• Herr Stresemann is also reported to have asked that
the plebiscite in the .Saar Basin, which is due in nine years, should be held sooner or that it should be abandoned altogether, on the ground that the population is almost entirely German. We should be glad if the Allies could be indulgent' in this matter, as we are none too proud of the record of - the League in connexion with the Saar Basin. :The French have-acted aggressively there, and the League, for reasons which we always thought -inadequate, has failed to assert its authority. We have not space to refer to other subjects which are • said to have been _discussed in -the hopeful Franco- German conversation, but we must make one remark• in conclusion. Several• French newspapers have been writing as though Great Britain would- be jealous and- alarmed When she heard of the rapprochement between - France and Germany. Cannot French writers under- stand that, so. far from being alarmed,- every sensible person here is delighted at the prospect that -the motives which wire at work . at Loearno are really producing results, and that one of the chief dangers to peace seems in a fair way to be removed ? * *
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