had to do there?
the answer is rigorously, Nothing.

Their own windy vanities, ambitions, sanctioned not by fact and the Almighty Powers, but by phantasm and the babble of Versailles; transcendent self-conceit, intrinsically insane; pretensions over their fellow-creatures which were without basis anywhere in Nature, except in the French brain alone: it was this that brought Belleisle and France into a German War.

And Belleisle and France having gone into an Anti-Pragmatic War, the unlucky George and his England were dragged into a Pragmatic one,--quitting their own business, on the Spanish Main, and hurrying to Germany,--in terror as at Doomsday, and zeal to save the Keystone of Nature these.

That is the notable point in regard to this War: That France is to be called the author of it, who, alone of all the parties, had no business there whatever.

And the wages due to France for such a piece of industry,--the reader will yet see what wages France and the other parties got, at the tail of the affair.