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FRANCE'S NEW POSITION
Peace by Bargaining?
The road of general appease- If France is not exactly "on the ment winds toward Spain. Ges- tures between London and Rome pot" by her loss of power and reflect the possibility of remov-
come.
;
general influence in Europe, she ing the Spanish monkey wrench. From the nature of these ges- is not far from it. Her dominant tures we may see that the Berch- post-war dreams have evaporated shake-up loosened more than tesgaden Godesberg-Munich and her prestige on the Contin- Czechoslovakia's hold on territory and western friends. It apparent- ent has greatly receded. That as ly has all but released the grasp much as any other reason ex-of world public opinion on that active idealism which the peo- plains. Mr. Chamberlain's self-ples heretofore had insisted be
respected by statesmen. nvited trip to Paris at this par-
While there can be two points {ticular juncture, for it is very of view about the relative prac- essential that Britain and France tical value of so-called “idealistic" and "realistic" methods ingan should measure up their powers opportunistic world, it is well to of organisation for the strains to recognise that a clear choice has now been made between these methods. It is a choice between collective security and democra- Spreading Pan-Germanism tic procedures in international leaves the French still frankly affairs which were the best hopes that came with Allied victory in apprehensive despite Munich and 1918, and those methods of in- bargaining which all talk about appeasement, while ternational
preceded the World War. Italy remains a disturbing neigh- As the new method begins to bour. Internally, France's finan deal with Spain its relation to League of Nations principles be- It may be cial and business conditions are comes mirage-thin.
argued that the Czechoslovakian Dala-settlement in removing errors of dier showed his special concern Versailles was not altogether at variance with the aims of collec- over this in his Chamber speech tive security as described in justifying the Munich agreement. Article XIX of the League coven- ant: to make territorial adjust- He secured his "full powers" ments without war and to correct virtually on
this plea. French some of the hasty decisions of Versailles. That argument can be expenses have been a long one on both sides. But the Ethiopians were not attacked in leaping and France must meet the name of minorities. The Span- the big bill for recent mobilisa tion.
dangerously damaged.
ish Government did not owe its existence to Versailles.
Yet what is the price of a As a member of democracy's Spanish settlement to be, and
| big three, French ability to breast who is to make the initial pay- ment? The price reportedly is to the strains and trials resulting from a new position in Europe is be recognition by France and watched not only by the other Britain of Italy's Ethiopian con- two members of the trio, the quest, and the closing of the French border to supplies for United States and Great Britain,
but by the authoritarian regimes the Loyalist armies in Spain. When the French Ambassador to
land
2e group of smaller powers Rome 'begins talks on the latter
reshaping of France's en question. France will have sanc-
tire foreign policy on the Europ- tioned a conquest which by pre- ean continent will provide scope Munich law was illegal. for a display of all the dexterous Thus as we move along the finesse, and diplomatic logic that road to a possible general ap the Quai d'Orsay is famed for, in peasement it is well, to remember said at the the months to come. Certainly what the signpost the foundations for rebuilding last fork. Europe's peace to-day French foreign policy are atlis in the balance of bargaining.