Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-22
CLEMENCEAU MAKES
PLEA TO AMERICA
TO ASSIST FRANCE
Tiger of France Makes His
First Appearance in
Tour of i. S.
Germany Prep airing for
New War, Famous States
man Warns in Talk
United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-America
wants to have finger in every pie
on the planet, Georges Clemenceau
said today, speaking to the members of
the New York Chamber of Commefce.
OF America, the tiger said:
"You have great influence in
Europe and very often / say and |
will repeat very often, that you do not
know your enormous power over
others, the enormous power that you
have over European minds.
eff you knew it, you would exert
more of it in the right direction and
you would help Europe and help your,
selves at the same time.
Clemenceau was apparently unper-
turbed by threat on his life received
today in a letter warning him to cease
his speeches.
"'There is nothing,' he said, "anv-
where on this planet that does not ir-
terest you and does not make you wish
to put a kind of American finger in
the pie.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22-America S
answer to Georges Clemenceau S plea
that she return to the side of France to
preserve world peace was conveyed to
the "father of victory today i'll re-
ports on the first editorial comment
and other expressions of opinion on his
speech at the Metropolitan opera house
The tiger arose at 5:15, after his Wig
orous evening on thd platform and
after orders were issued that all com
ment on his appeal be gathered and put
i'm shape to be studied, he set about
his own address of last
night from English into French.
Clemenceau S speech, delivered be
fore an audience of four thousand, in
cluding many of America s best minds,
leaders in business, finance, politics and
other fields, was regarded as one of the
declarations on record con-
cerning international relations.
He warned that German mOnarchists,
such as Ludendorff and Hindenburg,
are preparing to overthrow the govern
ment and establish II monarchy-a pre-
Iude to further wars.
The Great War, he said, was as much
the affair of America as of France, but
theUnited States left before whole mat
ter was cleared up.
France has been disappointed in the
results of the peace, he said. IT Foch
had foreseen that Germany would pay
no reparations and would flout the Yer
sailles treaty he would have marched
on to Berlin, Clemenceau said, adding
that General Pershing would have gone
with him.
Pershing, Paderewski Present
Pershing sat on the platform. Pade
70 of
heard the speech from box. The audi
ence broke into applause frequently
during the address. The name of Wood
row Wilson was cheered for about a
minute. One man in the gallery who
and yelled, eyes, ycs,'
when Clemenceau asked whether any
one feared the French army was being
kept up for aggressive purposes, evok
ed chorus of "throw him out, but
the tiger talked right through the dis
turbance as if serenelv unconscious of
it.
The tiger undoubtedly scored great
personal triumph.
"You left after the contract was fin
ished and you said ''Execute it as you
may, - the old French patriot emphat
icallv declared of the United States.
''And you were wrong in that you
left without any proposal whatever.
"When people have been mixing
their blood am not speaking of the
goods of the world-but their own
blood on the field of battle; they have
no right to leave, if there is a differ
ence, without trying to adjust that diff
ference.