24 MAY 1930, Page 2

France and Disarmainent Security has taken on quite a different

complexion, as we have said, since President Hoover and Mi. Ramsay MacDonald pointed to the " better way " of mutual confidence and political peace. Notoriously the Paris Press does not represent the whole of 'French opinion, and this fact is emphasized by the recent series of articles by M. Leon Blum in Le Populaire. M. -Blum says that the conception of the nation in arms—made so dear to -the hearts of the French Left by M. Jaures—is out of date in the changed circumstances of the world of 1930. Me echoes the feelings of many when he says, " We are equally sick and' tired of the suspicion and pettifogging procrastination of conferences, and the `sluggish or evasive action of diplomatists and technicians." . * * *