23 JULY 1921, Page 2

Let us assume for the moment that all the French

allegations of German intimidation and preparedness are true, and that there are no counter Polish preparations. Even so, is not all this a further reason for the meeting of the Supreme Council which alone can finally settle the question ? As to the enforce- ment of that deciaion, does not France avow herself willing and even eager to send a whole division to Silesia to do it ? Let France send her division by all means, but let the Council meet and give it some definite decision to enforce, but do not let a division be sent merely as a sort of army of occupation with no decided allied policy behind it. Lord Curzon, as we learn on Thursday when we go to press, has sent a Note in this sense to the French Government. We must say frankly that there is something very unpleasant in the further postponements of the Supreme Council's meetings which France is continually finding reasons for. He who believes in his case is not always putting off the triaL