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expansion, and it contains glowing praise of the new entente

cordials. M. Deloncle is only discontented with it because it does not go much farther, and looks forward to a period when all pending questions between the two States shall be similarly settled. " We look further ahead," writes the Reporter of the Committee, "to the conclusion of agreements ever closer and more lasting, which, loyally carried out by both parties without arriere pensge on a basis of mutual confidence, will cement the community and solidarity of the interests of the two countries, will constitute the surest guarantee of their prosperity, and will powerfully contribute to the maintenance of the peace of the world." That is a view which will be heartily endorsed in England.