17 APRIL 1926, Page 15

• GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Rev. Herbert W. Quarrie says that our helping France in the War " meant the difference between survival and extinction to her." But why ignore the fact that it meant equally as much " the difference between survival and extinction " to ourselves ?

Gugl. Ferrero, in his Problems of Peace, p. 2a4, says : " Forty years had not taught Europe to realize that France was the keystone of European equilibrium." It now begins to seem as if we had forgotten that lesson or never learnt it.— I am, Sir, &c.,