* * M. Poincare has made two speeches, one last
Sunday at S. Germain and the other at Bar-le-Due on Monday, which are worth attention because they are the first public declarations made by any member of the new French Government of National Union since Parliament adjourned in July. He referred temperately enough to the remarks attributed to Herr Stresemann about War guilt, but there was no mistaking the purpose of his words when he laid it down that every effort at rapprochemen with Germany must be subject to the Treaties into which France had entered. He said that though France could never forget the wrongs inflicted upon her by the former Empires of Central Europe she had never intended her policy towards those who were once her enemies to one of bitterness. Consistently with the upholding of he Treaties she was profoundly anxious for peace.
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