The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-20
Ex-Premier Andre Tardieu Admits
 Using State Funds To Aid Fascists
By MILTON BRoNNER

IS an old tag, but the whirliglg oI bitter French politics has given this Q new twist-"The revealer re- vealed."
 The revealer is Andre Tardieu, several times Premier of France and ambitious to be so again. The man whose actions he tried to reveal ls Colonel de la Roque, organizer ot the Fascist outfit called Croix de Ecu, which, when outlawed, prompt- ly had @ rebirth as the French so- cial Party. But in attacking the Colonel, Tardieu has revealed ms own actions--and more will be heard about this when his enemies of the Left get busy on the stump
 It's rather an involved story. Some seven years ago de la Roque formed his Croix de Ecu. It was built along Fascist-Nazi lines and its noisy young adherents had many street Encounters with Communists ana Socialist, especially in Paris.
 Charge ROque Took Money
 One of de la Roque's cnie1 Meu- tenants was the aristocrat, Duke pozzo dc Borgo. Last summer they sn,t. Tn July tue Duke began tne n,,hiication of @ weekly sheet calleo .0hio.U French for Shock" In tnls naner he made the flat assertion that his old chief had accepteaa money from the secret governm1,eenn' 1,en funds ta the disposal Of notn aas 'aS dieu and dark-skinned, slit-eyeu Pierre Laval when they were pre-
 The doughty colonel at once ,c,e. ce. x,sA the story in toto. In Q pupMc sneech at Lyons he said the auHe ss had disqualified himself as Is . ps'tiSUs Ss Iny making accusations wnlch ne ne knew to be false. The duke av onSs Ss f,ied d islander action against oe ia Rouue In the Lyons courts.
 " Justifles His Action .,.
 vvhen the case was called, ms ch;ef witness was Tardieu who tes- tified that when he was premier n' ieSO the colonel asked nm ior m- nancial support for his FascsC os- raniyation. Tardieu justifieo ms ., ac4 : cedinr to the request by saying tnaV V al that time there was much noise in the world over the Sacco- VanHett, affair in the United States ana m,,ch Communist activity. All m ali during his various tenancies ol the premiership he gave de 10 .,s Eoqae .a he said, more than $b0,0OV Wner.. ..., upon de Ia Roque bounoceo up shouting:
 "Tardieu says took money from him, It is false. He has lieoT
 Used Taxpayers Money .,.,
 For the simple American Eeaug. N,, it must be explained that the dougn Tardieu was so freely handing ouo wss not his own. It was the ta%- payers money. .. +,o great democracies of the world III having good -sized secret iunds placed at the disposition oI tno ', Prl rneMinister and of the secretary of the Interior. The premier always Sesns in his oftice Q good quantity of bank notes which he can speno as he thinks best. No report IS mace on this money. It is supposed to DC used for the interests of France.
 Now in exposing or trying to ex- pose de To Roque, Tardleu mas ex- x posed himself. He is shown as speno- inr the country's money to finance a Fascist outfit. He has thus verl- fled what his enemies have always charged him with being-a Fascist ot heart It will probably put o ouietus on the ambitious politician, ,in:ess a political revolution shouio give the extreme Right @ maJority in some future French parliament
 Once Served In U. 5.
 He has been an ofiice-holder TOT much of his life and >on several oc- casions his jobs took him to the tinted states. A brilliant student at Parisian institutions of learning, as A young man versed In the stuay of foreign affairs he came to Wash. ington as one of the secretaries o1 the French Embassy. He was the secretary to the Council Of M'n- isters 1899. 1902. .
 m the world War he served with distinction as Q captain ID the 44th Chasseurs until Ciemen- ceau became premier when he was called home to become 0 Wusteo collaborator, later being sent 70 tne United states in 1917 as Frencn High Commissioner. -
 After the war he was minister of public works under Premier po,rcare in 1926. premier in 1929 and again In 1890, premier inartn and again in 1880, minister oi agriculture in the Laval cabinet Tn 1e3i and in 1882 formed Q violently anti-Left cambinet, which was thrown out of ofiice when the Let swept the country. He again LOOK ofiice in the cabinet of Premier Do,,nergue In 1884 and we the req! father of the slick buj defeated Doumergue plan to enhance tne nower of the premier at the expense of the Parliament.
 Helped Hltler's Rise
 There are many who look upon this pince-nezed, shriil-vo'ce1 statesnaYl as one of the evil geniuses of latter-day France. By his stubborn anti-G German phobia when Bruening was German Chancellor, it is asserted he helped Hitler to climb to power. By ms policies ct the London Naval Con ference and the later Disarmament Conference, he did much to estrange English public opinion at a time when France needed English sup port more than ever.