Last Sunday, M. Poineare continued his series of Sunday speeches.
This time the scene was Lorraine. The speeches revealed no change from the principle of " Pay or we Stay," but one passage in which M. Poincare seemed to admit that French policy is tremendously expensive is worth quoting :—• "It is Germany herself who has exhausted our long patience and shown us the need for measures of constraint. Let no one talk, then, of a militaristic France who would take pleasure in high- 432 sounding expeditions. France, who spends every day millions on account of Germany, cannot, whatever she does or whatever she wishes to do, go on longer making these advances, which arc ruining her ; she cannot any longer interrupt the work of reconstruction in her devastated villages and leave without shelter the cruelly tried populations. She has already paid more than one hundred milliards instead of Germany, and Germany would have become finally accustomed to this unjust and paradoxical state of thing' if we had not roused in her again the feeling that she has been defeated."
That is just it. The unarmed people arc defeated by the armed people, and so France " wins." But all that leaves untouched the real problem, which is how to extract money from Germany.
