NEWS OF THE WEEK
IN foreign affairs Mr. Austen Chamberlain is going thrOugh the same pairifiil experiences that afflicted his-predecessors at the Foreign Office: 'He started with -3; strong predisposition in favour of France ; he is by • training and by natural inclination a strong Franco- and he - took" up the negotiations with France in - the belief that- a solution could be reached along the road Of -respecting French sentiments and even French prejudices. We fear, however, that he is finding the stubborn and shortsighted logic of French 'policy-a very stiff barrier. - We do not feel at all hopeless, for we reeogniZe that -progress, though there is not very much, i-i-'being -made in a promising -direction. All the same, - if is impossible not to feel constant anxiety because When • a -man with Mr. Chamberlain's motives meets with rebuffs and .disillusionment he • is more apt to lOse patience than a man who has from the beginning expected slightgr response.
