We have not only recovered from the after effects of the war, but we have reached a state of prosperity which we never previously attained.

You, on the other hand, are still groaning with enormous taxes.

You carry a burden which is self-imposed and unnecessary.

You, of all the nations, refuse to recognise the fact that the government of the great countries of the world has passed into the hands of the democracy, and that democracies will not tolerate war." "There I join issue with you, sir," the Frenchman replied.

"These are the obvious and expressed views of other European countries, yet month by month come rumours of the training of great masses of troops, far in excess of the numbers permitted by the League of Nations.