Evening star., 1939-03-30
Text of DuIudier's Address
Premier Speaks Frankly on 1toIion
Relations, Scoring Vital Space Theory
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 30 The text of
prime minister's broadcast last night
to France and the world follows:
It Is above all as a man that I,
chief of the government responsible
for the policies of France, wish to
address myself to the French and
beyond the frontiers of my country
to all those throughout the world
who have a loyal and generous
heart.
There is language which has no
need of translation to be under
stood by all! 1t is the language of
the heart. If we were face to face
YOU who hear me, with your child
rem at your side; I who speak with
the thought that my sons are at
my side-we would understand one
another in the very second when
our glances would meet.
We would have the same feeling
of the present fearful difficulties
and the same hope in the future
We would not have need of words
nor of phrases to understand that
we think one and the other only of
maintenance of peace and the honor
and liberty of our fatherland.
Each one of us wonders if his
country is not menaced, if his neigh
bors are sure. This uncertainty
obliges governments to take mea-
sures and precautions. Treaties are
signed, but before even being put
into effect they exist no longer
for some as guarantee for others
as an obstacle.
Frenzy Of Armaments Tends
To Destroy Other Activities.
Those who do not act feel them
selves accomplices of force and
those who act fear to provoke force.
Everywhere the frenzy of arma-
ments destroy all other activities.
How could We still act and think
freely?
1t is by such a situation, alarm
engendering alarm and armaments
bringing up super armaments, that
war already has often been Unbiased.
This situation makes it my duty to
tell you this evening what France
wants, what is her strength and
what is her resolution.
What France wants? 1t is peace
for free men.
The strength of France? It is
her material and moral unity real
lied once more in the face of peril.
The resolution of France? It is
to defend her ideals and rights.
To make understood to all things
so. simple and so evident a chief of
government does not quibble.
Union of France Declared
Never Before So Complete.
I shall teach nothing to the
Frenchmen who listen to me, but I
shall teach something, perhaps, to
foreigners in saying that the union
of France has never been so pro-
found or so complete as today.
Without doubt that is not what
certain men repeat who have re-
ceived a mission to spread through
out the world the absurd fable of
the impotence and of the abdica-
ton of France: never has France
been more united. never has she
been more resolute, never has she
been stronger.
She hopes peace will be saved, for
she hates war. But if war were i'm
posed on her or if it were offered
to her as the sole alternative be-
tween its advent or dishonor, she
would rise in single rush for de-
fense of her liberty.
This liberty she is in a position
to preserve.
Warned by the disorder of Europe
and of the world, the French have
understood that to assure their
safety great effort was necessary.
They have accomplished it.
Work, Management, Sacrifice
Have Brought Results.
Increased work. healthy and rig
orous management of public
finances and acceptance of indis-
pensable sacrifices had already CIV
en- useful results. Our economic
situation was improving. as the fig
ures of French production show.
The franc was holding firmly on
the line we have fixed. National
defense was solidly guaranteed.
The international crisis which has
Just broken out did not fall thus
on a weak and disconnected France.
Indeed, to the contrary, despite
the international crisis. she pursues
her recovery. Her production in
creases. Unemployment diminishes.
Her money is one of the most stable.
Yesterday even the franc improved
In relation to all the moneys of the
world, and we received in that day
alone more than tons of gold.
But We have had the prnfInd be-