25 JULY 1925, Page 2

For the rest Germany abides by her promise to regard

the Eastern frontiers of France as inviolable, but wants to be assured that if there were disputes about the other frontiers her interests would be in the keeping of the League as a whole and not in that of France alone as the guarantor of the frontiers where trouble threatens. Our own view is that though the difficulties are real there is a better opportunity than ever before of reaching a settlement. Everything depends, however, upon bringing Germany into the League as an equal. If she has to accept duties and responsibilities under worse. conditions than anybody else accepts them she would never be a willing co-operator. Besides on such terms the Covenant itself would not work.