Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-12-09
CLEMENCEAU SEES "OVERTURE"
BY HARDING IN HIS MESSAGE
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have got tho league OF nations. you
have got your thrcc-power arrange
mcnt. you may do something new IL
you like.
'Of course. tho league OF nations
has tho advantage that you can go
there, may be with some reservations
to keep yourself free Of It's dangers.
do not know. but l suggest now
that tho league has done much for
Austria and Serbia. and 1t has done
II In n rather good way. / do not
know II you have any American OBJ
server at the league OF nations.
There must be somewhere 4 man who
is watching for you.
Docs Not Ask for Money.
Il do not ask for money. l ask
you after l hnvo gone to think over
tho matter, to examine as nearly as
YOU can II you have any duty. II.
having fought for n certain treaty
that was brought to you by President
Wilson. your chief. you think your
responsibility is engaged. And. my
dear friends. / know after you have
thought OF It. you will have IL feel
ing that your responsibility is en-
gagged.
NO people >can live In n state OF
isolation. You have got the best
frontiers In the world. But you
have your guarantees as your presl-
dent said today, and do not blame
you for II. Your chances OF war are
diminishing.
But take your guarantees on the
Pacific. There is an ocean for
battlefield. But our guarantees on
the Rhine. That is small river.
which has already been invaded in
my lifetime j come to America
To show you the danger. and TO tell
YOU there is no safety for democracy
when a battle is raging.
Il do not say that war is coming.
| hope il is not. But | DO say ii
looks as though it might bo coming
Tint Is enough 10 take -prccaution.
If l were to tell you the prccaution
to take. II l were to advise YOU to
send soldiers, that might hc going
very far, and l do not. simply
say that If the moral assurance is
given that America does no, disinter-
est herself from the execution OF the
treaty, that is enough. Then the
Germans will keep quiet. And the
Turks--I cannot suffer tho Turks. |
don't think any one can-but they
too. would keep quiet. And Russia
will understand that II she wants to
come back To the civilized world. she
has only 10 perform civilized acts"
Frequent Applause.
Clcmenccau's audience followed
him throughout with careful atten-
ton. and his address was inter
spersed with frequent bursts of ap-
plause.
Although he touched lightly on the
charges OF ''militarism" and Inn
perialism" against France. and re-
Il t,,.
had every intention OF paying her
debts To America. he devoted most;
of his address TO the subject OF some
form OF American intcrvention-prc-
ferahly n tri-partitc agreement OF
America, Great Britain and Franco.
which he asserted could cure most OF
the ills OF Europe. The Tiger" on
his arrival was given an ovation
both outside and Inside the big mar
hle memorial to the Revolutionary
heroes. lie came directly from a
luncheon with Chairman Henry Cabot
Lodge. Of the Senate Foreign Rcla-
tons Committee, who had been
obliged by tho engagement to alb
sent himself from the Joint session
NJ Congress called to hear the ad-
dress Of President Harding.
VI. Clcmcucedu was presented TO
his audience by Major-tiencral Tas-
kcr VI. Bliss, retired, once Il meinhcr
OF the allied supreme council and one
of the American commissi toner's to the
Paris peace conference.
Rcciting the history of tho carly
days al the World War, NJ. Clsmcn-
Ccau paid tribute in tho same breath
to the American and British soldiers.
although he said the Americans
were very long In coming"
You can say now that you hadn't
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