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...height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared: "Germany is disarmed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, but France must always be prepared against a nation of 70,000,000 people." Since the Premier ruled out debate, last week, on the Franco-British and Franco-U.S. debt settlements, neither...
That was what the Allies did last week. Marshal Foch gave Germany a clean bill of disarmament; and forthwith Article 213 of the Treaty automatically operated to transfer supervision of German armament from the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission to the Council of the League of Nations...
Commission Rests. The finale came last week when Marshal Foch, President of the Commission, announced at Paris that Germany has fully complied with her obligations to disarm under the Treaty of Versailles...
That is not true. Marshal Foch of all men best knows it is not true. But the Allies have come to realize that Germany, a great republic, cannot be forever fettered down to the letter of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany has disarmed to an extent sufficient to render France safe from aggression. Then why not accept the practical minimum of German armament now achieved, and forget that the Versailles Treaty calls for virtually total disarmament...
...Once the seat of Marshal Foch's General Staff...