I get the gloomiest impression from a friend who has
just been in touch with official circles in France. Quite apart from the financial situation, which seems inevitably to betoken the downfall of the Boncour Government, with either Caillaux or Flandin to step in and take charge of the finances, there is a general feeling that all the news from Germany is bad. We have had, for example, in the past week the stupid decision of the Government to appoint military attaches once more, a measure which obviously lays emphasis on the idea of re-armament rather than of disarmament. The Minister for the Interior has made an eloquent speech over the sorrows of East Prussia, and the movement for the revision of the Treaty is obviously in full blast. Disarmament under such conditions, it is said, is something France would not stand to-day. My informant, whose visits to the Continent are constant, says he has never conic back so despondent. I am, of course, merely recording what was told me. There may be another side, but the source from which I get my report is good. • * * *
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