27 JANUARY 1923, Page 12

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—May I suggest that

both Punch and yourself miss the point in France's action when you allude to M. Poincare insisting that " if the goose will not lay as many golden eggs as he requires, he will wring the abandoned creature's neck." The position appears to be rather that France knows that the goose never was laying more eggs ; but, instead of being gathered into the Government basket, they are being laid away, and France thinks she will find them in Herr Stinnes's larder. And in this connexion will England be wise in supply- ing coal to cook them ?—I am, Sir, &c., Egerton Hall, nr. Bolton. E. DEAKIN.