The newest political departuie—on which its authors are to be
cordially congratulated, is French Without Tears for M.P.s. The sponsor of the plan is the Anglo-French Parlia- mentary Committee, which finds that a number of its members, realising, on the political side, the closeness of our relations with France, and on the personal side, their own inability to ask for a packet of cigarettes at Boulogne except in their own language, would like " to have an opportunity of polishing up their French." So an opportunity is to be made, " in a committee-room upstairs once a week for an hour," with a competent French teacher in attendance; there is to be no charge. The idea is admirable and the principle deserves extension. In view, for example, of the new close- ness of other relations some M.P.s might desire not only to acquire French polish but to polish their Polish. Jews.
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