NEWS OF THE WEEK.
1T is not yet known with accuracy what M. Poincare 1 as proposed in the way of a pact between Britain and France to take the place of the pact which Mr. Lloyd George offered in vain to M. Briand. A good deal, however, has leaked out, as is usual in such cases, through the French newspopers, and enough is revealed about the general character of M. Poineare's proposals. M. Poincare evidently wants the pact to be for longer than ten years, and it is said that he suggests twenty years. He proposes that it should be reciprocal, that is to say, that while Britain would guarantee France, France would also promise to help Great Britain at sea in the event of " unprovoked aggres- sion." This, of course, would mean in practice that there would have to be a regular and constant military and naval co-operation between the two nations, with the staffs having no secrets from one another.
