New-York tribune., 1920-11-08
FOch Assails
Cle1nenceau's
Peace Terms
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be stopped, but they will be continued
with even greater intensity. / have
given these orders
81 had sent word to all generals to
accentuate their offensive. They had
replied: You can count on us. Moth
ing shall stop u.s.
Every one knows of the German
revolution and all that has happened in
Berlin.
at last the night of the 11th-12th
arrived. That night I slept only one
hour, from II to l o'clock. At $3.50
everything was signed. At I left for
Paris and at 9 was in Clemenccau's
Cabinet meeting"
Marshal Foch continued:
II can say to-day that the German
armistice fully accomplished its ends
and that we could have concluded it, no
matter what the peace. But as for the
peace that was actually made, | have
expressed my disapproval of it pub
licly and in writing. My objection to
1t is, first. that it does not provide
France with her only good military
frontier, which is the Rhine. and sec
ond that it does not guarantee us the
occupation Of German territory until
the treaty is executed
Wouldn't Hear Him
IL wrote three notes to Clemenceau
and talked 90 him many times. At the
beginning of April l asked to be heard
by the French delegation. Clelnenceau
replied that there was nothing for me
to say. then asked to speak before
the Cabinet. lie couldn't refuse me
this. l came and placed a note in the
hands of each individual minister. I
developed at length my point of view.
| asked for a process verbal, and this
was refused. All the ministers re-
manned silent under Clemenceau's eve
like children. Only Poincare spoke IN
my favor. After this I was told ! could
go, and | was not admitted to their
discussion. On leaving, | said to Tar
dieu:
France will never understand how
from out of a victory there has come a
failure. If one day we have to 90 to
the high court, | have clear con-
science and | have my papers in order
II again spoke solemnly at the mo-
ment when the Allies received copies
OF the treaty, which had been finished
during the previous night. gave my
opinions, and no one answered me-
After the seancc | said to Clemenceau:
What's your reply" He palavered for
few moments with President Wilson
and Premier Lloyd George around a
tea CaDlc, and then he SAID to me: Our
answer to YOU is that we have no reply
to make | was furious. said to him:
i shall not GO to Versailles tomorrow
do not wish to be associated with q
treaty which | repudiatc.'
"And yet" concluded Foch, in a
philosophical tone, u went to Yer
sailles. | thought I had no right to
leave the Allied governments to pre-
sent themselves before the Germans
without the chief of their armies being
present. l didn't have the courage"
In making his charges, Tardieu re-
produced documents describing the
final scene at Senlis. when Foch con-
suited the opinion of the Allied gen
erals regarding the terms to be made
to Germany. Tardicu's article declares
that Premier Clemenceau followed abb
solutely the advice Of the military
leaders and it permits the reader to
deducc that if continuation of the
war would have benefited France. Foch
is to blame for not continuing it,
1t is understood that although Mar
shall Foch does not dispute the au-
thenticity Of the documents adduced by
Tardieu from the official records. he
does object to the manner in which