UNITY OR ISOLATION?
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—" Nobody deserves peace more than the French people, who fought for it with matchless bravery." That sentence it last Saturday's Spectator should be placarded wherever a good understanding with Franco may be for any reason momentarily imperilled. The danger can only spring from prejudice or forgetfulness. Who wonders that France, almost furiously. demands security? It would be far more English to require from Germany a more complete moral disarmament than the world has yet witnessed than to blame France for over- suspiciousness. It is the man who wears the shoe who knows where it pinches. Wo stood by France in the War; we must not forsake her in the Peace. As an earnest student of the situa- tion, I would like to thank the Spectator for setting forth se exquisitely what seems to be the French point of view, and for, at the same moment, vindicating with decision the larger outlook. That, I humbly think, is the way to world-peace. Unless the nations are to fall back once again upon the old easy-going uncertainties, the ultimate fruit of which we all know too well, there must be a sustained—possibly a long- sustained—resolve to turn away from " patched-up com- promises" and to explore with unexampled patience the avenues and heights of peace. The Mount Everest expedition excites the admiration and wonder of the world. Earth and heaven will applaud the still more splendid adventurers who climb the divine mountains where the nations learn war no more.—I am, Sir, &c., J. EDWARD HARLOW. Wesley Manse, Canterbury.
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