The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-24

former army men, Premier BRAND |
said, Germany had grouped together
its men available for military service
ain marvellous and ingenious way"
Former combataut associations were
formed in Germany, he continued, and
marshalled on occasional military an
niversaries.
Mobilize Quickly.
an Upper Silesia, in a few weeks"
he continued, almost in a few days,
there were about 10000 men ready with
machine guns and rifles. These are
facts, gentlemen. am not inventing
them and bringing them here to make
my case better. In few weeks or
perhaps in few days, Germany would
begin to raise 100000 or 100000
men" The premier then put the case
up to America.
Suppose that by your side," he said,
"there was nation that for years had
been in bloody conflict with you. Sup
pose this nation should feel that she
was ready to resume the struggle, when
she had the material. Would you close
your eyes and turn away? Would you
not desire to do everything in your
power to safeguard your life, your
honor? Would you do anything to
weaken yourself? No! France does
not exaggerate. She is only watching
and waiting"
The question of war materials then
was discussed by Premier BRAND, who
said it was problem that could easily
be solved.
''You have SEEM" he said, chow
quickly enormous armies have come
over to US and fought by our side.
What is Germany but vast country
of industry? Everything is ready in
Germany, the plans, the design, the
capital, everything to insure manufac-
ture of machine guns, rifles and artil-
lery. Great captains Of industry have
bought concerns in Scandinavia and
other parts of Europe. 1t is easy
enough to fabricate guns when you
have the material. 1t would be diff
cult to lay down a capital ship without
the world knowing it, but the guns, the
rifles, they can be manufactured and
cannot be controlled by any measure
Of certainty"
| L IuSSId DI6AkMASu NY 1N@f0kGOht~
| The French premier pointed out that
Prussia had been disarmed by Napoleon
and added: "But she found her place
on the battle field. How could we for
get that? They often say that the
French are frivolous, that when danger
| is past we turn our minds away. But
we do not forget the lessons Of the war.
Too many homes are in mourning. Too
many men are in the streets. Even if
we wanted to forget, we could not"
Declaring France must protect her
self. M. BRAND asked:
"What about the rest of Europe ?
Apparently it is at peace. But there
are certain volumns of smoke which
indicate that the fire has not been ex-
tinguished. I dare say this: The fire
is smouldering and if France had not
had an army, war would have broken
out again.
"How about Russia? Millions of men
there actually are boiling over with an
archy. They have big army. Who
can say what will happen there? A
year and a half ago Russia tried to
rush through Poland and then had a
terrible anxious hour. If the barrier
had not been good, where would France
and the rest of Europe be now?"
Russia" Mr.. BRAND said, could not
be considered negligible quantity for
she retained the power to mobilize
100000 men. He asked what would
become of France if the bolsheviks
should join the Germans. What Ger
many's intentions were toyards Russia
said BRAND, no one could tell. He
emphasized the present unrest in Ger
many and efforts to build up bolshevik
sentiment there.
France Must Be Able to Live.
"There are so many problems we dc
not know how to turn. But the great
est problem of all is that we must be
able to live. Thanks to our allies, we
have been able to insure life and lib.
erty. You would feel the weight OF
my argum ent if you realized that we
are face to face with terribly serious
condition. There is no threat Of wal
and yet we should not assume that il
is right to ignore danger altogether"
after the armistice;", BRAND said
Trance began to demobilize as rapidly
as possible and the period of enforced
military service was reduced from 8. tt
: 2 years. The result was to reduce the
three military classes to two. Now
France proposed further restrictions 81
: that her army soon would be reduced
to half its former strength"
"The government" he continued
"however, reduced the army to two
, classes, aside from the troops in tn,
French colonies and in few days the
plans provide for further reduction
to one class.
at is quite g rtain the government
!, will further reduce service to one elias,
and the republican French army will
be reduced by half. But if there shoul,
come a suggestion for further reduc
ton, it would be impossible for III
without exposing ourselves to the mos
serious dancer.
France had need to feel the assur
! ance of the moral support of her re
!. cent allies in the war" Reiteratini
: Frances devotion to peace, he declares
, the day had not yet come when tota
land disarmament was possible.
:, Expressing confidence that the worl
, would understand from his exposition
, the real situation and motives o
! France because nothing could be NOR