FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 20 February 1919, Page 8

FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.

Parii, Febrnary 18. The Echo de Paris believes that the League project frepresenia a coming struggle between two con tending conceptions, namely, a super-state absorbing part of the sovereignty of existing States, and an alliance of eqnal independence associated for defence. The same psper thinks Franca will be insufficiently gnarled in the absence of an international force. Le Journal regards the League as a formidable engine for the service of peace so long as it is prepared swiftly to use its strength but force most still te subordinate to its de cision to intervene. The peril is that it may intervene when it is too late. Le Ganloia questions if an inter national force would strengthen France’s security, but postpones a definite opinion until details are available of what amounts to the foundation of a new world. Other opinions regard the late of annexations as staled. President Wilson characterised Germany’s colonial system as one ot extermination in order to get possession of helpless people’s land. At the same time he impliedly landed England's policy, under which many weak peoples, beginning as colonies, Lave been lifted into the sphere of self-government