Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-01-18
BRAND SAYS
he WILL GIVE
SUPPORT FOR
D|SARM|NG
INDICATES THAT MINISTRY is
FIRM INMAKING GERMANY
PAY TO FULL
RECITES FABLE
TO ILLUSTRATE
Not a Hare to Attempt PacifcatiOn,
But Prefers Tortoise Method
Gives Views to U. S.
By John DeGandt.

United Press Staff Correspondent.
Copyright 1921 by the United Press.
Paris, Jan. 18-France is ready to
support any reasonable project de-
signed to bring about a regime Of
justice and peace throughout the
world, Aristide BRAND, the new pre-
mier, declared today in an interview
granted the United Press.
This interview, the first given by
BRAND since he took the premier
ship, was considered especially I'M
portant in view of the present agita-
tion for disarmament.
BRAND, however, indicated his
ministry would be firm in compelling
Germany to make full reparation for
war damages.
81 am resolutely pacifst," he de-
clared. 81 will support with all my
efforts any organization or project
susceptible of gathering all the good
will of the world so as to establish,
little by little, in a serious and dura-
ble manner; regime of peace and
justice between nations.
"It isn't the people who ignore the
necessary steps who most quickly
reach the goal"
BRAND then related the Hare and
tortoise fable to explain his idea of
attaining real peace.
Il am not hare" he asserted.
Not Worried Our Cabinet.
The veteran French statesman,
several times premier and accustom-
ed to the difficulties of forming an
acceptable cabinet, received the cor
respondent with no trace of worry
over the problem which will be be
decided today when the French
chamber is to accept or reject his
cabinet.
The statement given the United
Press was accepted as part of the
platform" he was later to enunciate
in presenting his selections to the
chamber.
1.-TWO matters will occupy my
mind" BRAND said in beginning
These are disarmament and repa-
ration
He insisted that Germany must be
str pped Of all armament to relieve
France Of the danger of attack.
"S.nce the establishment of third
republic, France has been pacific" he
declared.
eve have not provoked war; we
have been subjected to it. The re-
gime of armed peace, which was
bound to provoke war, was imposed
by whom? By France? No, but sure
ly by Germany.
at was Germany's Kaiser who
menaced US with his dry
powder aid his sharpened sword.
81 do not deny the profound po-
litical change which has been eff
fected in our former enemies. They
became democratic-but no true
Democrat can be made in one day.
1t is necessary to educate them and
in case the education should not be
we would face the risk Of
being led into militariStic intrigues.
France and even the whole would
1t is to the latters interest-both
must demand Germany's disarma-
ment. Furthermore, if the Demo-
cratic Transformation of the Ger
man people is sincere, cannot see
in what respect this measure will
them"
German aggression, he declared,
had devastated seven departments
and destroyed whole cities" and the
"most elementary justice demands
Germany pay at her own expense for
the disasters she caused"
eve might repeat Attila's words"
he said, "There where the German
sword passed, the grass no longer
grows" { VI