Evening star., 1922-12-13
CLEMENCEAU SAILS;
SAYS HE'LL RETURN,
BUT ONLY AS GHOST
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and several times during his brief
talk.
81 cannot find words" he began. "to
eXprt IS my gratitude for SO kino a
welcome.
Had Planned Long Speech.
Il had made up my mind about
week ago to make here tonight
long and elaborate speech to prove q
great many things that need not be
proved and to tell you many things
which you know as we'll as do. But
Miss Anne Morgan chairman OF the
committee) was good enough to let
me know that had better not speak
and l agreed with her opinion.
Why should I sneak? 1 have got a
sore throat. l am tired, l am old and
want very much to go to bed.
But all this will not prevent me
from saying once more what / ought
to say. l came to this country te
accomplish duty which nobody
asked ME to accomplish. and some
people even did not seem to like the
idea that I was going to do my duty
came to appeal to the American
mind. and the answer came from
American hearts.
Pays Tribute to Americans.
"My dear friends, I have seen your
soldiers in this bloody. cruel war
am witness for them II they need
any, l know from the first nomen,
when the enemy saw them. they did
not want to go on with war very
m
work. as great. should say greater
than could be expected from your
sons and brothers and husbands; but
there remains a duty during peace,
and the greatest part Of 1t was beau
tifully accomplished by the ladies
that I have beside me. who with
generosity. with kind hearts toward
those who had suffered SO much. did
more than they could have been ex-
pec.ed to do.
When the Americans came they
raised among us great hopes. We had
been promised the end of the war.
pity. generosity, all the great dreams
that man has been promenading with
himself under the stars. Those dreams
have never been realized. We were
told they were going to be and we
all believed II, and the soldiers above
all believed it and il was as nothing
for them to give their lives TO OBJ
tain such a very high aim, the aim
that every great nation had always
Says France IL Left to Pay.
America left after having disin-
terested herself from the execution
of the treaty. know the feeling
was all right. I do not suspect for a
moment that thero was In American
heads anything than this-that they
had accomplished their duty and
could leave the right to other times.
They thought. seeing the soldiers
coming home. We are through The
trouble Is you were not through. At
least we were not We were left and
struggled and suffered, and we were
not paid, and we have to bow and
spend money for reparation that Ger
many ought to have paid. but which
nobody has found ways to oblige her
to pay.
suffered very much more when I
heard that we were charged with be-
ing militarists and imperialists in
America, and that made mo jump
from my very pleasant seat on the
ocean and come to America to ask
you what was the matter.
Believes L. 8. Attitude ChanseA.
What the matter was, I know It
now. The matter was that you were
not we'll informed. The matter was
that you did not know what was our
condition. The matter was that you
thought France was militaristic and
imperialistic, when Germany was
militaristic and imperialistic. And
the fact was that as soon as you
understood it heard but one cry
'vivi la France!'
Il was especially moved when this
cry came from young and old ladies'.
1t is ladies who cried most 'vive la
France" and. whether they had
and more moved by this feeling and
by this cry. For this I want to
thank you.
In France we are almost at the
eve Of the greatest difficulties we
have encountered since the end Of
too often with England, and this
might have been avoided II America
had been there.
1--WE do not ask for anything. We
want to do our duty ourselves. When
you came with your soldiers you ac-
Of your duty.
Up to United States to Judge.
you have been good towards
our widows, towards our children,
towards our father1ess orphans, and
for this we thank you. And in doing
this you certainly have done more
than a great many nations would
have done for themselves.
IF you think that you are not quite
at the end Of your duty then 1t is
for you to Judge. I have no advice
to give you. simply say this: In
1875, when you wanted to liberate
yourselves, you called for European
PHILOSOPHERS and you called for men,
and with the French ideas of the
eighteenth century you made up
that wonderful Declaration of Inde-
pendence, which was more than a
book, for it was an act.
"lf you think that now this great
motion for liberation has carried
France and part of Europe through
wars for independence, and II you
think that you can do something for
them, as has been done for you, my
friends, 1t is for you to judge.
"I end by this simple word. which
have repeated very often, and
which I want you to ponder. A ma
tion cannot be great one day and