Jog

Anglo-French relations last week received a slight jog--just 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 her troops only by 5,000 men.

Paris and London prepared to continue correspondence, which has already lasted for more than a month, in an effort to remove the jog.

The Ambassadors' Conference is a meeting, held casually in the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, and presided over by the French Foreign Minister, of the envoys of the principal Allied powers (Britain, Japan, Italy, France). The diplomats act in concert as the executors of the Versailles peace treaty. If one of the other peace treaties is in question, the associated ally concerned also sits in the Conference.