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Show i ;'3X READY II FIGHT FOR TREATY ALONE If Germany Doesn't Pay on May 31, Poincare Says, "Look Out" BAR LBDUC, Frame April 24. i (By 1 lie Assoeiated Press.) France j i will. If ne r-s-ary, undertake alone to m e that the trefcty of Versailles is executed ex-ecuted If the Germans default in th. ir reparations payments. Premier Poin- j eare Intimated in a speech Defore thej irencral council of the department ofi (he Weueo today. Th" thirty-first of M.v when the Germane rnUt either accept the con-j dltiona laid down by the reparations! commission or default in ihrir payment, pay-ment, la an important date for France, I eald i. premier it is Prance's duty, added, in full Independence tu As-1 Ume the duty of maintaining the in-tcSTlty in-tcSTlty "f the treaty. 'All we have ever asked and all we j ask todnv. Is the execution of the; treaty." said U Poincare, "and thut wo must have and shall have. The ! pi ice of Kurope depends upon it 'hiri future ami our national prosperity den ne":-. upon it. "It is not by precipitate action or. by derisions without reflection that we will obtain ii it is by perse'rveringr and -nhodlea I action But it must be; done." The premier declared he ardently 1 hop' .1 I 1 1 r 1 he roopcraMun of the allirs I !n case Oar many defaulted, "but ac- -ordln " fo Mie terms of the treaty."; he added "each may In se of need take, respectively, such measure? asi are deemed necessary, and we shall j not suffer it that our unfortunate 1 country succumb under the burden ofi r partitions alongside of a Germany! thai dors n,t consent to make the' necessary effort to dischanro her debts. "We shall defend in full lndepend ence ihe Prenjch cause, ai-id we shall not abandon the only arms the treaty! gives us." |