Why should they?
The matter of Alsace and Lorraine is finished.

If these provinces ever come back to France, it will be by political means and not by any mad-headed attempt to wrest them away." "Incidentally," Norgate asked, "what about the enormous armaments of Germany?
What about her navy?
What about the military spirit which practically rules the country ?" "I have spent three months in Germany during the last year," Hebblethwaite replied.

"It is my firm belief that those armaments and that fleet are necessary to Germany to preserve her place of dignity among the nations.

She has Russia on one side and France on the other, allies, watching her all the time, and of late years England has been chipping at her whenever she got a chance, and flirting with France.

What can a nation do but make herself strong enough to defend herself against unprovoked attack?
Germany, of course, is full of the military spirit, but it is my opinion, Norgate, that it is a great deal fuller of the great commercial spirit.