The Relations of Great Britain and France.

By Max O'Rell, in the Dady Mail)

Many people, mostly wkeacrea, predict that, when the Paris Exhibition is over, hostile feelings towards England will be revived in France, and that, these feelings being recipe cated in England, war will be inevitable, or. at all events, that the slightest pretext for war will be seizel by ihfl forelock.

That there is bad Wood between the two great nations It would be idle to deny, although it may be Bffi-med, without fea of contradiction, that, outside of h lunatic asylum, there Ih not an intelligent per-on In France or in Kng'and that would wish to see fuch a war wih the too awful to contfrap'a'e consequences it wou'd entail to the two nations. But (he bad feelings do ex'sS and the situation has to be laced.

And what I say is that these bad fee' inp are not at all d< ep rooted on either Bide, and that, as they have been created solely by the newspapers of the two countries, it is for the papers to attempt to undo the mischief they have done by ceasing to excite their readers to the hatred of their neighbours, and by preach ing, not only concord and a good under standing, but the odious and criminal stupidity of a possible war between two nations aaade to be useful to each other, between the two happiest, richest, mofct industiious and piospenQci nations In Earopp ; le'wjon the two pioneers of freed< m *nd civi isation.

THE BEGINNING OF FRENCH DISUKE

The hoetile feeliugs »i the French towards Fngland have existed, in a more or less in'e i»e degree, since the English set foot in Egypt, and they culminat d with theFrtshod* incident, which incident would have passed almost unnoticed if the press of France and England had left it in Hie hands of the diplomatists.

Bat the drawback, the danger of all democracies. Is the unrestrained liberty of the press, and the Fashoda incident gave the newspapers of F.ance and England a grand opportunity, of which thty eagerly availed themselves, to hurl sneers and Insults at each other Alas! worse than that, how can the French forget that incident, when a Minister of th«* Englith Crown, perhaps the Foreign Minister, nay, the Prime Minister of tomorrow, does not hesitate to refer to a possible English humiliation ac a 'French Fas hod»: 1

All this, howevor, is nothing compared to the manner in which the English press behaved towards France during the Dreyfus trial. Because justice ie not administered in France as 16 Is in EDgland that trial caused nearly the whole of the English press to drpg France in the mud for months and mon'hs

HIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS ! Nothing is more resented by nations thin strangers mixing in their home affairs. .Nations, like private individuals wish to do their own family washing at home. The opportunity to * erase France from the list of civilised nations' was so tempting that many correspondents of London papers dared not speak their own minds- One cf the im-st famous of them now dead, had to confess that, from the beginning of the Henries tiial, he felt that If Dreyfns's guilb could not be proved he would certainly be unable to convince his judges of his innocence. Under the circumstances, an English tribunal would hava acquitted him, though. perhapß, without adding 'honourably,' The Scofch would have s\id : 'Wotproven,'—that is to cay. * Not; goil y but don't do it ag*in ' Now, French vercints, rightly or 'I think) wrongly, are given in the following manner: We cannot prove that the accused is guilty ; but, in our soul and conscience, we believe him guilty, and therefore we cannot acquit him, 1

It should bf> added that t-uspicion h the national defect of the French, as jaalausy is their national vice. So strong and deep rooted is tlrs characteristic, that a Frenchman, acquitted ly a coart o! justice, is looked askance at, and shunned by hie if not, of course, by his intimate friends. 'There is never smoke without fire,' they say

Since the Dreyfus affair, the French papers have had their revenge

They seiz9d a grand opportunity when the Engiish went to war. 4to annihilate a brave little nation of peasants in order bo rob them of their freedom and indepen dence.' Fur that matter, the rest of the world followed Bnifc

E?en in Ame rica (where I was at the beginning of the year) with the exception of tho Fifth avenue aristocracy, I'found practical'y everybody pro Boer, and shouting at the top of their voices that all the Americans should be In favour of thQ Boers, who, after all, wera- only fSghtiDg for what, 100 years ago., their forefathers successfully fought—the shaking toff of the oppresuor's yoke

AN ANSWER TO THE PRO BOER,

Now, the Americans like fcha French, were utterly wrong, because aa I aaid to them on the platform, in the rdouth AM can war, it is the English, r^ no t, the Bjers, who are Bghiing f OP what the Americans of 1776 foughr successfully, the liberty of tire citisen an d good govern ment, a statement wh'.oh brought down applause in America 9 nd nearly caused me fco be mobbed In France. 1 was right; the French fail to understand that the despotic govern mem t was the corrapted one of Mr Kruger, and that, by winning the campaign, the English have won South Africa for the caiase of liberty, and that, by opening the Transvaal to all nations alike, they will have conferred a great benefib on the whole world.

Bab, asG orge, Eliot aaid, it ieso much easier to make up yoar mind that yonr neighbour is good for nothing than to enter Into all iheeircnmstancestbab would oblige you to modify yoar opinion. la this article, I have only endeavoured to explain tho origin of the hostile feeling now unfortunately existing between the French and the English, In a shorb series of articles I intend attempting to show why Franca and England ehould try to understand each other better. The progress of civilisation depends on that good understanding ; and I think it ia high time that tho papers of the two countries should strive every nerve to obtain thai- greab and worthy object. Books are read by the few. The newspapers are read ly everybody. The English and the French are quite ready to respect each other.

Qae measieurs lee journaliafces oamtaeri cent.

ME ASHBURTON §tJA£OIA2? i S'Kluat, DEdEMBEB 14, 190 C

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