* * * * . When M. Painleve met the
Chamber on Tuesday he read a declaration of policy in which he attached chief importance to preserving the security of France and the balancing of the Budget. Nothing else mattered by com- parison with these " great and pressing duties." The Government would continue to carry out the Dawes Scheme and would also deal with the question of inter- Allied debts " which weigh so heavily on our rolicy and on our credit." As regards security, the Government believed in the principles of the Geneva Protocol—" that great international pact of peace." The Government would, of course, try to keep in full agreement with the Allies. of France, but in working for the development of the League of Nations and the reconciliation of Europe they would not forget the closely-related conditions— Security, Arbitration, Disarmament—on which the Geneva Protocol rested.
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