Your letter answers that point, and I am authorized to state that,
in the event of one of our two Governments having grave reasons to
fear either an attack from a third power, or some event threatening
the general peace, that Government would immediately examine with
the other the question whether both Governments should act together
in order to prevent aggression or preserve peace. If so, the two
Governments would deliberate as to the measures which they would be
prepared to take in common. If those measures involved action the
two Governments would take into immediate consideration the plans
of their General Staffs and would then decide as to the effect to
be given to those plans.
Yours, &c.,
PAUL CAMBON.
Government's Acts Beyond Reproach.
In the House of Commons the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs spoke
of France, amid the applause of the members, in lofty and impassioned
words, which have already elicited genuine response from all French
hearts.
In the name of the Government of the Republic I wish, from this rostrum,
to thank the British Government for the cordiality of its words, and the
French Parliament will join me in this.
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