12 AUGUST 1922, Page 1

We tell the French that there is no hope of

getting anything out of Germany unless we first put Germany on her feet and enable her to become prosperous enough to pay France and the rest of the Allies what she owes them. But France, unsecured—. as she thinks—by any agreement with the Allies, shivers at the thought of putting Germany on her feet. Therefore, it is but right and natural to say that the Powers who want Germany to be put on her feet should promise the French that no such German revival shall increase the danger of France.