NEWS OF THE WEEK
M i ANY of the newspapers have gone badly astray this week in writing about the proposed Pact. Some of them have gone so far as to assume that it is settled that Great Britain will go with her entire forces to the aid of France if France should be attacked by Germany. We do not say for a moment that Great Britain would not go, or Ought not to go, to the rescue of France if the situation of 1914 Were reproduced, We believe, indeed, that we should be compelled to help France if only to protect ourselves, for in these days of aircraft and long-range guns the Channel unfortunately no longer serves as a moat defensive. But to write about such things as being of the vessence of the proposed Pact is to get a very long way `'from the real subject of discussion. It is evidently '*`necessary to recall the facts. * * * *
