The Nationalist leaders are said to be divided as to
whether they should join with the Freedom Party (the real Diehards) in uncompromising hostility to the Report or should try, while accepting the Report in substance, to Secure the alteration of details. They cannot be re- 760 mind0 too plainly, however, that the Report, as its authors insist e, is an indivisffile whole. No one pretends that, eve' 'sentence of the Report is inspired, but any attempt to re-write the Report—that would be the meaning of any negotiations on the subject—would involve indefinite delay and almost certainly a final breakdown. The acceptance of the Report is Germany's one way of freedom and security, as it is also the only available remedy for all the ills of France and of the rest of Europe. It is some satisfaction tb be able to add that the French comment on the elections has been temperate. The Temps in particular deprecates any idea of setting French Nationalism at the throat of German Nationalism. That, it justly remarks, would expose France to the charge of cultivating private enmity against Germany.
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