Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-05
CLElNENCEAU MAKES
FINAL APPEAL FOR
HIS FRANCE TODAY
Has FOrty-Five Minute Conference With Chlei EXECUTIVE
This MOrning-Pleads That America Shall Again
Weld Her Power In Europe
WAR PRESIDENT AND TIGER BURY HATCHl
Harding Seemed Sympathetic AS Story vi France
Plight Was TOld-Dscards SLOUGH Hat For
Silk Beaver and FOrgets That.

,he official answer to his direct ap-
peal TO the American people. Inc
answers to the "Old Tigers thtee
main plans will be:
THE United States will onIy IN
volve itself with European questions
when it deems it can be helpful IN
practical way. 49,.
2-Maintaining its traditional a.
titude of non-entangiement, Ine
United States will not directly any
itself with France against German ag-
gressions.
3-France's future actions on world
affairs must answer for themselves
as regards Clemenceau's protesIa-
tions that his country is not miIiter-
istic. a..
Not since the days of the Paris Con
ference. then the Tigers gray-gi0(V-
ed fists rested domineeringly ON the
Peace Table, have the two great war
figures Wilson and Clomenceau-
met face to face. r.
Reputed enemies as the result OF
their claims at Paris, in which the
Tiger has been credited with having
often wcrsted Wilson, the Onlteu
Press is authoritatively informed
however, that the two men VIII meet
i'm the utmost friendliness, that theX
will ''burv the hatchet," and that all
clouds of enmity have passed.
From their head-on clashes at Par
is to the present turn OF tate tnat
brings them together once more, VII
SON and Clemenceau now have a great
admiration for each other, 1t IS de-
President.
Fate has played with these two
clared in quarters close to the former
world leaders in a way that are strik,.,
inglv similar. Two of the Big Four
of Versailles, they remade the map OF
Furope three and q half years ago.
Now each has been repudiated oy
tbeir voters. although both are held
i'm rhe highest esteem in their respec-
tive countries. The one has been
twisted by inhrmitieS because ne re-
fused to spare himself when he ap-
pealed 70 the American people TO sup
mort mis- cause: the other Is scoHlhg
at similar warnings as ne makes ms
appeal to the American people III
reckless disregard Of his 81 years
Roth Wilson and Clemenceau are
now seen as standing for more or less
the same thing American reentrance
into FuroDean affairs, although from
tbo standpoints of the different inter
ests of their countries. Co-authorS OF
the Treaty of Versailles, the League
of Nations, the Franco-Amerlcan-
british Alliance against German ag-
aression-all rejected by the Amerl-
car Senate, they will nave much %
90 How far the Tigers conference with
President Harding will develop IS Il
N" Bmt it is not believed that Mr.
Harding will speak in more than gen
oral terms of this country's foreign
policies. 49,. IT,.
u,as m before dawn today at the
nome of Henry White, former Am
bassador of the United States to
France, where is IS staying
The plans are for ClemencGau TO
make his main speech here Friday
in Continental Hall, where We're held
the plenarv sessions Of the Washing
ton Disarmament Conference. He will
sneak at Philadelphia Saturday and
then 90 back to Chicago to address a
farmers convention Monday, accord
ing to present plans. ,
Great interest exists here whether
Col f. NJ. House, the man largely
responsible for Clemenceau's cam
paign in the United States will see
Wilson with the Tiger, thus ending
the long lapse in relations since WI
son broke with his former confident.