Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-24
CLEMENCEAUS MESSAGE
Tiqef OF France Reviews Situation In
Europe.
AMERICA DOMINATES THE SITUATION
Says Militarsts Of Europe Are Plotting
Another War for the Overthrow ct
Democracy-Germany Making Can
non - Russo Turkish Combination
Serious Menace.


Serious Menace.
The militarists in Germany already
are preparing another war, George!
Clemenceau, war premier of France, de-
clared in New York Tuesday night in
the first address of his American tour.
Don't you read the newspaper" he
demanded Don't you know what thai
means"
The Tiger of France, speaking fer
vently before a packed house at tho
Metropolitan opera house, reviewed
the situation in Europe, pointing to ar
approachment of the Turks and Soviet
Russia as ominous war clouds.
In the meantime, he declared, Luden-
dorff ard other German mlitaristS
were planning a coup against the
democratic government.
Describing the present as time OF
greatest crisis" he urged that the
United States should renew conversa-
tions with France and England which,
without definitely committing this
country to any set program, would
present to German eyes picture o.
the three unpleasant folks who faced
her in the war.
He said sooner or later America
would have to interest herself in the
postwar affairs of Europe, because
she could not continue to be comfort
able and wealthy if Europe was covered
with blood.
He expressed hope that the United
States might establish a plan as to
what was to be done in carrying out
the terms of the peace treaty and join
with England and France in imposing
it on Germany.
Frank in Criticism.
He was frank in his criticism of
Americas postwar attitude, declaring
America had had large share in i'm
posing the peace terms and had dny
to see that they were enforced.
Challenging the worth of Germanys
signature to a treaty, the Tiger de-
clared that if France had known in
1918 that reparations would have been
unpaid four years later, she would
have gone on to Berlin.
The Tiger received a great burst of
applause for the assertion.
NJ. Clemenceau, who protested that
he came to America on no official mis-
sion but as a private citizen to pre-
sent the truth as he saw it, declared
that reparations was an American idea,
because President Wilson had come
forward with his famous IA points and
the armistice represented essentially
the American point of view. At men,
ton Of Woodrow Wilson there was
another great burst Of applause. EX-
pressing the hope that America could
find some way of renewing converse =
tions with France and England looking
toward enforcement of the peace
treaty, Clemenceau said:
Il don't want to speak of the league
Of nations. But I might, l migrt.''
The Tiger said he did not believe in
the league as a means of preventing
war, but he believed in it as a means
of arranging matters, deferring war
and giving people time to think.
"You have seen one Of the greatest
dramas in the world" he said.
The Greatest Crisis.
I'VE are now in the greatest crisis.
Nobody knows when it will end and
what effect European misery may have
on American prosperity"
He asked what America had made
war for and what she had gained. He
said America had come to the last
point where she was granted time to
think. No sacrifice was demanded of
her except the will to assert herself as
the people she had vanquished were
unable to do anything just at the pres
ent moment
NJ. Clemenceau, showing little sign
of fatigue, spoke for nearly an hour
and a half.
There was only one bit of disturb
ancc That was when a heckler in the
balcony screamed few words.
Put him out" came cries from va
rious parts Of the house.
The speaker never hailed, continuing
as if the heckler had been a mute. The
Tiger of France faced his first audi
ence on his tour of America to eXpound
his country's postwar needs.
To the strains of the Marseillaisc
and The Star Spangled Banner
Clemenceau, ofttimc premier of France
who now proclaims himself simple
"citoycn" stepped upon the stage OF
the Metropolitan opera house and
faced an audience that packed the huge
auditorium from orchestra circle tc
topmost gallery.
He entered the building by a side
entrance, lodging a crowd that would
have filled the auditorium severa
times over, and that, denied admit
tance, fingered anyhow in hope of get
ting a glimpse of the picturesque 81
year old statesman.
When he stepped from the wing!
there were cheers and cries of "Vivt
le Tiger" and "Vive Ia France" min.
gled with the more polite handclapping
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