South Bend news-times., 1922-11-25
Tiger OF France
AnSWerS Critics
WithSharpWords
Says America Could Enter
Near-East Trouble and Set
tie Age Old Feud.

BOSTON, Nov. 24-tBy A PD-
His lighting blood up. the Tiger OF
France turned from The abstract
10 the specific today. answered his
critics in Washington with a~Aed
phrases and declared that what he
{ really came 20 America for was 10
seek TO draw the United States i'm
10 the conference at Lausanne for
the settlement of the eastern cri-
sis.
Speaking in fremont temple. be-
fore a fashionable audience, Clemen
ceau said he had not intended 20
tell Americans how 10 run their
own business. But they have asked
me TO go further" he said. refer
ring 10 the assertions of senators
at Washington that his addresses
were too vague. They also dared
me. I am ready today in foston 10
go a little further. III give you not
advice, but what l think. II is the
very simplest thing in the world
"ltnere is at Lausanne a confer
( ence where England and France
are supposed to agree with Italy,
which might meet with some diff
culties Let the Yankee come and
say Good Day Gentlemen: is there
a seat for me?" They viii give him
an a~m chair.
Never were circumstances bet
er. Go there and you will meet the
| eastern question which is trOub-
ling the world for the last 500
years. And you Will do more-you
Will settle it. because you can do
| it, because the presence OF America
in Europe again will tell the Ger
mans they won't go farther than
Ger ain limits, and because every
body will understand there is a
moral and material power which is
10 take possession Of the world,
not for domination but for freedom.
Let my conclusion be this: Let
US unite. Let US be good. Let Us be
/ free
The aged premier, looking a tri-
1 fe worn but full of enthusiasm,
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 levelled at him and his
country in yesterdays debate on the
senate floor at Washington. He had
paid special attention TO Sens
! Hitchcock and Borah. launching
! barbed salIies at both. some OF
which. were so hot that he later
asked that they be stricken out.
! He paid his respects 10 them
again from the platform, without
/ however. using their names.
His defense Of himself and Of
, France against charges of mill
/ tarism" and imperialism" here were
couched in terms Of reprOach rath
I er than fiery sentences.
To-day" he said, Il hear 1 am
an imperialist because I have got
war budget of five billions and
that I am miltarist because the
! French have military service Of IS
months
well. I 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 I am not going TO make
any promises about IL ] do not
concede that England and America
have the right to complain. because
they left me and obliged me 10 de-
fend my country in such a manner.
/ 1 am not going TO complain OF you
because you organize your military
and naval defense as you see best
according to your laws and deci-
sionS OF congress Therefore why
! should YOU complain OF me- Dom
YOU think il rather humiliating
Asks What is Militarism.
II would like very much 10 hear
from anybody at what time we
( turned miIitarist. II was not when
We were lighting because we never
I had soldiers enough. Was that mi-