Her one purpose in the new Europe will be to hold a sword, not her own, over the struggling form of a resurgent Germany in the interests of another people.

Let Germany lose 1,000,000 men in the fighting of to-day, she can recover them in two years of peace.

But to France the losses of this war, whether she win or lose, cannot be made good in a quarter of a century of child births.

Whatever comes to Russia, to England, France as a great free power is gone.

Her future function will be to act in a subordinate capacity alone; supported and encouraged by England she will be forced to keep up a great army in order that the most capable people of the continent, with a population no defeat can arrest, shall not fill the place in Europe and in the world they are called on surely to fill, and one that conflicts only with British aims and appetites.
German expansion was no threat to France.