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Show CAILLAUX HOSTILE TO UNITED STATES "Very Secret" Document Is Laid Before Committee of Deputies at Paris. PAKIS, Dec. 21. Documents sent by the French emtjassy at Rome to the foreign for-eign office in regard to former Premier Caillaux and laid before Ui committee of eleven which Inquired into the question of suspending the immunity of M. Caillaux Cail-laux and Deputy Loustalot Included one marked "very secret" and dated February Febru-ary t, 1917. It read: "Monsieur Le Prestre came to the Palais Pa-lais Famese accompanied by Coiond lo-' lo-' el, Belgian military attache, n ncl was received by a secretary of the embassy, lie repeated at the end of a i onvM'iaUon that had borne on other subjects, the essentials of the declarations that he had recently made to Jl. Mabilleau. Tnen he added what is reproduced hereafter in substance: ' 'I have had before mv eves at the United States embassy from which I depend de-pend (the French phrase ready: Dont je suis le ressortissanu and I have been able to read leisurelv an account of the conversation con-versation of M. Caillaux with the two monseignors of the Vatican. That account ac-count had been brought there, by an Irish prelate who was not Anglophone and who is, above all, Francophile. 'It had been brought there because in his conversation M. Caillaux had also expressed ex-pressed opinions hostile to the United States, represented by him as an economic eco-nomic adversary and a competitor against central Europe.' " PARIS, Dec. 21. The Matin today prints a declaration made by Premier Clemenceau on Sunday to the parliamentary parliamen-tary committee dealing with the case of Senator Caillaux. In part the premier said : 'I have been at the head of the government gov-ernment for a month. I have had many revelations of every kind, but particularly concerning the military, and r must tell you in all sincerity that the state of mind of the army and that of the civilians and military action make but one whole. "That's --what happened the. ltith of April (the date of the French offensive In Champagne, the losses which have resulted in numerous charges and counter-charges in parliament). I do not want to go into the case of what occurred then. I have my own ideas on the subject. I may be wrong, but all the same I saw, for I was in an observation post on the Champagne front the 16th of April when the soldiers passed, and nothing could have been finer. "Two days later you know what happened. hap-pened. We must not be subjected to a fresh trial at this stage of the war. The morale is excellent. It. has never been better, but the poilus often look to the rear. Hate grows. Some are in the firing fir-ing line; others are not. There are privi-leged privi-leged persons, 'embusques.' There are men in factories. Stories spread; evil passions rise. "You see you are as responsible for the national spirit as you are for arming the frontiers defended by our. guns and men. It is from that point of view that I implore im-plore you to be guided by the idea that without bias of any kind' for or against Caillaux you have above all the duty of inspiring public confidence, not in the government, but in yourselves. That is lo say. as republican, representatives show that you are in agreement with public pub-lic feeling not to prosecute a man, this brought to the light of day in a way that will permit of no doubt whatever. If you do that at the present moment you will have rendered the greatest service ser-vice possible to your country." |