FOREIGN OPINION

“Mr Poincaré organizes the isolation of France”
The Observer, returning to the events of the past week, welcomes the energy shown by the British government in resisting Mr. Poincaré's policy of destruction:
Our attitude, he declares, has earned us the postponement of a new military enterprise intended to complete the dissolution of Germany, and, for the respite which we have gained, we must show ourselves infinitely grateful to Mr. Baldwin and Lord Curzon
Regarding the speech given Friday by Mr. Poincaré, this newspaper adds:
When he speaks of the security and rights of France, he practically reveals the incompatibility of the security of France, as he understands it, with the tranquility and prosperity of the continent. It diminishes the value of the rights acquired by the heavy treaties it draws on the moral capital amassed by courageous France in the midst of the ravages of war; but now it is no longer France, but Germany that is devastated. If anyone is organizing the isolation of France, it is Mr. Poincaré himself.
At the same time, he organized anarchy in Germany. Under the pressure of French politics, the government of the German Republic collapsed. MM. Ebert and Stresemann fought to keep the German Republic alive, but Mr. Poincaré spared nothing to strangle it. Democracy in Germany must be a factor of the greatest importance for the future security of France. Mr. Poincaré protests his respect for German unity and German democracy. He seeks, by militarist means, to oppose to militarism the fragile obstacle of a French Rhineland, and, in doing so, he abandons all control over unoccupied Germany, which he leaves to the mercy of the danger that he fears and that he himself creates.