To the Editor of the 'NORTH-CHINA Datty News."
Sin,—Reading the political news from Europe I was struck by one item. in the Chamber of Deputies a speech, which proved a verity able bombshell in all the Chancelleries of Europe, which reverberated in the White House at Washington, and the rumblings of which could be heard in Tokyo and Peking. It resuscitated the grim spectre of war. It was fiercely defiant, blame ing again Germany for the survival of a policy of force and force alone.
'This poor old' world, which after the acceptance of the Dawes plan had drawn a deep breath of relief, finds itself again in all the throes of doubt and fear and uncertainty.
It is not my intention to question the veracity of the statements made by the French leader. As a matter of fact he may be right and he may be wrong, as far as I know. But on the day following his speech, when-it became necessary to obtain Ja_vote of confidence, Mr. Herriot found that -his speech was not Jiked
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.