The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-22

French by COL Gen. Wilhelm Keitel chef-of-staff
declared that:
Germany must have assurances that would
prevent resumption of battle.
0-France must give Germany "all assurances
4 for waging the Rech's against Great
Britain.
0-Prerequsites must be established for a
~ peace which will provide restitution to Ger
- many for the wrongs done by force.
kelel declared Germany did not intend TO lend TO the
armistice conditions the negotiations for cessation of
hostties the character of abuse against "a brave enemy
The armistice presented to the French dele
gates headed by Gen. Charles Huntzger Asatianbo
The ceremony was said by Nah spokesmen to
have "expunged' the parallel meeting in November,
1918, when German delegates, meeting Marshal Foch,
in the dining car-No. 2419.D of the Wagon
Lifts company-and the identical spot, came to
France with the identical request France today made
of Germany.
There immediate official Interpretation of the
armstce preambes but the DNB agency declared
Iodays action IN Compiegne forest has eradicaed the
past injustice done the honor of German The
SolemnIy OF our action toward an enemy who has been
honoraby defeated stands in contrast to the eternal hate
saving monuments this scene, where gallo vile
ness abused the unconquered German army"
The preamble to the armistice terms read to the
French delegates by Kete, who said he spoke at the
order of the uehrr and commander of the Ger
Keitel harked back Immediately to that day
nearly p years when Germany laid down her
arms. This action, he said, was in confidence OF
assurances made by the American President Wilson
and confirmed by the allied powers
THE war;, kete said, was thereby concluded
action which wanted by the German
- people and government and in which the enemy
successful in decisively yanquishing the German
army. navy air force.
AT the of the arrival Of the German armstce
commission there began the breach of soemny given
promise. Nov. H. 1918 began in this train, the time
q of suffering of the German people.
The preamble, sharp words, restaed Htlers thesis
that Germany had not lost the in 1918, that the
by the vaclaon and treachery of states
men in Berlin and that Germanys postwar suferings
stemmed in inevitable consequence from these
1t this platform that carried him TO power. Today
3 it restated at Compiegne.
What dishonor and debasement,' said the armis-
tice preamble, what human and material suffering
that could be inflicted against a people begun
here.
Perjury and breach Of promise conspired
against a people which after than four years
of historic resistance succumbed 10 only a single
weakness belief in the promises Of democratic
statesmen
Sept g. 1889 % years after the outbreak of the World
war; England and France again declared against Ger
many without any grounds Now weapons decision has
required that the French government be made known
the German conditions for armistice
IF the historic Compiegne forest has been chosen
for handing these conditions, then il has been
done in order and for all, through this act of
just retrbuion, to eradicate memory which
not a glorious page in French history and which
felt by the German people TO be the deepest shame
- Of all time
France has been beaten in a series OF bloody
battles after heroic resistance and has collapsed
Germany does not intend, therefore to lend TO the
Continued Page 20, Column u