Affairs sai armed but not completely, adding, that a country and people like Ger many could not be totally disarmed. She had an army of 100,000 composed of officers and non-commis-Honed officers and,-behind them, 'a reservoir of men who had proved their heroism in the War and who were capable of joining the colours for another decade. Germany, he added, possessed enormous mechanical resources and productive powers and it was impossible to argue that a country so powerfully armed for. peace from the industrial point of jiew would find difficulty in furnishig materials of war.
During this portion of his speech M. Briand Tirectly addressed the German delegates to the League, who were sitting in the front row only a few feet from the speaker. They did not join in the applause as M. Briand sat down.
Later.
Briand's speech has had a very depressing effect on the German delegation and on German circles 1. Geneva generally.
It seemed to many of his listeners that M. Briand was carried.away by his own eloquence and said things which were not intended.
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