It is to discuss the situation arising from your neglect to make the provisions called for in that agreement that I am here to-day." Mr.Mervin Brown glanced at some figures which his secretary had laid before him.
"You complain, I presume, of the reduction of our standing army ?" he observed.
"We complain of that," Monsieur Pouilly replied, "and we complain also of the gradually decreasing interest shown by your Government in matters of aeronautics, artillery, and naval construction.

We learnt our lesson in 1914.

If trouble should come again, our country would once more be the sufferer.

You would no doubt do everything that was expected of you, in time.

Before you were ready, however, France would be ruined.