The debate was continued on Thursday, M. de Pressense and
M. Jaures, the Socialist leaders, making speeches of great significance, and showing that their anxiety is as great as our own that the Agreement with France should be con- sidered as a pledge of peace, and not as a combination directed against any third Power. M. Delcasse closed the debate in a similar strain, and pointed out that the two States benefited equally by the Agreement. Special stress was laid by him on the Morocco clauses, and upon the fact that the goodwill of Italy and Spain was also secured in regard to the African Empire of France. In general, concluded M. Delcasse, " what France had given up was particularly coveted by England. What England abandoned was particularly precious to France. Both parties ought to be satisfied, and abroad the satisfaction had been no less keen, for the Anglo-French Agreement was looked upon as a new and powerful guarantee of peace." After M. Delcasse's speech the debate was adjourned until Saturday, but there seems, happily, no doubt that the Agreement will now be adopted by the Chamber, if not unanimously, at any rate by an over- whelming majority.
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