To ask me my sentiment. What is there out of the way in
all that?
     But here is what is more perfidious: "A striking
detail, at the other end of the wire, there was, as if by
chance, at the side of the French Premier, one General
Spears, the chairman of the Franco-British Committee."
     Perfidious, in the first place, to me, who appeared
as having been wanting in the dignity of my office.  I 
pass that...
     But the attack on General Spears, who is one of the
oldest and most faithful friends of France in the House
of Commons and whom it is, at least, strange to treat as
a suspect, is as unjustified as it is improper.  He was
regularly accredited to me, Minister of War, by Mr. Churchill,
and he was calling on me that day, in company with his
ambassador.  His position was therefore, as always, per-
fectly correct.
     I take the liberty of thinking that these old wives'
tales' are unworthy of a great country.
     Nothing is more to be scorned and more contrary to
the national interest than these insinuations and these constant 
attacks upon the leaders of a people whose heroism
will assure our salvation.
     We know only too well who can rejoice at them.