Evening star., 1932-12-25
HERRIOT DEPLORES GULF
BETWEEN i. S. AND FRANCE
Sympathy With Each Others Problems
Urged by Former Premier as Way
to Solve Debts Tangle.

few Frenchmen living on that side OF
the ocean.
That propaganda deeply has hurt and
cruelty wounded France. And yet at
the call Of the United States, my coun-
try did not hesitate to go to the succor
Of her former enemy, Germany. We
even have given Germany private
credits. We followed the advice not
only Of American statesmen, but Amer.
excellent men, Dawes, Young, Parker
and Gilbert.
We made an immense sacrifice at
Lausanne-we abandoned IS annuities
out of 81. And although it was the
moratorium of President Hoover which
destroyed the Young plan. in fact II
not in law, we found when we ourselves
asked for q moratorium 1t was refused
us.
However, the fact that a moratorium
was refused us did not release us from
the duty Of keeping our obligation of
paying December Is. I always have
defended the policy Of fulfillment Of
contracts. I think that If we want to
save the world from the detestable
domination of force. we must place 1t
under a system Of honoring signatures.
say to my countrymen that If Amer
leans sometimes have misjudged you,
you know too little about them. You
have been satisfied with the idea of an
enormously rich America which does
not know what to do with its gold But
the United States also is suffering. The
United States also Is touched by the
world crisis. Americans also are feel
ing the consequences Of the war. They
know the painful scourge of unemploy-
ment, and we ought to have hearts
large enough to think of so many un-
happy men out of work. American
finances also are struggling against
great difficulties.
All this we ought to understand and
we ought also to remember that even
the important question of money should
not let us forget the past.
In 1917 I was already the minister
Of supplies. The Winter was terrible
There was no more coal, corn, ships or
money. The heroic armies were strug
Cling, suffering in filth and blood
can well remember my JOY when I
learned of the entry OF the United
States into the war. I shall never for
get the American troopS-young men
thrown at the darkest moment into the
horrible struggle. shall not forget our
dear, great Pershing. shall not forget
the graves. I shall not forget the
mothers whom I see each year coming
in pilgrimage.
It was to be faithful unto death that
I sacrificed myself. Was my sacrifice
worth that of a single one Of those
soldiers who went to be swallowed up
in France in order to help to save that
land?
shall. therefore, keep myself above
the disagreementS in order to listen
only to the voice of duty. Our fault,
on both sides, is to have forgotten that
all those who won the war together
should work together at organizing peace.
believe In the necessity Of uniting the
three great democracies Of the United
States, Great Britain and France in
order to save not only peace, but lib
erty.
II in the course Of the enterprise in
which went down struggled hard to
maintain contact with England, It was
not that I wanted to present against
America what has been called united
front. No, 1t Is because I wanted Eu-
rope to appear not in disorder, but as
an organized community
To Germany herself at the Lausanne
Conference, held out hand which
often had been rejected. What should
like to see Is the United States enter
ing this international community which
we have been preparing,