31 MARCH 1923, Page 1

Meanwhile, the Ruhr occupation is increasingly dis- turbing the trade

of the world. This country is the greatest sufferer, but now the Netherlands, and to a less degree Scandinavia, are feeling the effects of the dis- location of the greatest industrial machine in Europe. This raises the question, If France returns to eighteenth. century methods of diplomacy, may not other nations do so, too ? An "armed neutrality" could as well be pointed at Paris as at London.