise against
any peace treaty that did not give TO
France the security 10 be found ohiy
in our possession of the lett bank oil
the Rhine: nor would ait be possible
for Frenchmen to accept a league OF
nations not capable OF protecting the
outposts of civilization, which a'e the
eastern frontiers Of France, with an
international armed force
In these words Henry Franklin
Pouillon, president Of the pariamen-
tarv commission for foreign affairs,
formulated for the readers OF tlle
Journal and World his conception of
the essential aims OF France AT inc
peace conference.
Disarmament thc ALTERNATIVE.
There is | grant YOU he added,
another possihr method for reas-.
suring the protection of France from
aggression and, with her the rest OF
the democratic world. That method
involves The complete disarmament or
Germany, supplemented by careful
restraint upon her power to arm Tor
many years
NJ. Franklin bOuillon avorred that
in the statement he spoke for an over
whelming majority Of his fellow Dep
uties and their electors. Laying g
orous stress on every word, he went
on:
1T took France nearly 100 years
to develop a truly democratic pollu-
cal philosophy, he observed, 'foW
can one expect the Germans VINO
have ALWAYS been the most bellicose
1nnNn(-
raCy. in a few months? The ascend
ancy gained at Weimar by men who
had steadfast|y supported the old
militaristic regime surely cannot he
denied: and certainly that cannot he
proclaimed as a sign of any deep
rootel reform among the German
people." In NJ Franklin Bouillon's
opinion. the allied watch on the
Rhine must he maintained for at least
five years, and possibly for ten or
twenty
Even after YOU have constructed
O buffer state west Of the Rhine he
said, you must safeguard this state
by military occupation Of the Rhine
bridgeheads until You have estab-
lishel Gcrmany's honesty of purpose
beyond shadow Of doubt.
Need 100000 Army.
There must he at least 100000
troops along the east bank Of the
Rhine, and they must ha Amerlcnn
and British, as we'll rs French We
cannot hear the burden single
handed. in a future war events would
move with terrific swiftnpss, France
danger one day would become Great
pritafn'a tho naXt day and America s
the day after that,
'Ccrfr~nted nv . hostile Germany,
numerically stronger because of her
union with Austrian Germans. and
more homogeneous - loss Of her
French. Polish ana possibly he" Dam
ish territories will have erad'cated
this non-German elements -- France
would he wiped out before the United
States or Great Britain could mobilize
a single soldier.
To-day end Cor manv venrs to
come your frontiers are in our coun-
trv, not in yours. G~r"any remains
9S per cent imperialisti". I'M she
can prove to us that she is 9S pcr
cent democratic she must he kent in
irons and deprived of all power TO
do evil
Must Be Kept. Mcck.
This will be hest for the Conn rs
+Nooe ea'vas in tho end. So long rs
they are weak they are rneoE, W.T.
out meekness how can they hop" to
Join the free peoples of the worlds
democracins ."
IN NJ. FrqnG'i7- pou IONS opinion
q erarrarr7ia should 10 ulocnd j"
Germany for the maintenance Of
order and to see that armament Is
etrict1,. li~ri+od He eova"elv criti
cises the Clemenceau government for
ite diffi6ancn il res1e"t to French
claims, saving the present govern
rneot rs well as its pred aces 7ors. had
Numbered in not messing the claims
to tho Saar vallev Simultaneously
with the demand for the return Of
Alsace-L Lorraine.
It was a hlnnder a'eo. he said. ~
acc@nt President Wilson's fourteen
points &C peace without irsistino unon
the restitution % the Saar country.
"Our claim to that rnr on - he SAL
'is not an annnxationist claim. II
falls under the head of both r"stit"-
ton and Of reparation. How is N"
wrecking Of our coal Iniros in France
10 he raraired 10 the Saa" miros are
left in tho h9n1s IF the wreckers?
Must G." Revc~d Rhine.
"Iot MS ccrade" the LEFT hawk of
the phine That is r""i0n hevord
the Frerch frontier Of 1874. Yet in
ono century France has suffered five
JnNtSl''H. am tdtn NJ ll' W SltlI W !
from tho provinces bounded on the
north ana east by the Rhine, on tho
south hv Lorraine and on the west by
Ho1l"-d
This territory viii continue ~
sorve tho ends of harha'ic invasion
r,,til il has hnen c'eansed forever Cf
Ce~,nann So16iars n'itta~-' hn'ia7
fortresses' and this cleansing process
-frust hn carried tn an ima"inarv zinc
cat distance of not less than fifteen
Hrnpas f~o~a tho Ph'no. on the east
bar, Of that river.
hTo other words. tho occuDat'on ~
ff1e Phina hridgehaads and of the II
hirterlard to the We 81 must be main
tanned nv eDtartn ava American
froars under ccn'rol Of the league
3nf natiors. until oublic oninior everv-
whera is convinced th"t Germ" ~
has def'riteiy laid aside the cut
ttreat knife and has donne4 the
white robes of the brotherhood OF
man. .
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