New Britain herald., 1926-08-09
Clemcnceau's Plea.

Paris, Aug. g P-Georges Clem- enceau, Frances wartime premier, believes that the Franco-American debt agreement entered into at Washington between Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and NJ. Beren- ger, the French ambassador to the United States, not only cannot be carried out but that it threatens Frances independence.
 'The Tiger" has made an appeal to President Coolidge in an open letter published here, requesting the American chief executive not to place the funding of war debts up- on a purely commercial basis. He says the French treasury is empty and that promises of payment in the Franco-American agreement are inn possible of fulfillment because they would necessitate loan with solid security in the shape of our territor- ial possessions, as was the case for Turkey" and warns President Cool idge that France will never accept such a thing.
 France Not For Sale.
 France is not for sale. even to her friends" says M. Clemenceau. "Independent she came to us; inde- pendent we shall leave her"
 In pleading with President Cool idge not to consider war debts, as purely cash transactions between creditor and debtor, NJ. Clemenceau says France was fearful lest the United States was adopting the old time policy of England" of controll- ing Europe by playing off one con- tinental power against another.
 NJ Clemencau tells Prsident Cool idge that war debt settlements have created divergencies of opinion which threaten a serious effect on the future of the civilized world. A technician, he says, too often os a man whose pleasure consists in iso- lating his own problems from that which he is occupied in coordinat- ing. His reference here was to. the technical financial experts who are working on the lebts.
 Everything in public affairs, :" says NJ Clemenceau, "contributes to form a whole and anyone who thinks he can isolate himself in his own domain is running the risk Of finding himself overwhelmed later when it is too late to mend matters"
 The former premier asserts that trial solutions or preparation for so- lutions of debt questions between the United States and England, England and France, and France and the United States have not brought about a good state of feeling, and adds:
 Other Considerations.
 I've are debtors, you are credl- tors. It seems this is regarded as purely a matter for the cashiers de- partment, but are there no other considerations to be taken into &C., count?"
 In saying that France was not for sale, even to her friends, NJ. Clemenceau tells President Coolidge to ask himself whether according to President Monroe you would feel otherwise about the American con- tinent."
 The former premier tells of the sufferings of France during the World War and asks where France failed to fulfill all the demands of duty.
 France Paid Dearly
 "Yes," he declares. i've have thrown everything into the abyss blood and money-as England and the United States did on their side. but it was Frances territory that was devastated scientifically For three deadly years We awaited this q declaration from America, France is the frontier of liberty Three years of blood and money oozing from every pore!
 As Russia did at Brest Litovsk, America has made separate peace with Germany without even the slightest suggestion of an adjust ment with her comrades in arms. Today. a money peace between the allied and associated powers is be- ing divided. How is it we failed to foreseo what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of proflteers to decide the question whether it would allow. us to con- tinue in defense of theNfinest con 1uest in the finest of history? Must .he myth of German separations lead up to American cash collec- ions?"
 NJ. Clemenceau says he has spok- an freely 10 the head of a people rom whom for fifty years he has lad the highest respect and friend ship. Because l believed that peo- pie was destined to receive from he old world the torch of a great deal of humanity to carry on high IT and higher"
 Tt is now for that people to pro- lOunce judgment on itself" he adds. I can only offer the supreme hon. lga of my silence if I am mistaken" a Strengthens Postponemcnt
 Whatever may be the effect of d Clemenceau's open letter 10 'residenthoolidge in the United States. it N considered that it will trengthen that section of NJ. Poin- ares cabinet favoring postpone 1 nent of action on the ratification Of 1 hesWashington debt pact.
 The wartime premier's sudden ncursion into the arena of politics , as made a good impression both | n political circles and among the i eneral public. It is almost unani. 1ously approved. A notable excep- i,