6 JANUARY 1923, page 9

France, Remember, In Occupying Large Tracts Of Territory...

to enforce payment, will not only be, as Mr. Boner Law well pointed out, destroying German credit, and thus the one hope of payment, but will be, in all probability, converting......

Though The Levers Of Government May, For The Moment, Be

in the hands of a militaristic or semi-militaristic party, there is now, as always, in France a very large body of opinion which is intensely pacific, which desires to trade and......

Our Main Reason For Optimism Is The Very Imminence Of

catastrophe, which, in spite of superficial indications to the contrary, we cannot believe is really hidden from the statesmen of France. Though the French people may be angry,......

News Of The Week.

A s we write the fate of the Paris Conference, and therefore of co-operation and diplomatic sympathy between France and Britain, hangs by a thread. The adjourned COnference,......

But If These Abstract Considerations Are Strong, Even...

those which arise the moment we begin to think out the practical steps which France must take in order effectively to exact pledges from Germany. To begin with, the French army......

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