London, May 6.
Everyone who comes back from France at the present time bears testimony to the extreme nervousness which prevails in that country—and, for the matter of that, in Belgium' also—as to the political outlook.. You already hear talk of "Perfide Albion," you already notice books printed in Germany and sold on the Paris bookstalls entitled "In Paris in Five Years," you take up the French papers and you will see an amount of criticism about Great Britain which is not exactly pleasant. You will not notice much about Anierica because the French never expected much from America and so they are not disappointed. This may not be flattering to America, but I think that President Wilson and the Senate, operating from entirely different points of view, have between them quite disillusionized France, which once seems tohave considered that America, with her idealism, might rejuvenate Europe come to the rescue of the civilization of the future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.