64/103 Thus, their foreign policy--why, for some time past it has been enough to make a fellow sweat. If I--I who speak to you--only knew a journalist to inspire him with my ideas." He was growing animated, and as he had finished crunching his barley-sugar, he opened a drawer from which he took a number of jujubes, which he swallowed while gesticulating. Before anything else, I should give Poland her independence again, and I should establish a great Scandinavian state to keep the Giant of the North at bay. Then I should make a republic out of all the little German states. As for England, she's scarcely to be feared; if she budged ever so little I should send a hundred thousand men to India. |