The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-05
CIemeneGu Tells
plans For u. S.
BY MILTON BRoNNER.

W.
st. Vincent-Sur-Jard, France -
France escaped murder. She will
not now commit suicide"
In this epigram Georges Clemen-
ceau, Frances grand old man and one
Of the few really great men now liv-
ing, summed up for me French history
since 1914.
He meant, of course, that his below
ed country has escaped the murder
Germany planned for her, and that if
France still maintained an adequate
army, it was because to disarm at
present would be to invite German re-
venge-in other words, suicide for
France.
France is not imperialist, not mill
tarist," he said. France is not a
nation of fools and only fools would
want to burden their country with
militarism. am going to America
in November to tell America so.
"No one has spoken for France, SO
determined, unoficially and as a pri-
vate individual, to cross the ocean in
my old age and do so. 1t is one of
the last and best services can render
my country
81 shall present no apology. France
needs none!
81 shall present no defense. France
requires none!
81 shall ask nothing for France.
III shall present the facts about
Europe and let Americans draw their
own conclusions, and determine
whether they should do anything, and
what they should do.
: at may necessitate plain talk"
The old man smiled grimIy.
81 hava ever had the reputation of
speaking my mind. But shall speak
in simple and friendly terms-simple,
because the Americans like what you
call straight talk, friendly because l
feel your country is fundamentally
friendly~to mine.
81 have not prepared and am not
going to prepare any written speech
es. / have all the necessary facts in
my head and will stick to few lead
ing propositions
81 will not discuss the policies of
President Poincare, nor the matters
of Preparations and interallied debts.
VIII Discuss Treaty.
81 will certainly discuss the treaty
of Versailles, the League of Nations,
the condition of Europe, and the re-
spective attitudes OF France, England
and America.
81 believe in the continued unity of
the allies. They served together in
the war whose primary object was to
secure peace. But peace is not really
firmly established and we can only
win peace as we won the war-by uni
ty. To fail in the peace, to face an
other general conflict would be to
face the dark chapter of inevitable
ruin for modern civilization"
Clemenceau received me in his lit
tie home on the seashore. 1t is only
a bare SO feet away from the surf.
Probably no other great actor in the
World war and peace drama dwells in
such isolation and spartan simplicity.
Clemenceau divides his time be-
tween his little book-crowded fat in
Paris and his home in native Vendee,
three miles from the nearest omni-
bus line and half mile from the ham
let of St. Vincent-sur-JaTd
In hardly any essential does it diff
fer from the ordinary cottages of the
Vendean peasants. It's a one story
brick affair The brick is covered with
cement plaster, which in turn is
whitewashed. There are four small
rooms, a study and bedroom for the
master, kitchen and dining room.
The bedroom is almost monastic in
its bareness-a little single bed, a
washstand, a mirror before which to
shave-and that is about all.
The study has some book-laden
shelves, an old work table, few COM