Next will come Holland, and, after Holland, Denmark.

This very morning the Swedish Minister informed me that Germany had made overtures to Sweden to come in on Germany's side.

The whole plan is thus clear.

This one great military power means to annex Belgium, Holland, and the Scandinavian states and to subjugate France." Sir Edward energetically rose; he again stood near the mantelpiece, his figure straightened, his eyes were fairly flashing--it was a picture, Page once told me, that was afterward indelibly fixed in his mind.
"England would be forever contemptible," Sir Edward said, "if it should sit by and see this treaty violated.

Its position would be gone if Germany were thus permitted to dominate Europe.