The Daily News and Leader of Tuesday published a "message
" from M. Jonnart, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, conveyed to the British public through Mr. Harold Spender. M. Jonnart said that the French Government "desires nothing but peace." As for the new military preparations, " they are undertaken simply and solely in the cause of national defence." He adds that "France faces the situation with profound calm and with absolute trust in her future." Mr. Spender also visited M. Anatole France, who, speaking of the new Army Law, said, " It is the end of French culture! " But we need not join prematurely in the sobs which Mr. Spender mingles with those of M. Anatole France, since M. Jonnart is still capable of sending suck a message as Mr. Spender records, and the attitude of the Frenchman in the cafe (on whom the new obligations of service will fall, and not on the brilliant writer in his study) is, on Mr. Spender's own admission, " rather one of resignation than of aggression."
