Anglo-French relations last week received a slight jogjust big enough to remind everybody that jogable relations exist.
British and French forces occupying the German Rhineland now amount to about 55,000 men. The Reich has objected, complained, remonstrated, reminded France and Britain that the Ambassadors' Conference of 1925 promised to reduce the armies to 45,000.
Britain professed her willingness to adhere to the Ambassadors' decision, and pressed for a cut of even 12,000 troops, ostensibly to propitiate the Germans but actually to cut expenses. France, still profoundly suspicious of her Teutonic neighbor, would reduce...
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