The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
ENGLAND WINS NEW FRIEND.
FRENCH PRESIDENTS VISIT MAY
HAVE BIG RESULTS.
RUSSIA Not Pleased Over the Incident and
Censors Trim the REPORTS OF the do"
frEs I'm London Presence Of tite Amer
lean Fleet At the Same Time Impressive.
sp,cia, Gable Despatch TO THE SUN

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Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN.
LONDON, July 1.-THE visit to England
OF the President of the French Republic
coinciding as it did with that Of the Ameri'
can squadron, and the spirit displayed
both by the guests and hosts, made this
memorable week not only for Great Britain
but for Europe in the Importance under
lying the outside appearance of both events.
ID 10 evidently fully recognized throughout
the Continent that each OF the three great
nations whose representatives gathered
here this week IL unhampered az regards
its relations toward the other two by the
trammels of any formal alliance, and this
apparently strengthens the value OF their
friendship in making for peace and justice
IN international dealings throughout the
world.
The reception, both official and popular
accorded to President Loubet has pleased
and Hattered the French, No French
President, says one Paris newspaper
has had such a reception in France as NJ
Loubet had in England. mo man." says
another French journal, would have re-
ceived such welcome in England, with the
exception OF the President Of the United
States"
IL Is needless even for those who are
most DESTROYS Of putting everything III
the most favorable light to employ exag-
geration. The visit was complete sue
cess. Every possible effort was made,
and all their resources in the way OF ex-
tsrnal pomp and splendor were utilized
both by the royal court and the city OF Lon
don. Added to this was the enthusiastic
welcome from the populace, which far ex-
ceeded that accorded to King Edward
during his visit to Paris. But II King Ed
ward were to revisit the French capital
now it is safe to say that his welcome.
which in May had never been exceeded
in cordially, would be heartily enthus-
iastic.
Nothing has yet been made known or
leaked out In regard to the interviews
between the Marquis Of Lansdowne and
M. DelcassA the Foreign Ministers re-
spectively of Great Britain and France.
but II Ia universally believed that important
things were done when they met in London.
The Paris Ecl1ir says IF an alliance was
not signed there was established an accord,
the effects OF which will make themselves
felt, not only in Anglo-French relations,
but also in the policy Of all the great Euro
pean Powers while the Temps, the semi
official organ Of the French Foreign Office
referring to the negotiations which I'M
doubtedly have been begun, says
at is useless for us to preserve artificial
RI lot ttya 10 NJ -
ance which are obvious from the map.
France has her ambitions, and England
hers. We know hers and she knows ours.
We have, as England has, material for ex
change Every one knows what we can
Offer England, and what she can grant us
There are no colonial questions which
cannot be solved by an Anglo French
accord. and there is no Power which could
prevent solutions based on that accord.
The disputes of the last twenty years have
almost invariably been due to a lack Of
mutual explanations. 1t was not from
having negotiated TOO much but too little,
that the two Governments ended in not
understanding each other. The Egyptian
and Fashoda questions are proof of this
For the future the two peoples may rest
assured that their Governments with
friendly and loyal explanations will seek
in good faith the basis Of an agreement.
The French press In fact is obviously
delighted, and the newspapers Of Austria
appear to be entirely in sympathy. The
German journals, on the other hand, while
to minimize the whole affair
declare that Great Britain is either con-
scious Of her weakness and is seeking a
strong ally, or is plotting to undermine
the dual alliance, and thus get freer hand
in the Far East In Italy, where the free
dom Of the Mediterranean is always the first
the friendliness Of Great
Britain and France Ia regarded with warm
favor.
In Russia this latest rapprochement
naturally finds no favor The accounts
of the reception given the President Of
France, the ally Of Russia, by one of her
chief rivals In the Far East, and the ally
of Japan, her other rival, would make IN
pleasant reading for the Russian authorities,
whose censor accordingly reduced them
considerably before they appeared in the
papers. Equally unpleasant, and perhaps
more So was the reminder Of n third
GREAT Power with interests in the Far East
Afforded by the presence of an American
feet.
In the Times description Of the review
before the King and President Loubet at
Aldershot is the following passage. after
the description of the march past OF the
Guards, artillery, army service corps,
mounted infantry and hussars:
up to the present we have shown our
distinguished visitors nothing Of which
we need feel ashamed, but is this so as the
infantry of the line go by' One wondered
II Secretary of War Brodrick, who was
sitting in the grand stand, experienced the
same hopele ss feeling as ones self They
are his children, but they are not the real
fighting material of the Empire Their
officers stand out like giants as they march
In front Of the puny boys, The fact is too
obvious for one to hope that it is not OBJ
served It is a discomforting review.
Would that we could show our French guests
90 O00 men from the Indian establishment j"
1,OO2,94O CHI RCHGOERS.