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many wants war; that he first me,
Lloyd George" said Clemenceau.
Nevertheless, he has not come tt
America ito abuse the Germans ol
anybody" Only when he was asked
by his countrymen ito make arrange
!! ments with Germany" he felt rorced
to reply. What is their signature
| worth? What is their paper worth?
He likened Germany to man whc
draws check without funds In
,, bank: They have been a great ma.
ton" he said, land they will be 8
great nation again. I am not opposed
to that, as long as they don't dis
member my nation"
Then. inserting a thought about
violation of oaths and violation oi
signatures" he asserted: There are
no exclusive differences between the
French and the Germans. But there
are differences between Germany and
the rest of the world.
For the rest of the world live In
good faith. They believe signature
and an engagement is signature
and an engagement, and man who
l leave it to you what to do"
Coming to the armistice. Clemen-
ceau said: "Now l want some OF
your attention, because it is q very
important point. and. In fact. some
thing like the foundation OF my rea-
soning."
THE fact is" he launched forth
that the United States had very
general and noble idea that. before
the war was over. we should all say
what we had made war for and what
we wanted. so that nobody could
ask for more than it thought of be-
fore.
And President Wilson came with
his commission. So We all discussed
and We al. agreed about the fourteen
points, which have become so well
known. and from that time the world
the Germans. every one knew tnat
on such conditions we would make
peace.
so that when the Germans said,
We agree on the fourteen points; we
mean exactly the fourteen points, we
had no choice but to accept the the
armistice that was proposed. The
whole world would have risen against
us if we had not accepted it."
SO, he said. the armistice was, In
fact, automatic"
An American Idea.
Most remarkable of all. "it was an
American idea that brought fresl-
dent Wilson to act as he did. con-
tinued the speaker. And tnence VIC
began to see the thing that Is no.
being considered in this country, as
far as 1 know-that the war was
yours as well as ours. You took your
share in it,
France lost IAN enormous number
of men," America "a comparatiFeiy
hn H.
small number because, the wal Civ
ed when it did.
America had a great share IN 1T all,
'fn the armistice, in the treaty and
all that followed.
For instance, in the armistice
there was line saying 'reparatlohs
a line in the fourteen points: There
was a line in the armistice tnat was
placed in the conditions Of peace tnat
| would not accept ana Col. HOUSE
agreed with me.
IN the armisttce the damages WI
IF that kind of peace is not as
sured we will go on l did not ASK
them to be executed, but / asked tnat
they begin to be executed. II we
had known that for three years .ne
thing that was guaranteed 10 US @
not coming to us We "ooi"
gone to Berlin"
Here the Tiger interrupted himSeii sen
70 saw: Il see my. dear friend "a
derewski. He won honor both IN the
field of art as we'll as in the peiltical
f;eld of his noble country. ne IL
here as a witness to these coi'oi''oA8
of peace" continuing: 80
. 1T was not only a question "
neace between France ana HernianS
We made something whlcn hopou.
speaks Of: although mar,ca 1T Is had had freed freed
1-G6 and now IN 1910 Sue
frnsd the whole of Europe-all
these people that had been put down
under the sceptres OF Germany
Austria and Russia.
Demands for Liberty.
"They began to breathe. xI,ne nes
were called to liberty. ana my trieao 81, u
Tsderewski could tell you Of the
! inoctacie we had around the table
! twentV-seyen states calling for JUS
tice. for liberty. u-ho,
Woodrow Wilson landed in taris
hands the woVia toWard him. He brought them
hane the thing that they had been
expecting. waiting for. praying 1or
"Paderewski could tell you that
when ne !" iISonl nan
Who brings justice, who brings the
right for man to live-le jour de
rloire est arrive!
You brought it. my friends. That
another one of those great oepts
that owe your country and tnat
everybody owes you.
"Rut. a people may be great one
dav. and small and mean another.
Under the terms of the armlstice'
declared the speaker, Europe be
came "the spectre Of all the wrongs
Of man against man. And some OF
them said that they were betrayed.
Won must understand this. OF course.
ENGLAND went to war for Engllsn
reasons and America for American
reasons. 1t was their duty to do
that. >. 49,. +h,+
she would have come if Belgium hadnt
been violated. That was great time
for a policy of isolation.
The fact is that England has always
T don't blame her-endeavored to be the
balancing power, preventing other
countries form becoming too strong.
You (America) left after the con-
tract was finished and you told us to
execute it as we might. You were wrong
in that you left without any proposal
whatever. When people have been mix
ing 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 difference.
without trying to adjust that difference.
Handicap Of France.
You broke all the organs Of eco
nomic solidarity. The circumstances
were that there seemed to be a great
market opened in Germany, maybe in
Russia. and France was handicapped.
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