haVc written in our first leading article about the '
situation, but ive May summarize it here by saying that • an. attempt is being made not - to - revive the .original guarantees for the security of the- eastern frontier of - France Offried-by Great -Britain- and= America,' but to form-a -larger group - of guarantors- which. would include Germany,- -It- is; at -all e'rent-S; -clear -that M. Herriot has no objection in principle to entering into a pact of security with Germany. That is a distinct point to the good. But the- crux is Poland, and it is a' very serious one. -France really wants a guarantee of all the frontiers as they exist now. Germany will go so far as to promise that she will not attempt to change the Polish frontier by._ force and that she will sulanit every dispute to arbitration ; but she' will not Countenance any 'seder-nil assertion that her eastern frontier is permanent. - -What Germany proposes is really a very good foundation for a final settlement.. Nations which look more to kood will and, to a development of the .machinerY and the authority of international law than to military balances of power would be perfectly satisfied• with what has happened. They would accept it as the solid basis of an arrangement and would go full steam ahead.
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