13 MAY 1922, Page 2

Regarding French policy as an impediment to his own special

plans for reconstruction, Mr. Lloyd George is " -unwilling to listen to anyone." Yet, says M. Millet, every sensible Frenchman could have warned Mr. Lloyd George that the Genoa Confer- ence was bound to be a failure unless there was a preliminary understanding. "Mr. Lloyd George has round him people who ask questions rather than advisers." For the first time the relations of France and Great Britain, according to M. Millet, have become " falsified by passion." Thus Mr. Lloyd George, according to this view, is in real danger of breaking the Entente without in the least believing that he has any desire to break it