FRENCH LOGIC
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,---The foreign policy of the French Government is, of course,. governed by the desire of security : flanked as they are by, an unfriendly neighbour with a far larger population and a growing birth rate, it could hardly be otherwise. There- fore a pledge of security in the interests of universal peace they hope to gain from other nations. But here French logicā¢ stands in the way : for democratic government means government of the people by the people for the people : therefore, that government is best which best understands the people ; therefore, that depute is best who best understands his constituency : therefore, no one can be elected depute who does not reside in his constituency. Hence a depute knows too much of his constituents and their varied interests, too little of the country at large, too much of their greeds and whims, too littleā¢ of its needs. Hence the rapid changes of French Governments, which might land a nation, -which had given France a pledge of security, in untold difficulties.ā
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