| Show TARO TARDIEU lEU SAYS t THERE WAS NO NOI I SECRET PACT Clemenceau Aide Clears Up Latest Treaty 4 Sensation BY LW lonnor to the lIC States 1924 by The Tho Co Consoli Consolidated soll- soll dated Press Association Repudiation by Llo Lloid Llod d George of I hi secret compact Inton low I apparently hue has not nol convinced tho French that he ha did not make moAt the statement state state- ment attributed to him Tardieu alto pla ed a prominent part In the th events under discussion declares In Inh lo h his I dispatch today that these state state- statements state i ments square with the tho attitude orthe or of the British premier during the peace conference PARIS Feb Woodrow 9 Woodrow sons Wil-son's sons son's death sake akes lakes France back rive five ears to the time when the Lill realized that victory had not all reason for lor solidarity And Mr r Llod Lloid Georges George's Inter inter- Interview view lew already half hale 0 ed eon con con corning the alleged separate agree agree- agreements agreements ments between Mr lIson M IS ilson and M 51 during th the peace con con- con conference ference ferenee comes opportunely to pro proe e that agents of dh Islon and Here ere already hard at even eon during that conference As CI s a s collaborator and confidant the writer can solemnly declare that the supreme need for solidarity among the victors was ne neler er absent from his hla thoughts Clemenceau did not belle and believe and e andIn In this he ho differed from Mr VII Wll Wil- Wil son that son that the league of nations nation a pact written Into the treaty would establish permanent peace among men He to had faith In the ultimate development of or this Institution and was willing to carry tarry it further than Wilson by placing a military force foree at Its disposal But Dut he consIdered that a a period of was as and Insisted that durIng this period France lr nce must ha have hae e guar guar- guarantees guar guarantees antee of security of another kind whence the league debate of 1919 on the control of 01 German arma armaments arma- arma monte ments and occupation of the Rhine land RhIne RhIne- RhIneland Rhineland land DEBATE REOPEN j ED By reopening this debate debato with 1 lather ather questionable taste on the morro morrow of or Wilson s a death Lloyd George merely resumed his 1919 position Ibis 1111 position was one onO or of insularity which the tie tie- ne negotiators anxious to a avoid old an open break brcak did not reveal re eal to the public but which they all alt oa saw aaa Sir Llo d Georg Georga Geor ne never er understood nor wanted to understand the I ranch rench I I viewpoint that In case tit ot any eon con ration conflagration France desh ed not only to o be protected from defeat but also from froni Invasion which she ex- ex ex experienced three tithes times within a century The more Inore Wilson with this Just pI of ot France Franco s a policy the tho more Lloyd Loyd George Georg showed Indifference and C even Con on hoe hos- hos hostility to it When hen on March H 14 1919 on or loyd Lloyd Georges George's Initiative e ho he and Mr W lison proposed that France Franc renounce all occupation of the th Rhineland In exchange for lor treaties or of guarantee Clemenceau and the writer replied that such pacts could not take the place of or material runT guar guarantees and furthermore france must consider the possibility of oC non ratification of or such auch pacts pacta 6 This question was as discussed for lor six weeks and only on April 20 did 1 Mr Wilson lIson accept the view viewpoint lew- lew point and approve articles T Tao 0 days daya later though with Ith bad grace Llo Llod d George also approved these clauses The text of or these clauses had been In the hands or of Wilson and Lloyd George for two weeks Moreo Moreover er all details ot of otI th these ae negotiations w were cre ore pUblished in 1921 In tho writers writer's book The Truth About the Treat Treaty In attempting to make this per per- per perfectly regular reg procedure appear a Clemenceau agreement Lloyd George h has placed himself In a 0 false Calse situation from which ho be h hohas behas has haa been obliged to escape by em- em em embarrassed explanations which look like a retraction Since he re reopened re- re reopened reopened opened thIs ibIs debate by wrongly complaining of his hla colleagues colleague's methods It Is the writers writer's duty to recall that the only oDly worthy blameworthy worth blame step In the whole affair was as Llo d when two weeks after the treaty had been beu submitted to Rantzau for tor signature Lloyd George again called In qua ques- ques tion question all he be had signed In the pro pre Ious lous month concerning occupation of the Ito Rhine reparations Polish and everything else At that time between May MIlY 26 and June 16 15 1919 Lloyd George i despite the fact tact that he ho had sIgned plenIpotentiaries the final draft with other tried to have It lunda- lunda re revised Clemenceau was obliged to th threaten to resign and an 1 Inform the tho French of Lloyd Georges George's failure to keep til his word I G C During this period Mr Er chaffing under the pressure Sure Lloyd George was WM attempting to bring g upon him had to break oft off the die die- one day by saving Ing to his British colleagues You malto mako me mesick mesIck sick All Au these facts belong to history and should be kno known knon n by all who believe today the world would be happier If 11 the victors had maIn maIn- tamed In peace one fourth of the solidarity they maintaIned In war wa warThe The writer ariter does doca not like retro retro- e polemics but since Others start them he must muot say as a Wit Wit- Witness witness miness tt- tt ness to the whole hole proceedings proceeding that two men roen even when they dIsagreed mot heartily never lot lost eight sIght of this need for they solidarity solidarity they yere Vere Wilson lIson and Clemenceau But Mr Sir Lloyd G George orge who ran ren- dared dered such magnificent service s durin during the war became tho the agent of discord and selfishness The Tho ariter riter r-grets r to say alloY this but the th truth compels It |
