The Washington herald., 1922-11-25
Declares American Aid Would
Go Far in Solving Near East
Problem and Curb Germans
DEFENDS BIG FRENCH ARMY
Charges Lloyd George and
Wilson Extended Protection,
and Then Deserted France
By HARRY L. ROGERS.
International NeNs Service.

International News Service.
BOSTON, Nov. "a. - Georges
Clemenceau, former premier OF
France, today threw off restraint
and fatty recommended that the
United States take an active
part in the Near East peace con.
ference at Lausanne.
WOULD SOLVE, PROBLEMS.
Such participation. he declared In
an address before 5000 persons late
this afternoon, would solve the Near
East problem and would serve no
tice on the Germans that they can,
not 60 further than a certain limit
In plotting against. the peace oi
"The Tigers" declaration was
made in response to criticisms made
in the United States Senate and
elsewhere that he, had been vague
an indefinite in his proposals for
American Intervention" in Europe
He said:
I don't want to tell the Amer.
leans how to run their own busi-
ness, but when they told me
should go further and be more
definite, I decided would do so.
not to interfere, but to just let
you know what / think.
There is a Lausanne confer.
ence. where England and France
are trying to agree with Italy.
Let the Yankee come. He will
be welcome. Will they give him
seat? They will give him an
arm chair.
Go there and you will meet the
Near Eastern question which has
caused trouble in the world for
the past 500 years. The presence
Of America in Europe again will
tell the Germans they can't go
further than a certain limit be-
cause there Is a moral and ma
terial power in the world to take
possession Of the world, not for
domination but for freedom.
TELLS OF SECRET PACT.
Clemenceau dwelt at length upon
what he characterized as a secret
agreement between Soviet Russia
Germany and Turkey. declaring it
combination which only England
France and America can break. He
warned that a Turkish invasion OF
Europe was not impossible.
He warned Russia is a power to
be feared in the future, and declared
the Russian peasant is peculiarly
susceptible to German propaganda.
Returning to his charge that
Germany is preparing for another
war, Clemenceau quoted what he
said were official reports showing
the Allied officials were constantly
finding stores of munitions which
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He reiterated his statement that
France was not militaristic. and
presented figures to show that
France spent less for her military
establishment in 1921 than Great
Britain, the United States or Japan.
He repeated that England and
the war came and that the French
bore the brunt of the first days OF
the struggle.
budget is five billion francs and
that military service is compul'
sorry for eighteen months, Glenn
enceau declared he would never
admit the right Of America or
Great Britain to dictate Frances
military strength, so long as
IDOSc " uC-
termine their own military and
naval strength.
The French. he continued, had
to have indemnities for their loss
Of five million soldiers killed or
wounded and for the destruction
Of a tenth Of their economic re.
sources in the north, and it was
only by means of an army that
the reparations could be exacted.
DEFENDS BLACK TROOPS.
Speaking of criticisms against
France for the use of black
troops. Clemenceau said the
United States, Great Britain and
Germany all had used black
troops. French colonials, he said
were quartered in French towns
and the people made no com.
plant. There are no longer
black troops in German occupied
territory. he said.
Clemenceau took occasion to an
swer criticisms that he demanded
too much from Germany. "In
France 1 am sometimes treated
badly. They say didn't ask
enough from Germany. Here they
tell me I asked too much. Ger.
many should have been made to
pay the entire cost of the war"
he declared, and was roundly ap-
plauded.
He reiteratec his charge that
Lloyd George had been responsible
for France losing 81 per cent of
the indemnities originally granted
her
SAYS U. s. DESERTED.
Asserting Germans always had
been a menace to France, he told
how he had demanded the Rhine
as a frontier and withdrew his
demand only when Lloyd George
and Woodrow Wilson promised to
guarantee Frances safety. Amer.
lea deserted France, he declared,
without offering any substitute pro.
posal.
Clemenceau's speech this after.
noon was the principal address
scheduled for Boston. He was in.
troduced by Governor Cox who
spoke of the ovation accorded the
visitor yesterday, saying It proved
conclusively that "the people OF
Massachusetts love the people of
France"
Except for the address 1.-THE
Tiger" spent a quiet day. He will
leave Boston tomorrow morning for
New Haven for the Harvard.Yale
football game.