Show CEM CAUSTIC COMMENT One more striking proof of o the deep feeling In Europe over o Amer America's leas ica's attempt to collect the war debts la b offered by Clemenceau time war time premier of France Franca who In Iii an open letter to PresIdent Coolidge declares France will go goso goso goso so far tar and no further In debt set set- settlement settlement settlement Clemenceau resents the debt attitude of the United States and compares Americas America's treatment of Germany with this country's dem demand nd made on France The Tiger uses some strong language and ana In la one paragraph of his bis letter makes makes a frank state state- statement statement ment meet which might be bo construed as devoId of the tho diplomatic Hitherto England's European policy has consisted above e all the tho says Clemenceau In holding continental nations In la c check eek b by In- In IntervenIng Intervening In Intervening and playing oft off one co agaInst the other I im am convinced vl ced that the man In the Is be beginning ginning to open his eyes eye to wIder views y Tod-y Today It Is toward America th that t Frances France's feeling of o uneasiness Is principally directed If IC nallon nations nation's were but business houses bankers accounts would settle the fate of the world You are claiming from us payment of ofa ofa ofa a debt not of ol commerce but of war ar You know v as we do that our treasury Is empty In such sucha a 8 case the debtor must sign prom promissory notes noles and that Is just jest what ou u are asking us to do and yet each of us ought to that settlement In cash will be made on the day fixed Now It Is la an open secret that jn in this affair there are only Im dates of payment which will 1111 lead up to a loan with solid security in la the shape of our terri tern territorial tonal possessions as was as the case for Turkey Such a thing Mr PresIdent I am bound to tell you rou 1 0 we shall never accept France Is not Dot for tor sale even een to her friends Independent she came cameto cameto cameto to us independent we shall shell leave her Ask yourself whether ac- ac accordIng according ac according cording to President Monroe you would leel led eel otherwise about the American continent Thatis That Is a severe ere reference Clemen Clemenceau eau made to England and anda anda anda a strong rebuke for tor America but buthe buthe buthe he has more cutting g words In whIch ha hEl shows his fighting it It for ho he says cays Wherein have we Ie tailed failed to ful ful- ful- ful fulfill 1111 fill all the demands of duty Ought we e to have ha surrendered our fort fort Teases to German Germany when she do- do demanded de demanded them from us under pen pen- penalty penalty penalty alty of a declaration of war Will anyone get up and prove we e have o fought badly Yes Yea we have thrown every everyl everything everything thIng Into the blood abyss abyss blood and money as England and the United States did on their side but It was Frances France's territory that was as devastated scientifically For three deadly years we awaited thIs de declaration from America France France Is the frontier of liberty three three years of o blood and money oozing from every pore Come to our villages and read the endless lists of their dead and make comparisons It ii you wilL Was this not a bank account the loss of this vital force of o youth In so many words be he declares Prance France will resist a settlement whIch will call for tor the sacrifice ce of territory It has been sug sug- suggested Jested that France Fiance turn over some someo of its Island Iland possessions In the western hemisphere In la cancella cancella- cancellation cancellation tion of the War debt There Is some for tor French re- re resentment re It If you write sentiment Into the adjustment of the debts but when In all the past hare have na- na nations na nations made settlements dealing With debts except upon pon the terms which prevail In la the banking World I In 1890 and up to 1896 the American people were deeply In debt to Europe and Europe InsIst InsIst- InsIsted Insist cd ed cd on being paid In order to pay America had to go through through a a period of serious depression That more or less was as a private affaIr In which the money lender de- de demanded de demanded his mone money moncy- Ii IA Nations and bankers In the past patt havet havel required their debtors to pay even though the payIng brought grief That same rule Is beIng applied by the United States to France Is that course of action ac oc action tion right right Coolidge says sas yes Clemenceau answers no Bismarck told the French Ocr Ger Ger Germany many wanted anted a billion dollars In- In In Indemnity de before the troops of Germany would evacuate French territory That was In 1872 The TheIron Theiron Theron Iron chancellor confided to his friends that he Intended to bleed France white Clemenceau must have been thinking back to those days when he be said If It France were to disappear under the blows of her enemies and of ot her herI I friends there would remain of her a name of ot which to be proud In that paragraph Is a note of defiance which carries man many pos possibilities To say the least least the aftermath of ot the war has baa brought dIsappointments |