ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18445, 5 January 1922, Page 5

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

' ERRORS OF THE PAST. J. ■' ~~ CRITICISM BY THE TIMES. FRANK, OPEN DISCUSSION URGED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 3. “ If, there is a danger of the relations between Great Britain and France, through the carelessness, neglect, or obduracy of the Anglo-French Governments leading to conflict rather than to a deepening of peace, if they become a check on progress rather than its best inspiration; then it is time that, we had a new Entente,” say.s The Times in a leading article** Summing lip the situation; it says: ‘“We must have the Entente a close union with a purpose and aim worthy of the common sacrifice during- the war and for a; great purpose beyond ourselves. An agreement can only ha re-established if the points of difference and divergence are frankly and openly discussed. The profound error of'all interAllied discussions for a long time _past has been that the differences of opinion have not been harmonised. The meeting of Supreme Council only ended in a sham agreement. Dissensions, carefully veiled, for decency’s sake, from the public eye, have been allowed ito grow and rankle so that we are brought to the present pass with a pronounced and dangerous conflict of policy regarding the Near East, and with widely-differing conceptions regarding urgent European problems,”—Times.