PEOPLE AND THINGS
By HAROLD NICOLSON
Ithe Sunday Times this week there appeared a short 1 but foolish article from the pen of Monsieur Pierre Etienne Flandin—at one time a regrettable, but now un- regretted, Prime Minister of France. Monsieur Flandin always reminds me of a sea-lion just turned fifty. He is enormous: he is sleek: he is complacent: and the nimble- ness of his head contrasts strangely with the impression of weighty consistency, of pompous malevolence, which his frame conveys. In this article the Deputy for the Yonne contends that the Germans must always remain a dominant race ; that if defeated in the next war their lust for power would assume a Communist instead of a Fascist com- plexion ; that for this reason we must regard the problem of Danzig as " merely an episode in the revision of the Peace Treaties " ; and that the acquired might of the western democracies must therefore be used " in a great and indispensable effort to reconstruct Europe and the world on a pacific basis."
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