The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-02-10

Need Itr Help IN PI;Ce End
Val, CIeIG..GG:: { Ell VIsW.
S rs We CAN'T STAY AL0OF
French Premier Pays Tribute to
American Soldiers ard Points Out
Danger Still MenaciHg France.

Paris, Feb. 10.-"N bile l have Sa!d
that the war has been Won, it woutd
perhaps be more accurate 10 say that
there is a lull In the STORM said
George Clemenceau, the French pre-
mier. in an interview.
AT least" he ad,e.l. ''it is as VIII
to face squarely all the pc. 'bilit;c,;.
Although Germany has been he" n
m:litarily and has been la!:: l. lis.
armed, there sill remains, the pre-
mier pointed out, 81 chaotic but fruit
I'll Russia from which great help may
he drawn by the TeutonS." There
would be danger. he thought, OF a re
opening of the military debate if it
We're not for the assurance President
N;'.son voiced recently that whenever
France or any other free people is
llenaced the whole world will be ready
to vindicate its liberty.
In the society of nations, said the
premier, each nation must be willing
to renounce its traditional a!oofness
and be willing to employ the national
strength outside its own country, both
in war and in peace.
Premier Clemenceau warmly prais-
ed the help the American troops had
given in winning the war for democ-
racy and expressed disbelief that there
is a man in the American army of oc-
cupation who regrets that he fought
on the side of freedom" because he
has found more creature comforts In
Germany than in France
81 have lived in the United States
in my young and formentive days"
said Premier Clemenceau perhaps,
therefore, l may be INDUCED to say
Il few words to our allies on the other
side Of the Atlantic.
"The friendship Of our peoples
which has subsisted for century
and a half is very beautiful thing.
The like of it has never existed for
the same length of time between any
other two peoples The cordially,
cemented by our contact during the
war, must endure in closer measure
hereafter To this end our minds
must meet.
1.-The entrance Of America into tn;
great war was full of dramatic inter-
est. The application of national wide
Consumption without the slightest dis
turhance. the universal Self-denial to
supply us with food and all our re-
1uirements, the unity of purpose and
he amazing energy Of 110,000,O00 of
ncople of so varying and complex a
"haracter challenged our admiration
and gratitude in such fashion as no
one but ourselves can know
And now the war is Won. The
world is made safe for democracy.
for life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, as Jefferson said in the
american declaration Of independence
.nd the future is before US What
las it in store?
II am told that some Of these gal
ant American. soldiers, who lived in
renches. slept in dugouts and burrow-
ii in the mud in devastated and war
'Orn France, when they crossed the
Rhine and in an undevastated lane
found clean beds and baths. rather re-
,ret that they fought on the side of
'reedom and would rather have fought
on the side of the Germans.
81 do not believe it, l am sure
there is no American soldier who
loes not recognize that France, the
battlefield Of the war, could not give
him the comforts that Germany, un.
devastated, was able to. / do not and
will not believe so meanly a single
one of the brilliant warriors who
"ame from the states to our aid in
the great struggle for civilization
against savagery. 1t is incredible II
$ the tragedy of the war that de
vastated France could not give the
comforts that unbroken Germany
could
with the British army demobiliZed
she American army back home and
France isolated there might be a dan
ger of a reopening Of the military de
Nate by Germany which might embar
raSs us were it not FOR the assurance
which President Wilson gave us in
| the chamber of deputies the other day
Rat under the operat ionsof the league
# nations. whenever France or any
cher free people is threatened the
| whole. world will be Zready to vindcate
| its liberty so that there never shall
be any doubt or waiting surmise.'
"This has given us great solace
And so we bid the departing American
| soldiers God speed and haDpy return
TO their peaceful firesidos. Of course
a society of nations in which America
| and France enter must be supported
profoundly by the conviction of theil
| peoples and by DETERMINATION hi
each nation entering into the agree
ment to be willing to renounrn theil
| traditional aloofness from other PEG
pies and willing to employ the nation
al strength outside their own country
| 10Th in time of peace, us well as I'M
Ter the pressure of war"