It is puzzling and discouraging to read that even M.
de Jouvenel, who has been attacking M. Briand for luke- warmness about the League, has said in an address to the Inter-Parliamentary Union that " French bayonets in the Rhineland are the only guarantee of peace." Professor Gilbert Murray, as our readers know, has ranged himself on the side of M. de Jouvenel in demanding that the League should have much more work and responsibility placed upon it. Lord Cecil also presumably agrees with M. de Jouvenel. It is difficult to imagine that they will find him a helpful collaborator if he really holds this language about the Rhineland occupation. Perhaps his speech has been misreported. On the other hand, M. Briand's address to the Union was in effect a solemn promise that he means to pursue a policy of con- ciliation. This declaration may have important results.
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