NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE promising forward movement of Mr. Lloyd George's ideas for composing international relations and for reviving the trade of the world has suffered a check, though we hope only a short one, owing to the uneasiness of the French Chamber.
Briand has felt compelled to leave Cannes and hurry back to Paris in order to face his critics in the Chamber. Meanwhile, the real work of the Cannes Conference is at a standstill. We are bound to say that all this is very disappointing to English- men who have worked hard to persuade the Government to give a definite guarantee of security to France. That guarantee has been offered, and the first result is that M. Briand's position as Prime Minister has become more precarious than ever. We trust and believe that Frenchmen will still see that the British offer is made in all good faith and that even if it promised less than it does it would still be to the advantage of France to stand in with her friends. If only all Frenchmen would think in the temperate and urbane fashion of M. Davray, from whom we print elsewhere a very interesting communication analysing the present state of public opinion in France, all would be well.
