Welsh Journals

THE WELSH OUTLOOK "Where there is no vision the people perish." NOTES OF THE MONTH 227 ECCLESIA CREATRIX 231 THE TEACHING OF WORLD HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF WALES 233 NATIONAL EDUCATION: CON- CORD OR DISCORD? 236 SEPTEMBER, 1923. NOTES OF THE MONTH MPOINCARE'S reply to the British Note is very much what every JLVJL. body in England and in Europe expected it to be. As Mr. Brailsford says, "No one begins the reading of any of his Notes with curiosity, for his constancy is the most amazing thing in world politics." The cynical frankness of his effort ought. however, to do a great deal towards clearing the air, and to enable the British Government, which frankly con- fessed a month ago that it could not say what its next step would be after the publication of the diplomatic papers, to formulate a clear and well-defined policy and to pursue it steadfastly. M. Poincare has made it clear that he intends to stay in the Ruhr until he has received everything he demands in the way of reparations. Of course, he pleads that the dismemberment of Germany is the last thing he desires, but the man who can say that "it was in truth an amicable arrangement, a peaceful collaboration, that we offered to Germany in all sincerity when we entered the Ruhr," can probably con- vince himself of anything. As was to be expected, he disdainfully rejects anything and everything in the nature of an inter- national commission of experts for the purpose of fixing Germany's obligations a little more in accordance with her ability to pay. The ugly instrument of the Reparations Commission, with CONTENTS: FAGI PAGE A LIFE OF ST. DAVID 239 LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE SCHOOLS OF WALES 240 THE LEAGUE OF YOUNG BRETONS 242 THE DAY OF A FAUN 244 PAG. CHRISTIANITY AND THE PRESS 246 POETRY 248 BORROWS "WILD WALES" 249 WALES AT WORK-A SOCIAL DIARY 250 CORRESPONDENCE 252 REVIEWS Annual Subscription. 7/6. Half Year, 3/9 (post free) its permanent Franco-Belgian majority, suits his aims much better, for, as he declares, "Germany must not be allowed too rapid and too easy a restoration, which would result in her obtaining that commercial and industrial hegemony which she sought in vain on the field of battle." He has also made it clear that if Germany's liability to the victors is to be in any way reduced it shall be solely at British expense. The French debt to Britain, amounting to something like six hundred million pounds, he also proposes shall be paid in what are known as German C Bonds, which every one in his senses knows ought to be cancelled as the first step in the economic stabilisation of Europe, while France's "sacred right" to its thirteen hundred millions is to be safe- guarded as far as is humanly possible. We know at last where we are, and we believe the Government's course of action is in con- sequence much clearer. As long as M. Poin- care is in control of French policy, joint action is impossible. No man in Europe has made more mischief than he has-in the East as well as in the West. The separate action hinted at in the Curzon Note has be- come imperative and urgent. The impartial commission of experts should meet without delay; the question of the legality of the Ruhr occupation should be referred to a competent independent legal tribunal; we should make it clear to the world that our