BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
LORD DERBY ON PRESENT RELATIONS. . {By Cattle—Press Association— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November SOtthj 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, November.3o. Lord^ Derby, formerly Ambassador to Paris, in a speech at tho Anglo-French-Society's dinner, said it was heartbreaking to see the trend of affairs in connexion with the relations between) Britain and France, and to read speeches and articles on both sides of the Channel. Foreign Secretaries were great men, but they were servants of the public. The points of difference in regard to French policy in the Middle East should be set down in black and white, in order that the people of England should know whether France was in the right or the wrong. M. Briand was a great joker, but his joke about "British capital ships fishing for. sardines" was singularly infelicitous. Lord Derby said he was on the side of France in regard to a diminution- of her army. Nevertheless, if France reduced her army, and England her navy, the United States ouglht to agree tp come to their help if either Power was attacked. The Entente should be consolidated into an Alliance.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17317, 1 December 1921, Page 8
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