It will 'be remembered that at the Peace Conference in
Paris after the War both Great Britain and America offered to sign treaties guaranteeing the security of France and 'that this plan broke down only because the whole peace arrangement approved of by President Wilson was thrown over by his countrymen. We can see no harm—on the contrary, we can see much good— in guaranteeing France. She is a prey to her fears and if there was ever again a real case of unprovoked aggression we should have to join with her in any case. If Germany behaved again as the mad dog of Europe and invaded _ France we could not tolerate. immediately across the. Channel German long range guns and aeroplane Stations. But surely it is a wildly- reactionary move to promote such a scheme as this into the position of highest importance when the far more promising proposal is before us of a mutual arrangement under which we should receive promises as well as give them.
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