Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-25
EX-PREMIER Of
RANCE ANXIOUS
FOR ANE RIGA To
co To LAUSANNE
CIenenCeau Admits He
Really Came Here to
Seek to Draw the United
States Into Conference
PAYS HIS RESPECTS
TO SENATE CRITICS
ENGLAND and America ''Left
Me and Obliged Me to
Defend My Country" He
Tells Boston Audience

Boston, Nov. "a Cby the Asso-
ciated Press) His fighting blood
up, the Tiger of France turned
from the abstract to the specificI
today, answered his critics at
Washington with barbed phrases
and declared that what he really
came to America for was to seek
to draw th, United States into the
conference at Lausanne for the
settlement Of the eastern crisis
Speaking in fremont temple be-
fore a fashionable audience, Glenn
enceau said he had not intended
10 tell Americans how TO run their
own business.
but they have asked me to go
uither," he said, referring to the
h assertions Of senators at Nashlhg-
ton that his addresses were TOO
vague. "They also dared me. am
ready today, in Boston, to 50
little further, III give you not ad-
vice. but what l think 1t Is the
very simplest thing in the world
Lausanne Conference
"There is at Lausanne q confer
ence where England and France
are supposed to agree with ltaly'
y hich might meet with some dif-
ficulties, Let the Yankee come
and say Good day, gentlemen; Il
there a seat for ne?' They VIII
/ give an arm chair.
/ "Never were circumstances bet
ter; go there and you will meet the
eastern question which has peeh
troubling the world for the last
500 wears. And you will do more
Won will settle it, because you can
/ do il. because the presence or
! America IN Europe again VIII ten
the Germans that they won't ge
4 farther than certain limits. and be-
cause everybody win understand
there Is a moral and material
power which is TO take possession
Of The world, not Tor domination
but for freedom.
hLet my conclusion be this: Let
/ Us unite, Let MS be good Lel as
lie free.
Looked Il Triflc Worn
The aged war premier looking
! a trifle worn, but full of enthusi-
asm, spoke for more than an hour
Earlier in the day he had grant
/ ed his first American interview, IN
which he answered caustically the
criticisms leveled at him and his
country in Yesterdays debate on
the senate floor at Washington. lie
/ had paid special attention to Sen
ators Hitchcock ana Z or
launching barbed sallies at both,
/ some Of which were so hot that he
later asked that they be stricken
/ out
lie paid his respects 10 them
again from the platform, without,
|. ,wever, using their names. And
( his defense Of himself and Of
France against charges Of mill
tarism" and 'imperialism' here
were couched in terms Of reproach
rather than in fiery sentences.
To-day" he said Il hear | am
an imperialist becaus- | have got
4 war budget of five billions and
/ that | am a militarist because the
French have military service Of lS
months
"Why Should You Complain"
"Well ] hope if We are not too
early surprised by a new war that
this time of military service can
be shortened. | hope that the
French budget of war can be les
sened But am not going to make
any promises about it. | do not
concede that England and America
have the right to complain, be-
cause they left me and obliged me
to defend my country in such
manner. I am not going to COM
plain Of you because you organize
your military and navy defense as
you see best according to your laws
and decisions Of congress. There
fore, why should you complain of
me? Don't you think it rather
humiliating?
81 would like very much to hear
from anybody at what time we
turned militarist. It was not when
we were fighting, because we
never had soldiers enough. Was
that militarism because we saved
the whole of the world from the
| German dominating undertaking?
Was that militarist?"