Again what does "Perfidious Al-ion" mean? It means in this con text that France does not trust England and looks, or has looked in the past, on England with suspicion, and fs always imagining that England will Tet her down. The author is most painstaking inher analysis of the problem, and at the same time most Interesting in her efforts at tracing the history of the relations between France and England from the earliest times down to the present, and she particularly stresses that during, at any rate, the period of the Great War the "Entente Cordiale" became something more than an affair of governments alone—she claims that admits. that differences of character were still presen tends that they had become complementary, where before they had been opposed, and that during the four years of the War the confidence of the two peoples in each other was.
ver shaken, and esteem was mut No doubt there is a great deal truth in this, but there is also evidence to show that even whilst lighting side by side in the Great War the clement. of tone to dear with and must be read word for word to be appreciated, but its 310 pages contain a great dear of immensely interesting information, and whilst the deductions drawn may not "commend themselves to all readers, there is no doubt that Madame Tabouis is sincere and certainly very well informed. She traces the divergence in the views of the two nations which developed over land out of the Treaty of Versailles. /She gives decided and well balanced opinions of the course world polities have taken during the last twenty (Continued on page 307)
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