We know what that means.

During fifteen years we are going to work on them, to attack them from every point, till we obtain from them a declaration of love.

It is evidently a less brutal proceeding than the _coup de force_ which detached from us our Alsatians and Lorrainers.

But if less brutal, it is more hypocritical.

We know quite well between ourselves that it is an attempt to annex these 600,000 Germans.