The new German Chancellor, Dr. Luther, made haste to answer
it. His chief point was that if Germany had indeed been guilty of infringements of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty, the Allies ought to point them out specifically. In that case the German Government would make them good to the best of its ability. It, must . be admitted that German opinion is extremely alarmed by M.. Herriot's new tha-,is, because it puts the condition for French evacuation of the Rhineland entirely out of German control and makes it dependent on the extremely improbable con- tingency of the renewal of the Anglo-American pact of guarantee to France. Thus German suspicions that the Allies have not and never have had the faintest intention of evacuating the Rhineland at the end of the period settled in the Treaty have the appearance • of being confirmed, and the hands of the present Nation alist Government are much strengthened.
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