The New York herald., 1922-11-30
Clemenceau Har tlly Convincing.


Wherever he goe In this country
NJ CLEMENcEAU finds fresh confirma-
tion Of the admiratic III and affection OF
the American peoples for himself, the
strong man and the distinguished
statesman. But, just as the people OF
this country have not been swayed by
NJ. CLEMENCEAU's clio 4uence from their
firm adherence to our traditional
policy of keeping ont Of permanent
foreign entanglemeu their cool
judgment is not accepting seriously
his alarmist warnin nigs Of another
German war in the n gar future.
And in the matter Of NJ. CLEMEN-
cEAu's recital at Chic ago. with spe-
cif1c instances, places: and dates. OF
what he calls proof of Germany's
secret preparations foc new war,
his list Of the German war material
is not convincing. His report of the
secret war material ei nbraces field
guns, machine guns. riff, IS, cartridges,
telegraph and telepho ne material,
bombs, bomb throweri,. automatic
pistols, magazine clips, miscellaneous
ammunition, gas masi ls, anti-air-
craft gun mounts, airpl 'ane motors,
haversacks, hand greM AIDES, bayo-
nets, pontoons, bridge bui lding equip
ment, &C.
But, aside from the n ct that the
quantities are inconseque ntial, these
military supplies. as the re port shows,
were found for the most art in very
public places, such. as 1vell known
munition factories, army barracks,
police barracks. municipal buildings,
schools, open aviation field S. &C. I'm
der the terms and condit ions Of the
armistice and the Treaty Of YER
sailles all such places ars subject to
regular inspection by the ssficers and
agents Of tho Allies.
It does not seem reasona 1le, in the
American way Of looking at plain
facts and clear situations. hat II the
German Government, the Qs rman peo-
pie or anybody wanted to manufac-
ture and conceal war m lterial In
quantity for use against II rance the
places selected for such sec 'et manu-
facture and storing would b the best
known places in Germany, places
regularly visited and exaa mined by
inspectors of the Allies.
American sentiment does not wish
Germany to become again great
military machine to the NJ enace or
world peace. precisely as american
sentiment does not wish Trance to
be such great military machine.
But American common sena . realizes
that there are in Germany large pop
ulation elements of unrest, large ele-
ments Of social disturbance that are
potential wreckers of Sta 'tes and
makers of European war.
The German police must be in a
position to preserve law a I'D order
In the local communities, and the
arms they require for this purpose
could be kept in no better p lace than
| In police barracks, where IL agents
OF the Allies can easily find and
count them as they have 1 pund and
counted them, as shown b Y the re-
ports M. CLEMENcEAU subm Its.
The Government troops n rust be In
position to resist revolut ion from
within as we'll as attack fl ON with
out by Russia or some 9th or people
that are In ferment OF dis,,rder and
aggression. and If the @, wernment
troops have their military equipment
and supplies where they are accessi-
BILE to the inspection Of ,he allied
Powers 1t would seem al IL such
arms and munitions were where the
allied Powers and the world that Is
for peace could wish the n to be.
Furthermore, American fnntiment
realizes that in the natural order OF
things the better way to preserve
peace between Germany an q France
is to remove the causes of war.