27 MARCH 1926, Page 2

There is, of course, exaggeration in all this, but one

can understand .the disillusionment with which President Coolidge must have received., such a report. For our part we do not hy. any _means regret_it. We have con- sistently_ deplored the _militarism of Europe, and it is actually an advantage to have said for us from the other side of the Atlantic what it might he unwise for us to say so plainly ourselves. To be quite blunt, the issue is this. _ If for the sake of maintaining_ the appear- ance of concord with France we are too polite in our criticisms of her, we shall postpone the date when we can hope for what is more important—the co-operation betWeen ourselves and the United States.

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