Arizona republican., 1921-11-22
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emotional plea for national security pronounced by Premier Briand, France informed the arms confer ence today that however deeply she might be moved by the call to tighten the burdens of armaments, she dared not destroy the effectiveness of her army while the situatio-- in Europe remains what 1t is-
 Summoning to the effort all the dynamic force of his eloquence, the strong man of France" held the rapt attention of the conference for an hour as he recounted the perils that beset his people. He declared the old imperialistic party of Germany still was covertly teaching the re- ligion of war and hoping to turn to it's advantage at the very door of France seven millions of men trained in the use of arms, while beyond lay bolshevism, with her millions stir ring in an unrest whose final course none could predict
 Rv one means or another. he said, Germany had brought under arms and was maintaining in state of preparedness at least 250,000 men. War material, he declared, would not long furnish serious problem Tor the German nation, should 1t decide again to make war. The present German government he credited with the most pacific of intentions. but the weakness of its tenure. he as- serted, was apparent to any one who had watched closely developments of the last few nlontf.
 Pledges Britain's Aid
 When the premier concluded. A. J Balfour responded for Great Britain with a virtual pledge of British sup port should their civilization be again threatened as it was In 1914. For the United States, Secretary Hughes de clared the plea of France never fel on deaf ears in America. and Italy and Belgium added their word or ap- preciation for the situation Of the French. Admiral Baron Kato ex- pressed the profound sympathy ol Japan for the declarations of Premier Briand and asserted that for them selves the Japanese desired to main tain on land only such military forces as seemed necessary for national se- curity and maintenance of order within.'
 Both Balfour and Baron Kato sug- gested that the days developments seemed to indicate any limitation oi land armament would be difficult tt establish, and althou~h the subject was referred to a committee or tht whole for consideration, there wal apparent no incliHation to hasten dis cussion of details. It would not sur prise some delegates if the armament negotiations simmered down to al effort merely to agree on genera statement of policy.
 Detailed figures on the present and proposed military strength of France
 &., sox- E,~f and's address, but tonight he ex- plained that his allusions to contem- plated reductions forecast future strength of 375,O00 regulars as against 800 000 now under arms. This would be accomplished, he said. by keepins only one and half "classes'' in train ing, whereas at present there are twt full aclasses" and the existing law authorizes three.
 If any one asks us to go further, he said in conclusion, T shall hay to answer clearly and definitely tha it would be impossible for us to d it without exposing ourselves to most serious danger"
 Briand's Address
 The official interpretation of tn address of Premier Briand of Franc follows:
 
 that I, as a delegate of France, shoul feel moved when rising to speak fror this full-sounding platform, whenc every word that is said goes to tn attentive and anxious ear of tn world.
 q wish to thank my colleagues ( the conference who, on the openin of this public meeting, So kindly al lowed me to speak as the represents tive of my country.
 T shall endeavor to make 1t appea To your eyes and to the eyes of th world with it's true genuine face, as Is; that will show you that she ready, and I might say perhaps mol ready than any other country, to d rect her attention and her earne. will to whatever steps may l thought desirable in order to insul final peace for the world. Nothir for my colleagues and myself wou be more pleasant than to be abol to tell you this: We bring here sacr fices to the fullest extent possibl We have our own security insure We lay down arms. We should be happy to be able to make that gestu to participate in the final disarm; ment of the world. Unfortunately V cannot speak in this way. I say als unfortunately, we have not the rig to do so. I shall briefly explain lat for what reasons. I shall tell you f France that she wants to make peaC If you want to make peace the must be two people, yourself and t neighbor opposite. To make pea I am speaking, of course, land armament it is T lsufficient to reduce effectives al decrease war material. That is t