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We thoroughly agree that the time has come to experiment

with a League of Nations, and indeed the principle is now so inextricably mixed up with the Peace Treaty that it would probably be quite impossible to separate the two things. We trust therefore that France may also be able to give willing consent, but we are none the less anxious that the special and most natural fears of the French people who have so powerful a neighbour as Germany should be understood, and not be laughed. away as though they were a kind of wanton Chauvinism.

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