The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-06
Former Colonial Secretary Discusses
the German Point of View from
d~ Several Different Angles

cihCe' tIfH HeT dllN must USnl, Ter
many must fight too.
| This brings us around our circle as
far as France. Surely no European en-.
| dowed with the slightest instinct for
history can contemplate the position Of
/ France on the Continent to-day without
an Impulse Vt sympathy. What a fall
she has had since those splendid days
under Richelieu and Louis XIV! Il
| seems but yesterday when she dictate,i
| policies TO every chancelery. M
merely earthly splendor seems AZ all
| comparable with hers from the age of
! MaSarin to that of tho French ReNuiu-
ton.
Then comes the Napolconic glory and
We have Taleyrand triumphant at the
congress OF Vienna. The third Napo-
leon continues the magnificent process
sion. Paris is always the queen city
OF the world. reigning I'm undiSputed
sway over men and manners over arts
and sciences. the home Of beauty and
delight. How shocking the collapse
when united Germany, frugal domes-
ticated. pious. comes between exquisite
France and the glorics she has lost, 1t
IL the old, old story Of Cinderella step
ping out Of the kitchen to eclipse her
proud sister.
do not overlook NiSIce and Lorraine.
II In customary to refer 10 France az
aching for revenge a. signing Tor those
lost provinces. But A,acc and l.or-
raine symbolic rather than comprls,
the reality which IS the decline Of
French force. the decay ~ French power
in it, WIDEST and its moral SENSE.
4, a. 9. 80.
pomp. and delights Of this world the
pride OF life She would not. Ike Ger
many. rear large families make a cult
OF the home. dwell simply in content
The population Of 3S.0o000O Germans
that went to war with France forty-four
years ago has grown 20 nearly 20 900 600
since but the $4,000 600 Of the French
in 1870 are represented by some 40 zoe
900 only ut this hour
France looked about for an ally. Rus
sian hostility to Germany was ju-t the
thing Thot hostility had lived upon
the menTy OF Bismarck and his vic
tory al ths congress of Berlin. Eussia
was rendered irnpotont In the face az
the Turk Tina, is how j, impressed
the Muscovitc mind
France could sympath.ze out she
could Offer something more substantial
than her sympathy she had her
wealth. II Is perhaps true that no other
area Of equal extent on the "lohc is ~
rich IN natural resources a. France. and
II France loves pleasure she love, ac-
foundations also She was only too
eager to finance Russian railways. Rus
san loans, Russian ornaments. Rus
san industrial undertakings ami Rus
sian engineering enterprises II wus
generation in which the might ot Rus
>la inspired awe and to which Japan
was remote. In = space 81 time that
seems incredibly brief Russia. TN, a.
lied ana friendly nation had absorbed
the cash equivalent Of M least two
billion dollars in French money.
Thus is explained : mystery watch .0r
some attle time has po picked students ~
what "a called world polite How can
a nation processing liberty. equality.
fraternity. ally itself SCI closely with th.
autoerarN II tho Cossauk and tn" knoui %
''ne motv" Is the recovery Of that lost
glory. of that supreme position ,u En-
rope. TN" Other consideration has o.
do with the vast suns transmitted from
fsrls banking houses 10 prtrograd. Nj
COW and Odessa.
NA,r Russia lrIus ru' WAY 200 Arm.
sed""n. Franc" must follow HIS. alton.
holding back. would rutju IN, cancel
ton ~ the enormous Indebtedness,
nat reputation \ strok. II tho aut.-
cratic pen in Pctr, graz can bring tne
French ." bankruptcy. and WI the,
know on which aldo their bread is hu.-
tered
Lot ~ come 20 England