Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-21
BRAND INSISTS ON
ADEQUATE ARMY TO
PROTECT FRANCE
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'duced her army. Most OF her war
material Is destroyed. Why is II that
France keeps such considerable
armyY
"Some people think that France
must have some hidden thought II
has been said that France wanted to
establish in Europe n sort Of mill
tary supremacy. Probably this In the
most painful and cruel thing
Frcnchman could be told TO tell ,he
world that we have perndious inten-
tions and military designs is sad and
mos. disheartening.
IL don't want to be unjust, but we
have there one part OF Germany TINT
is for pence, a part who have had
enough of this war, who have had
enough OF war altogether, and who
want to settle down to the pursuits Of
industry and peace. That part Of
Germany we win do everything We
can To help.
"But there liz another Germany"
the premier continued with forcoful
gestures. There is a Germany that
has not changed her mind and for
whom the last war was not decision.
This Germany has kept the same oc-
cupations, the same ambitions. How
can we close our eyes to this? How
can we ignore tho conditions? More
than that, we have witnessed several
! attempts to return 10 certain state
of things"
Here Premier BRAND cited the royai
: attempts at coups d'etat. and quoted
from the book of General Ludendorff
whose teachings ha said. were fol-
lowed Icy the elite, professors and
writer's" of q part of Germany. NJ
Briand said he desired TO make *.
cerpts from Ludendorff a part of his
brief.
| After n long quotation from Luden.
! dorff, who referred 10 war as the cor.
nerstone OF all intelligent policies
and creation Of God, the premier
added:
There are the character Of word
used by the highest German authority
land after the war has caused tn,
death Of millions That is the sort o
thing that is being taught at the yer.
u door of France. How can. you expec
q France to close her eyes?'
On the material side, as contra ste
e e. the moral side, continued NJ. Briant
le Germany has AT her disposition no,
le many soldiers trained in the grea
> war. II would be possible to nobiliz
= the German people tomorrow, he at
OF serted. through the newly organize
" police" force consisting of officer
W and under officers Of the old army.
"a mot one word OF i/Ss true" es
claimed NJ. BRAND. pounding the tab
re with both fists. "If there is n countr
that wants peace with all our heart
believing in IL with her entire faitl
that country is France.
Since the armistice France ha
>, had to wait for realization of certal
m things. She has seen Germany hal
A. gle over her pledged word and II
ne terms she had signed. She has sec
te Germany refuse TO pay. The populs
re opinion is that France is impat tie.
IL but France has remained perfect
,ol calm"
yo Referring to the German positlo
vo Premier BRAND continued:
we have no hatred In our hear,
n She (France) viii use every mear
OF between Germany and herself, TO pr
ey vent a bloody recurrence But aft
no all we have no right TO forget "
'ts have no right TO weaken our positit
80 and give rise TO certain hopes by Of
u" weakness.
' All the recent instructions given
the minister OF war have reference
this police force. NJ. BRAND declare
and in addition, he said. Germany h
Os military groups under various pr
tense since the war. "An ultimatur
was necessary TO dissolve one of the
he groups recently discovered, he add,
IN. Within n few days in Silesia, Z
'e,lt premier added, force of 40 900 m,
or. with full military equipment. spru
Ial up at the call of the necessity T
fun force of fhe present German m
lly chinery. he estimated, would be 81
ng ficient 70 raise an army OF 6.000.O00
'ge 900, 600 men. The premier declaT
,n, his conviction tnat under such G
m cumstances no American citiz
mt would want France TO disarm.
He estimated that at least 25O.C
in Germans were receiving daily militia
lay Instructions with all the machinery I
lsh their mobilization at hand. The pr,
ar ent German prime minister. said
ty, BRAND. apparently was doing evel
thing to make effective the Versail
ose Treaty, but there We're many disqui
ion ing conditions threatening the stall
S Y of the present German governme
as We're evidenced by recent deyel,