10 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 17

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THREE great interdependent problems still dominate the situation of the world—the French invasion of Germany, the Turkish national revival, and the settlement of international debt. Each week, almost each day, it is being demonstrated how these problems hang one upon the other. The difficulty is to solve the first of them, but this first solution once found, a road must be opened to a successful settlement of the others.