Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-22
NJ. CLEMENCEAU
DELIVERS FIRST
PUBLIC ADDRESS
IN ME- ETR0P0LIS
MiIitari8t8 in Germany A.
ready Are Preparing for
Another War; French
Tiger Tells Audience
PRESENT A TIME OF
GREATEST CRISIS
Former Premier Urges the
United States to Renew
Conversations With Eng
land and France

New York. Nov. II (by the As
sociated Press) The militarists
in Germany already are preparing
another war, Georges Clemenceau,
war premier OF France, declared
tonight in the first address Of his
American tour.
Don't you read the newspa-
pers?" he demanded, Don't you
know what that means?'
The Tiger OF France, speaking
fervently before a packed house
at Tie Metropolitan opera house
reviewed the situation in Europe
pointing to a rapproachmeut Of
the Turn- and soviCt Russia as
omiuous war clouds.
Germans Plan Coup
In the meantime, he declared,
Ludendorff and other German mill
itarists were planning a coup
against the democratic government
there.
Describing the present as n time
of greatest crisis" he urged thHt
the United States should renew
Conversations with France and
! England, which, without definitely
| committing this country to any set
program, would present to German
eyes n picture OF the three un-
pleasant folks who faced her in
the war.
He said that sooner or later
America would nave to interest
| herself in the postwar affairs 0e
| Europe, because she could not con-
tiuue to be comfortable and weal-
thy il Europe was covered with
blood.
He expressed hope that the
United States might establish q
plan as to what was to be done in
carrying out the ter--'s Of the peace
treaty and join with England and
| France in imposing it on Germany.
He was frank in his criticism
| of Americas postwar attitude, de-
! claring that America had a largo
/ share in imposing the peace terms
and had duty TO see that they
were enforced.
7 Challenging, the worth Of Ger
] nany's signature to q treaty, the
I Tiger declared that if France had
known IN 1918 that reparations
would have been unpaid four years
later. she would have gone on to
Berlin.
Burst or Applause
The Tiger received a great burst
Of applause for the assertion.
NJ. Clemenceau, who protested
/ that he came to America on no
official mission but as a private
citizen to present the truth as he
saw it, declared that reparations
was an American idea. because
| President Wilson had come for
ward with his famous fourteen
"oints and the armistice repre-
sented essentially the American
| point Of view.
At mention of Woodrow Wilson
| there was another great burst of
| applause.
Expressing the hope that Amer
lea could find some way Of re-
newfng conversations with France
and England, looking toward en-
! forcement Of the peace treaty,
Clemenceau said:
IT don't want to speak OF the
/ league of nations. But | might,
I might"
The Tiger said he did not w.
lieve in the league MS a means Of
nreventing war, hut that he be-
! lieved In it as means of arrang-
Ing matters. deferring war and
giving peoples time to think.
"You have seen one Of the great
est dramas in the world" he said,
"We are now i'm the greatest
crisis. Nobody knows when It win
end and what effect Furopean
misery may have on American
! prosperity"
He aslled what America hal
mode war for and what she had
| gained.
He said America had come to
the last point where she was
9rantod time to think. No sacrifice
WIS demanded Of her evcent tho
"ill tn "ssert he~sa1f, as the naopla
she had vanTpished were unable fr
do onvthing just at the present
| nOment.