On Friday, September 28th, the Atherican reply- to the Anglo-French
naval compromise -was delivered at the Foreign Office and was published- in the papers of -last Saturday. :Thus the British--public, is now in -the eurious position of having before it the reply in full to a proposal With -which it is only fragmentarily, acquainted; The French .Government are credited with the desire to make "public- the whole record oT the Anglo-French negotiations. :This record has been sent to the American Government, perhaps in_ response, to the hint. of .Mr. Kellogg, who remarked in the American Note that his Government had not been adequately informed of the facts. Now that The compromise is dead publication does not seem to matter so much as it did, but it is still desirable to overtake some of the preposterous rumours which grew up because .the facts were not accessible.- Mr. Britten, the Chairman of the Naval AffairSCommittee in the American House of Representatives, for instance, has described the comprii- mise• as a -Treaty---a strange, description of a formula which was merely to be laid before. the Preparatory Commission of the, Disarmament Conference in the hope that it would be universally adopted.
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