16 JUNE 1923, Page 1
In these circumstances it is reasonable to suppose that Mr.
Baldwin is asking for a plain statement of French policy. Does France really intend to require of the German Government what it is beyond its power to promise—since the passive resistance is in the main a spontaneous movement ? Of course, if France were to ray. that she was open to conviction on any point under the sun except this one point we might be able to prevail upon Germany to undertake to do everything within her official capacity to end passive resistance. We see a hope there, but this would mean in practice that Germany would have to put her fortunes in the hands of Great Britain. We have written on the whole subject elsewhere.
