New-York tribune., 1922-11-22
Germany Arming for New
War, He Warns; Calls
America to Back Pact
She Helped to Make
Fears Alliance of
Turk With Soviet
GrnxncIS Ghnnr. oS Nl.kornrn
Crowds Cheer as Veteran
Statesman Pleads for
Preservation of Peace
By Boyden Sparkes


Turkey as her partners in the bloody
enterprise.
That is the message Georges Gle
rnenceau delivered last night to
America. Certain that death is soon
to pluck him by the sleeve, this old
man, Frances father of victory,
spoke from the stage of the Metro
politan Opera House as urgently as
in earlier days a wounded scout
might have warned settlers that the
Indians were going Oh the warpath.
The Tiger, his life nearly finished,
outlined defense. He suggested,
he pleaded, that the United States
renew conversations with Great
Britain and France, establish a plan
and then guarantee that plan. He
reminded that the treaty, the fruit
of victory, has not been executed.
No one, hearing him, could have be-
lieved there was any selfish purpose,
anything but sincerity-and anguish
i'm his mind when he exclaimed:
Says Germans Forge Arms
II tell you plainly, as I told Lloyd
George years before the war, they are
preparing war again. Don't you see
what is going on? Don't you read the
papers? Why, haven't you heard of
the treaty between the Turks and the
Germans and the Russians Look at
81 all this L,A@ -,
ssgn IN GergnF ny. Do yoa know that they
are manufacturing cannons by the hun
dseds, machine guns by the thousands2
Now, say, General Ludendorff and
| HiEdenburg are preparing war, civil
war, to crush the German democracy
II they can. Have you forgotten what
the Pruss!ans did after Jena--how
with $4,000 men they brought Napoleon
| down NOW it is the same game 1t
is written. It is confessed You know
the Turks have been our worst foes.
| WHY shonld you shut YOUR ewes ?"
General John J. Pershing, square
! Jawed and clad in a uniform of the
| same olIve-orab in which he led Amer
! lca's millions overseas, listened SOL
emniy in chair just behind the old
man of France. Paderewski. doubIv at
home in that temple of music and in
the company Of statesmen, leaned for
ward III MS chair in a pacterre box and
measured the menace in terms of
Polish liberty. Colonel Edward n.
4 House, one of those who signed for
the United States that unexecuted
treaty, stirred uncomfortably in
chair close by the Polish patriot.
Notables Fill Stage
The stage behind CIemenceau had
been set simply as IL FOR Creek play.
a tragedy, perhaps. Instead of actors
there we're nlea sn formal dress of
black and white cloaking, tha per-
sonalities of Frank L. Polk. Assistant
Secretar* of State during the war: :
Henry Morgenthau, who studied Tur-
key while an ambassador at the court
OF the Sultan: Paul Cravath, lawyer;
Royal S. Copeland, physician and Sena-s :.
tor-elect; John W. Davis, who lived
through the war at the Court of ST.
James's in London; there were states.
men, bankers, lawyers, and soldiers,
pershing wfs there and so was Major
General Robert Lee Bullard who
Helped drive the Germans back.
In front OF Clemenceap IN the nit.
where normally there il great or
chestra, were now men driving pencils
/ at furious speed TO catch the Old mans
message and relay it bepond the walls
OF the opera house to New York and
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them IN the orchestra chairs and in
galleries rising 20 the roof we're nearly
1900 men and women, an audience re-
cruited by the Council Of Foreign Re-
lations, and they listened with soiae-
thing of the intensity of those days
when the gray hordes of the Kaiser.
thirty mites of Paris, were pressing
closer.
Draped from the parterre boxes,
t6., i 1
Padercwski around the sweep of the
diamcnd horseshoe to the one occupied
BY Elihu Root, were the red. white and
blue flags of France and the United
| States. From the proscenium arch
hung more flags of the two countries
There were no other decorations. ex-,
cept the palms, oak leaves and chrysan-
themums- banked skillful about the
speakers table, to conceal the cane
| seated chair that had been placed there
for Nj. Clemenceau so that he might
conserve his energy, chair he seornad
to use.
Wears No Decorations
| 1t was not quite half-past eighe
O'Clock when General Pershinv. fol-
owed by an aide strobe on to the
platform. There was applause fer h m
and one or two cheers. A few minutes
later Nj. Clemencean, escorted by Mr.
Davis. who presided at the meeting,
entered from the right wing. He was
in evening clothes, unrclieved by any
one Of the score Of eiittering deeora-
tions he might have worn; and this
was by design. He wished to emrha~
size that he was there with no mare
official position than when he came
tifty-seyer years ago ssfresh from the
imperial jails of Napoleon ILL.,
There is no festher in my hat, no
embroidery on my sleeve. / am just a
plain man. he said little later
He bowed TO the spnlapse IN acknowl.
edgnient of the thousands who rose from
their seats TO pay MIN respect. He
!. bowed difYidertlv a. small hoy. hut
the ends Of his dropping white n,aR-