6 MAY 1922, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George has proposed that a meeting-of the Supreme

Council should be held at San -Remo in order to help on the Genoa -Conference. M. Poineare has evidently no desire.'for any anoh -m.eeting, at least not for a month or two, -and,perhaps not then. What we fear is that- if -an offer to Russia is finally agreed-upon, it may be so full of compromises that it will mean

n othing. Rather than such a conclusion it would be 'better to use the Russo-German agreement as a nucleus, expand and fortify it—eand incidentally strip it of its Eggers—..by making a series of agreements as to finance and trade between neighbours here, there and everywhere. It is essential to get trade going.