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evue_, February 16, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [3] _La Nouvelle Revue_, March 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [4] _La Nouvelle Revue_, March 16, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [5] _La Nouvelle Revue_, April 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [6] _La Nouvelle Revue_, June 16, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [7] _La Nouvelle Revue_, July 16, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [8] _La Nouvelle Revue_, August 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [9] _La Nouvelle Revue_, August 16, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [10] _La Nouvelle Revue_, September 15, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [11] _La Nouvelle Revue_, October 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [12] _La Nouvelle Revue_, November 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [13] _La Nouvelle Revue_, November 15, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [14] _La Nouvelle Revue_, December 1, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." [15] _La Nouvelle Revue_, December 15, 1898, "Letters on Foreign Policy." CHAPTER VII 1899 Our diplomatic situation in 1899--William II visits the _Iphigenie_--The Hague Conference--Germany the only obstacle to the fulfilment of the humanitarian plans of the Tzar. January 11, 1899. [1] Impelled by a simplicity of mind that suggests vacuity, a great many French patriots imagine that our country cannot be equally hated by two nations at once. Seeing England threatening France every day in every way and by all the means at her disposal, these hypnotised patriots with fixed and staring eyes, see only England and nothing else! No matter what misdeeds Germany may commit, they scarcely trouble to turn towards her their inattentive gaze. Some of them, even, whose lips are tightened with anger when they think of London, smile with a vague feeling of good-will at the thought of Berlin. And yet the other enemy, the German, emboldened by our absorption, is more ready to oppress the weak, reveals himself as bolder and greedier, more cynical and exclusive, more violent in denying to others their rights. German influence may spread all over the world, but refuses to allow any other influence whatsoever to penetrate Germany. Prussia introduced the law of force because she was strong; she is now inaugurating a new system of human rights to the exclusive advantage of Germany. One newspaper, the _Vossische Zeitung_, has dared to say: "This system is unworthy of a civilised state and must lea
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