Neither France nor Russia nor both combined, can give to Europe what Britain now designs to take from it by their help.
Whatever may be the result of this war on the field of battle, to France indeed it can bring only one end.

For her there is no future save that of a military empire.

Her life blood is dried up.

This war will sweep away all power of recuperation.

She will remain impotent to increase her race, sterile of new forces for good, her young men's blood gone to win the barren fields of Alsace.