10 MARCH 1923, Page 1
It is the absence of new events in the Rhineland,
not their occurrence, that is focusing the public opinion of the world upon that area. By the middle of February the stage of "waiting for something to turn up" had been reached by both sides. To-day the world is beginning to realize that nothing has turned up. No new unsuspected but fortunate element has supervened to end an apparently insoluble deadlock. Anxiety grows. Hence the almost pathetic desire of the public for a lead,
