WHAT FRANCE THINKS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 266, 13 April 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

WHAT FRANCE THINKS.

Writing in V e "Edinburgh Review" for January on "France and the British Effort," Mr Edmund Gosse, C.8., remarks that the brotherhood in arms awakened during the battles of the Marne and the Yser ras not an ephemeral sentiment aroused by community of danger. It ras the effect of the moral interpenctration of the two peoples, and it is summed up in the words used by l r . Canibun so lately as November Rth, 1916:—"The heart of every French soldier is now filled with gratitude to England. I hope that this sentiment will develop more and more, and wisil continue after this terrible war." Only the month before, M. Bertin, tiie most eminent naval engineer of France, delivered an address in which he devoted to the spirit an 1 action of the British fleet such .-. panegyric as probably no foreigner in )vs position had ever given before. But it is not enough, s n ys Mr Gosse, thn.t Franco should learn to know us; w*> need to know France, its character, its turns of thought, its tenderness and loyalty, its moral magnificence. Very interesting are he ohscrvat'ons on English character by M. Cliovrillon. the niillior of Ci T/Ang!etorie et ..\ Guerre," particulcrly his .shrewd enelusion flat in England "le pe-sitnisine est le patnatUme." Mr fios>;o ncld. Hint French criti-; sue unanimous - n dating from May, 1915, the genuine and final effort, ~f Rritisli indignation From the crime of the Lusitania onward France has fought at our with unruffled confidence.