Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-22
CLEMENCEAU WANTS
us. TO AID FRANCE
Sees Peril of German Democ-
racy; Here to Claim a Right,
He Tells Americans.

New York, Nov. GA diminutive,
DronSed man with beetling eyebrows
and cleaning eyes. walked softly
across tho stage of tho Metropolitan
Opera House last night and fiung him.
self impulsively into the arms OF q
Genera. OF the American Army, talk
ing volubly, needless Of the eyes OF
thousands.
That was the FIRST bright picture OF
Georges Clemenceau, 81 years old.
Tiger" Of France, as he was seen
by his flrst formal American audience
Of 1000 or more gathered to hear the
most-feared man In his country plead
for tho cause Of that country.
The great crowd that saw this re-
markable man ning himself impul-
sively into the arms of a big soldier
heard him say:
God bless you, my dear General
Pershing."
This greeting over ne was introduc-
ed as returned voyager" to land
that was his home for four years, ar
The Father OF Victory" and as
man whose mighty will had held a
group of allies together while every
where the water was breaking through
the dikes. Then John w. Davis. who
was Ambassador to Great Britain dur
ing the war, turned to the little crap
man and said:
Speak to us. and be assured that
you are among friends"
And M. Clemenceau. calling himself
a plain man" from France with .
plain set of facts to state.-was face to
face with the supreme effort OF his
life. an effort to reunite the war allies
against what he believes ia still
greater peril than the great war.
He began by telling what he had
learned in America in the four years
he had lived here right after the close
of the Civil War, and in the course OF
his address emphasized these points:
The militarists in Germany already
are preparing another war. Don't
you know what that means?"
Tho rapprochemept of the Turks
and Soviet Russia is ominous and
meantime Ludendorff and other Ger
man military leaders are planning a
coup against the Democratic Gov
ernment in Berlin.
This Is a time of greatest crisis
and the United States should renew
conversations with France and Eng
land which, without definitely commit
ting the country to any set program
should revive for German eyes the
picture OF the three unpleasant folks
who faced and beat her in the war.
Sooner or later America will have
to interest herself in the affairs OF
Europe, because she cannot continue
to be comfortable and wealthy 81
Europe is weltering in blood.
He asked, therefore. that the United
States frame a plan to carry out the
terms OF the Peace-Treaty and joir
with England and France In imposing
It on Germany.
He frankly criticised Americas post.
war attitude, saying that since
America had had large share in i'm.
posing the peace terms she had q
huty to see that they were carried
cut.
He challenged the value OF Ger.
many's signature TO a treaty. i
France had known in 1918, he said
that four years later reparation
would still have been unpaid, sh
would have gone on to Berlin. tLou,
applause greeted this statement)
Reparations was an American ides
and the armistice represented essen
TALLY the American point of view.
AS to the League Of Nations h
didn't want to speak of it, but -
might, 1 might" He did not believ
In the League as a means of prevent
ing war. but he did believe in it a
q means of arranging matters, defer
rims war and giving peoples a chano
TO think.
America had now come to the la
point where she was granted time
think. No sacrifice was demanded