M. Briand, in the French Senate last week, was urged
to define the attitude that he would adopt in the conference with Mr. Lloyd George and the other Allied delegates at Cannes. He said that no compromise was possible for France on the question of reparation. " France must not suffer the sacrifice of a single centime." It was not true that Germany and Russia were to be invited to an international. conference. "If Germany is called to collaborate in the revival of Russia, she will -certainly extract profit from it. But if this profit is applied to the pay- ment of reparations, would that, do you think, be an undesirable operation ? " M. Briand reaffirmed his determination " to make no sacrifice as to cruisers and submarines," as proposed at Washington. The agreement as to capital ships would have- to be ratified by the French Parliament.
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