The New York herald., 1922-11-22


stands as she stood in the WARMTH
England and France.
That is the message which he
crossed the ocean to deliver. His fer
vent plea, conveyed in speech last
| ing more than an hour and half,
was heard by 1000 persons.
DO you know" he said, that they
are manufacturing cannons by the
hundreds; that they are making ma
chinery everywhere? tell you plain
| ". as / told Lloyd George before the
war, they are preparing war again.
Don't you see what is going on? Don't
you read the papers? Why. haven't
you heard of the treaty between the
Turks and the Germans and the Rus
slams? Look at all this manufactur-
ing that is going on in Germany. Now
| say that Gems. Ludendorff and Hin
denberg are preparing wa, civil war
to crush the German democracy, II
they can. Have you forgotten what
tho Prussians did after Jena, how,
with $4,000 men, they brought Napo-
leon down? Now it is the same game.
1. is-written. Nobody can deny it."
Arr himself, he said he came on no
mis-. on. and as for France she wanted
no money. She wanted something more
valuable--"your heart and soul, some
thing which we in France call tmpon-
derabIe. which can be weighed on no hu-
man scale" He said he had come to
tell what he had been thinking In MS
quiet home In France. He had brought
my truth" and II was this: u thought
IL England misjudges America and
America misjudges France l thougnt
had better go and see what is the mat
ter" So. with no feather on his head
no embroidery on his sleeve, he had
come. "a plain man" He had come
back to America, like pupil to an ola
teacher, to Exchange ideas, and 10
talk interdependence.
Rcpronches America.
In a gentle. grandfatherly way, hardly
raising his voice above monotone TOT
minutes at time, Ciemenceau re-
proached the United States for, as he
said, having gone to Versailles and
(Aelped in the making OF contract ana
then left without executing II or sug-
gesting any way to do IL. lie claimed
for France guarantees which he said
had been promised but not provided. And
with that promise not kept. could France
leave her frontiers open? No. was his
own answer: and here broke forth one
of the big Representations or hanoclap-
ping which frequently interrupted him.
But as TO Just what he wishes America
70 do he was tactfuhy vague. The first
question. he said. was that of repara-
tions-a question of trust and banking,
but the big thing was that II the friends
of France show that they are the friends
OF France none will dare attack her. lie
hoped that America could take IL upon
itself in some way to renew conversa-
tions with England and France he
Ala not call for a promise OF anything
that America had not intended doing
during the war. hut he insisted that the
treat thing was simply TO show to Ger
MANY that the three unpleasant folks
she had before her eyes during the war
were still united" This, Clemenceau
seemed TO think. would scare Off the new
triple alliance which he saw on the
horizon-Germany. Turkey and Soviet
Russia
He nut all his power of eloauence and
all his emotion both Of which are great,
into an earnest entreaty that Englana
and America remain with France JUST
as united as they were In the war re
did not go so far as to say that tne
League of Nations was the only way TO
bring this about.
Greatest Crisis Coming.
He reaffirmed his old belief that the
League ia not a means OF preventing
war. but he argued II to be means
of ARRANGING matters" avoiding wars
when Il is possible. giving people time
to think. to ponder, before they deter
mine 60 take action. He recited with
subtle show of sarcasm some OF he
points for which America went Into the
war and he asked which CT these have
been gained. He said that all that was
expected from us is that you want to
keep among the people OF this world the
great place that you have twice taken.
d1Mrwise he saw the future as dark
and dreary," and the greatest crisis
at hand.
Challenging the worth OF Germany's
signature to a treaty, he said that II
France had known at the time or the
armistlce in 1918 that reparations would
have been unpaid four years later she
would have gone TO Berlin. This also
was loudly applauded.
But in this sympathetic audience
the longest single period OF applause,
except when Clemenceau appeared on
the stage and when he finished and
found both hands Of Gen. Pershing out
stretched TO him. followed a reference
TO President Wilson. There was much
handclapping interspersed with some
cheering. In the third tier balcony
man with a loud voice cried out some
thing which was indistinguishable on
the main floor. He seemed to be the
Wilson cheer leader. When the noise
stopped Clemenceau took up his thought
again in the middle of a sentence.
A little earlier a man in the same part
of the opera house had Interrupted
the speaker with a question which did
not reach the stage Clemenceau Kept
riaht on. The auestioncr bawied out
his query again. was drowned by cries
~ "put him outi" and presently he
was seen departing with his hat and
overcoat.
The methods Of the policemen detailed
from tho Charles street station and
working under the direct supervision OF
chief Inspector william ]. Lahey, were
criticized. The police were delegated to
keep the block in Thirty-ninth street,
between Seventh avenue and Broadway.
clear. The throng which gathered TO
see Clemenceau aa he left the opera
house after his speech was held back at
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