Let us now turn to the speech which M. Poincare
made in the French Chamber on Thursday, January 19th. It was genera,: in form and was devoid of the eloquent passion of M. Briand. M. Poineare said that a disgraceful propaganda was being carried on against France, who was accused of wild designs against her neighbours. Surely France had suffered enough to escape charges of Chauvinism. All that France asked was that Germany should be bound by the Treaty of Versailles and should pay her debts. M. Poincare described at length the manoeuvres, as he understood them, of which Germany was guilty for avoiding payment. The German Government might plead that they literally had not enough money, but the German nation as a whole had enough money, and it was the nation as a whole which was responsible.
