If France had been governed as she
should have been, had we possessed a statesman at the Quai d'Orsay, our
diplomatic defeats at Canea, Athens and Constantinople, though possibly
inevitable, might have found a Court of Appeal; and France would
finally have been in a position of exceptional advantage in securing a
judgment favourable to our alliance.
Germany's brutal seizure in China of a naval station that the Chinese
Government had leased to Russia for the purposes of a winter harbour
for her fleet, foreshadows the sort of thing that William II is capable
of doing, under cover of an _entente_, so soon as Japan comes to
evacuate Wei-hai-wei, upon China's payment of the war indemnity.
Germany's scruples in dealing with "sick men," remind one of the
charlatans who either kill or cure, according to their estimate of
their prospects of being able to grab the inheritance.
[1] _La Nouvelle Revue_, January 15, 1896, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[2] _La Nouvelle Revue_, March 1, 1896, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[3] _La Nouvelle Revue_, June 1, 1896, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[4] _Ibid._, September 1, 1896.
[5] _La Nouvelle Revue_, March 1, 1897, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[6] La Nouvelle Revue, May 1, 1897, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[7] _La Nouvelle Revue_, June 1, 1897, "Letters on Foreign Policy."
[8] William II had just sent 8000 marks to the fund for the victims of
the fire at the Charity Bazaar.
[9] Since Parisian journalists have dared to sing their cynical praises
in honour of the German Emperor, no considerations need restrain our
pen in defending the Tzars from the charges that have been brought
against them.
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