Arizona republican., 1920-03-16
TIE WITH
 IL. {. URGED BY
 FRENCHPREM|ER
MiIlerand Says the Two Ma tions Must Be Best of Friends-France Wants No Charity, But Simply Un d ersta a n d i n g and Friendship.
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


 PARIS. March 15.-Premier Mile rand today put aside the German crisis long enough to discuss relations be- tween France and the United states and conditions of internal credit He said to a representative of The Asso- ciated Press:
 France and the United States must continue the close friendship which al- ways has been maintained. No fleet ing misunderstanding must be allowed to trouble their relations. The sooner misconceptions are dfssipated the better.
 sIt appears to me an opportune time to recall to cur friends. the United States. that France is not asking for charity The greater part of money the common interest of all civilized countries-a fact which might form the basis of a special consideration. but such is not our intention.
 we cont request cancellation of our debts We only ask time to breath and recover our strength after four and a., half years of exhausting war. Our propositions are those which any debtor would feel right in making in the interest of both himself and his creditors"
 The Exchange Question
 The premier referred to the rufnors fluctuations in exchange. which he held would be aggravated rather than pal Hated through measures proposed to France by those not taking sufficient account of interior conditions.
 'Tf France is obliged to meet her obli- gations abroad at the present rate Of exchange she would be forced to pay two and 2 half times what she owes - he continued. "Thus, after spending for the common good 20.000. 900, ,oe0 francs borrowed from her friends. she would have to pay 45.000, 100000 francs as Frances. premium to the same friends.
 "we have given our blood. we have given our money: To ask us now to give more than double our debt is an anomaly that can not fail to strike the most impartial judges
 After mentioning the suggestion made by the United States that France could raise the value of the franc by increasing expectations, the premier said that the questions appeared to be imperfectly understood by the Ameri- can people.
 Tells of Manufacturing Handicap
 We ask nothing better than in- creased exports. We must first, how ever manufac cture, and we can't make the things for foreign trade until we have factories in which to manufacture them. Do our American friends lose sight of the extent of the devastation, of the richest part of our territory; do they forget that we are still partly paralyzed and that it will require years to recuperate our wasted manpower and restore the former flourishing manufacturing centers?
 "The war cost us 600.0o0 industrial workers 600,0O0 of our buildings were destroyed: regions were ruined which in 1913 gave us 94 per cent of our wool, 90 per cent of our linen thread; % per cent of our minerals. S3 per cent of our pig iron, 70 per cent of our sugar and 53 per cent of our coal.
 "The war wasted our railroaGs to an unimaginable extent. Thirty per cent of ou- merchant fleet was sunR and our wheat production was diminished two thirds, involving a deficit of g., OO0, ,OG0,0O0 francs. The catastrophal changes were a blow to the very base (Continued on Page Three)