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Show TIGER THROWS LIGHT 31 R11H SIDF IF TREATY Fixed Sum for Indemnity Was Anglo-American Idea, Clemenceau Declares PARIS. May 26. Light is thrown on tho financial aide of the Versailles' treaty with Germany by an interview with Georges Clemenceau, former French premier, secured by Alfred Capus, editor of the Gaulols, and published pub-lished in that newspaper today. "Several persons know," Bald the former premier, "that In tho peace conference con-ference discussion of a'fixed Indemnity lasted for three weeks. We should not forget that a fixed sum for indemnity was tho Anglo-American idea from the very beginning and that our allies never nev-er abandoned this viewpoint. They even made a most careful valuation of the sum Germany could pay, which was exactly 75.000.000.0000 marks in all. "Out of our share we would have to pay for the reconstruction of devastated de-vastated regions, and I need not tell you wo could not agree to such a solution." solu-tion." M, Clemenceau spoke at some length on tho immense difficulties of peace making, saying: "They were much greater than the most sincero detractors of the treaty Imagined. I said in the chamber of deputies that to preserve union among tho allies I would make every sacrifice. sacri-fice. Well, I didn't make every ono. I made only some and those principally princi-pally in form, otherwise an agreement would have been impossible." |