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The French arc making use of Mr. Austen Chamberlain's friendliness

to extract from us certain promises at the expense of terrible risks to Europe. Mr. Chamberlain is, as we expected, behaving most patiently and courteously, but we venture to predict that as time passes he will' find a policy of complacency increasingly difficult. We' should like to appeal to the French Government to remember the simple but important psychological fact. that a man who has tried yielding ground, and who has had to acknowledge that it has been of no avail, is never an easy co-operator. As his mood changes under the compulsion of facts it changes seriously.

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