2 JUNE 1923, Page 3

We invite the special attention of our readers to the

historical analogy which we deal with in our first leading article. It may be true, as subtle persons tell us, that history never quite repeats itself. But at all events there are plenty of episodes in the past which send a kind of electric thrill through the veins as one reads about them and recognizes as one goes on how closely at point after point they resemble modern situations. Englishmen behaved brutally when they burned Joan of Arc, but they did it not out of hatred but out of an overwhelming desire to make good their position. They wanted security. So does France to-day.. Like causes produce like results.