Show r HERRIOT BACKS SOVIET TREATY TY 1 PARIS PARES Feb 21 UP UP Frances Frances France's former former former for- for mer mer- premier Edouard Herriot lent support today to tOia ratification lf cation of the soviet Franco Franco mu mutual ual assistance pact defending the soviet union before the chamber of at deputies as asa asa asa a bulwark of at European peace The attitude of the former president president dent of at the dominant radical s socialist social social- ft party h however o wc ve r contrasted ted sharply to that of at Jacques DorIot former leader eader of the French communist com corn denounced the partY party who denounced soviet union as s a subversive force The debate on proposed ratification tt non tion n was adjo adjourned until unU Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day ay after these th so two speeches i Herriot told t the e deputies put es th the so soviet so so- viet union with an army of t 1300 soldiers an and l reserves Was Was' was was' a loyal and powerful ally of France affording the ilia strongest arg argument argument ar ar- ar- ar g ment fo for ratification of the tr treaty at Ho He read a s letter Vetter etter from a prominent prominent prominent nent French Industrialist who appi approved ap ap- pi proved d t as Ya a pillar of ot the temple of peace and expressed belief be- be lief a policy allowing every overY country a free h hand Jid would quickly cause war between France and Germany Herriot reproached the chamber for Fra Frances Franco's ces ce's t failure to pay pay her World V war r debts to tho United States In trying to explain why the French government had failed to negotiate a settlement of the about francs Interest and principal due on on prewar Russian bonds |