The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-03
VIVIANI APPLAUDS
CABINET DECISION
|. ON GERMANS DEBT
Stirs Enthusiasm at Plaza
Hotel Banquet by Prais-
ing Harding's Stand.
CALUMNIES REFUTED
Propaganda to Cause Break
Between France and I. s.
Sternly Deprecated.
JUSSERAND DENIES LIES
Congratulates Country on Big
All-American Meeting in
Madison Square.
CALUMNIES REFUTED
JUsSERAND DENIES LIES

Rene viviani, French Envoy Extraor-
binary to the United States in an
address before the Federation Of the
French Alliance of the United States
and Canada at luncheon in the Plaza
Hotel yesterday combated the Ger
man propaganda France believes has
been deliberately undertaken to gain
American sympathy for reduced in
IDENTITIES. He also treasured the
American people that France. far from
seeking remission Of her part Of the
allied debt, intended to pay in full as
soon as she was able.
M. Viviani's sentiments were in
dorsed enthusiastically by Ambassador
Jusserand, who took occasion in his
Introductory remarks to congratulate
the American people and New York In
particular on the recent American
meeting in Madison Square Garden. 1t
was a fitting answer, he said, to the
"perfidious Instructors" who were try
ing to destroy the friendship between
France and the United States
The luncheon was attended by up
ward of 800 persons. At the guest
the French Ambassador were Frank
d. Pavey. general vice-president OF the
Federation of the French Alliance, who
represented the president, Lee Roy
NH L. To-. Do vfu N
White, a member Of the American
Peace Commission: M. Gonzalve De-
saulniers. Canadian vice-president Of
the alliance; Judge John c. Knox, Dr.
Marcel Enecht. secretary to M viviani;
Justice Victor J. Bowling, Judge Edwin
L. Garvin, William d. Guthrie, Justice
Frank C. Laughlin. Frederick Cunliffe-
Owen. NJ. LucIen Jouvaud, James w.
Gerard. M. CASTOR Liebert, French
Consul-General; George w. Wicker
sham, NJ. Stepnane Lausanne, ex-Judge
Alton B. Parker. M. Charles De F. de
Fontnouvelles. Judge Julius M. Mayer,
Henry w. Taft. Jusice Samuel Green
baum and NJ. Albert Blum.
At the finish Of his address M. yivi-
ami invested vice-President Pavey and
M. Desaulniers with the insignia of
Knights OF the Legion OF Honor, which
recently had been conferred upon them
by the French Government.
Warm Tribute to Jusserand.
NJ. viviani began his address with
warm tribute to Ambassador Jusse-
rand. who. he said, had to an unusual
degree won his way into the hearts
Of the American people. He has, NJ.
viviani said. established in the minds
OF the American people an appreciation
of the ideals Of France and done 1t
without resort to such propaganda
tactics as Germany had employed. He
was glad that NJ. Jusserand had lived
to see the accomplishment OF his great
task after eighteen years OF service.
VI. viviani then compared the France
of 1870 with the France Of to-day. In
1870, he said. France also was the vic
tim of German calumnies.
But look at her." the speaker ex-
claimed. she Is stili marching toward
her destiny. We are looking toward
the sky, although France has bled with
her veins open. But when France puts
her signature to treaty she Ia ready
to give the blood Of her sons to keep tho
oath. And she IL ready 70 give the gold
of her sons to keep her obligations.
What 90 we asf7
I'VE ask not even the war expenses
Of 1871, which we paid when we were
defeated. We ask four billion francs a
year to pay the pensions for the widows
and the orphans Of our dead. and we
ask the restoration Of our devastated