The sitting of the French Chamber on Monday was en-
livened by a somewhat remarkable speech on foreign affairs from its former President, M. Paul Deschanel. While inclined to admit that concentration rather than expansion would have been a more judicious policy for France after 1870, M. Deschanel made it clear that he was very far from endorsing the disarmament propaganda championed by M. Jaures. " Between an aggressive policy and a policy of renunciation there is a -wide gulf." He could not applaud the view that the development of international arbitration "would permit nations to disc lass their destinies and choose their nationality." The spolacesmen of the new school argued that the saying—Pensons y toujours, n'en parlons jamais—had exerted a mischievotas influence and must be effaced. He could not agree. " IL is not Chauvinistic passions that are thus wounded, but pctriotism in its most delicate and sacred forms, for this great French people has never ceased to look upon its imperishable: right as being above des coups de force:,
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