FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17691, 17 February 1923, Page 11

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

10 THE BDITOB OT "THE PRESS." Sir,-'-After all you have f jmtten on the movement of the French in the Ruhr, it is generous of you to say this morning, "One .would like to see the French measures successful, and speedily successful, in securing adequate reparation," though you fear certain eventualities. But I think the question of securitv ifl probably dominant in the French mind, and that security, in the opinion of many, involves that of all European civilisation. The French care, as no other people do, for language and literature and art. There is nothing elsewhere like the French Academy and the Paris Salon. They care greatly for science, and their political administration produces contentment among their people, which is much to be envied. judging with their well-known logic, they think a financially strong Germany is dangerous to that security, whieh is as important to them as trade reconstruction is to us, and that apart from the double-dealing which Germany has so many times shown. As to their method, is it not very much the same as ours at the present moment in keeping our gunboats in the waters >"f Smyrna when they have been asked to retire? —Yours, etc., CHARLES PERRY. February 16th.