10 MAY 1919, Page 2

It was announced in Paris on Wednesday that President Wilson

would propose to the Senate, and Mr. Lloyd George to Parliament, " an engagement, subject to the approval of the Council of the League of Nations, to go immediately to the assistance of France in the case of an unprovoked attack by Germany." The importance of a Triple Defensive Alliance of this kind is obvious and far.reaching. It supplements the Peace Treaty, and strengthens the League of Nations at the very point concerning which France is naturally anxious and uncertain. We hope that the Senate will be able to approve.