24 MAY 1924, Page 2

• This is a new reading of English history, under

which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discom- fort and inconvenience—not by any means an unattrac- tive reading ! On the question of Franco-German relations M. Herriot is very sound :— " Je sais les difficultes, main croyez-vous quo nous avons bien fait de totaliser ' rAllemagne, d'en faire un bloc et de rendre par notre absence de discrimination entre lea Allemands, la cohesion n'avait pas au lendemain de In guerre ? "

Could there be a clearer expression of what has all along been the British view ? Let us only hope that M. Herriot can act up to his words.

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