The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-03-08
FRANCE IS misunderstood.

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The best that nved-a in whom competent
cowardy Judge declared could Find auwas put
death the behct OF ignorance and bgot which have been
the fruitful OF persecution and crucixion all
Recently the republic of France friend and ally in the days OF
revolution in the late has been the victim OF
eruces in this country and abroad "oer- -than-thou critics
who apparently have sought understand the French
position in the Washington conference have pored her in the
OF public opinion till many have believe that France
npeastc designs and the crowd of crucers ready be-
ese charge promptly forward do their work There
is doubt that large body OF honest American opinion has been
miscad regarding France her motives since inn
poant for correctly understand the policies of other nations
order to the right OF international relations
oeeve is worth while to seek to clear up msapprehension re-
gadng France which out of criticism OF her attitude in the
. conference We quote from the Outlook:
Has France obstructed the reduction Of land With
need Of army than either the British have of
navy France has proceeded to reduce her by third and
IS planning to reduce it by onchaf This plainly stated by
NJ BRAND the conference Because he pointed out
at the time that France nextdoor neghbo
people who had destroyed her industries and avaged her fields
she had need to be guard Americans jumped to the conclusion
did not listen to what NJ BRAND said The fact that France
in the OF danger has done quite much reduce
her America safety has done to limit her navy That
formal agreement for the limitation Of land
made at the conference due objection from France
but to the fact that several nations maintaining armies
footing particularly Germany and Russia not and could not
be represented that All great naval
at the conference therefore naval could be reached
Not all the great military nations represented therefore
agreement on land armament could not be reached.
France has been accused of Imperialism because alleged
she obsructed the limitation the of submarines France
did not do She did not demand the right build unlimited
number OF submarines She asked simply for the right build
equivalent OF thirty submarines OF three thousands each
eighteen submarines of five thousand each Because she
asks for the liberty doing this England refused put any
ton upon her submarine building France wanted simply
the right the that England the United
demanded is not likely that she will build the number Of
submarines size asked the liberty of building She NAV build
than eighteen submarines but they will certainly be OF
five thousand tons each probably few of three thousand
because she asked this Great Britain announced her refusal be
bound by any limitation auxiliary naval vessels Nevertheless
France has voluntarily announced sefmtaon without the
agreement of anybody else the 10000 which assigned
Britain II
10 say hat France wants submarines III order to them
Germany did as gratutous to the thing Of America
France has proved the contrary by cordially supporting the rule
against any use OF them commerce destroyers. ySa
In addition to this France Of her abandoned the
naval programme which she had started before the and
whcn she mad suspended because she was busy building for
an unprepared America as well for herself reduced her
voluntarily by one-ha and then accepted program
which gave her third the strength of the United States
though her colonial possessions both heispheres
equal to that of the United States and coastne
great the American If America we're proposing to
abandon all her included all other nations agreed
the French attitude might hard understand but America
maintaining navy practically three times that OF France it
any wonder that Fenchmen find hard understand the
american attitude toward France find hard understand
the attitude OF the Japanese and the Engman whose
tons against America often quoted?
France is not without fault but her fault is that Of the
mperast and the mlars France has apparently taken
TO reach the mind OF the ordinary American M Brands speech
at the conference eoquent but emphasized the things
Of its rhetoric the things that Americans needed There
spokesman for France the himself
understood by the majority of the correspondents there The
French seem to find hard to understand the processes
OF the peoples Of other lands and particularly the mental
of Americans Certainly the French have failed interpret
selves to the mind OF America Moreover suffers
politicians who bad When NJ BRAND spoke
he had to keep in mind not only the American public but those
French politicians The Americans who charge France
with imperialism would be better occupied deporng her bad
politics Perhaps might Judge France charitaby we
recognized that her fault which we have not alto
yether escaped ourselves
The professional opmst may have sweet words
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