Paris, May 16.
Mr. Lloyd George's sudden admonition to the Poles seems likely to have more than a passing influence on Anglo-French relations. It demonstrates that England has her own point of view about European questions, that this point of view can only be temporarily reconciled with that of France, and that when the two countries, after great efforts on the part of their statesmen, arrive at an understanding, it is unlikely to last.
It may be that the conferences only succeed because irritating questions are put aside. Directly the conference is over, each—side begins to put a different inter-Vyagreed upon. When Mr. Lloyd retation on what has been mutual-
arge predicts that there will be less and less resort to force, he seems, from the French standpoint, to take up very much the same attitude as the men who, ten years ago, argued that England and Germany could not come to blows because such immense interests were at stake on both sides. The British Premier's speech is read here as meaning that England would not object to give Germany Upper Silesia if by so doing she could win some title to Germany's gratitude, but the French view is that one can never satisfy Germany, and that if you gave her Upper Silesia to keep her quiet she would want something else, all the time with an eye to recovering the position that made her so dangerous in 1914.
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