16 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 2

In dealing with foreign affairs, Mr. MacDonald declared that France

had nothing to fear. Reparations and the question of the Ruhr must be considered from the point of view not of France alone, but from that of Great Britain and the whole of Europe. As an agreed policy was emphatically necessary to peace, France would have nothing to complain of, but would rather find her security in that policy. He was remarkably optimistic about the approach of an early and thorough agreement with France. Germany must be brought into the League, and he hoped that Russia would come in too. He prophesied that when America saw the League at last working out the European problem, she also would come in.