part(about 200000 of inhabitants) speak French as their ↩
mother tongue. Practically the „revenge idea“ concerns not ↩
so much the lost provinces but the ambition of France to ↩
remain at least tha loading power of Continental Europe    . ↩
For she has the lost the claim to be a leading „world power“ in the ↩
world at Waterloo    , and at Faschoda¹ under the pressure of the ↩
British fleet.

5)          As to  E n g l a n d      commercial rivalry was↩
the chief reason why Edward VII     made it the chief purpose ↩
of British politics to meet the "German menace", which only ↩
existed in the English imagination. It was he who brought ↩
about a truce with Russia    , England's hereditary enemy, and ↩
tried to encircle Germany as the world knows. For that ↩
purpose England spent almost twice as mach anually for ↩
armaments as Germany, and yet she accused her all the time ↩
of militarism. But on the other hand there were British ↩
patriots enough who wanted a sincere understanding with ↩
Germany. They pointed to the fact that Germany had become ↩
since 1912   the largest buyer of British wares, even pur¬ ↩
chasing more from England than the Indian Empire    . These ↩
people went in for the German - Anglo agreement, mentioned ↩
above and hoped that with the adherence of the United States     ↩
the three Teutonic nations were going to order and pacify ↩
the world. Could there be any more promising conception ↩
of human future? But when the war of Russia and France with ↩
Germany had come to the outbreak, the leading statesmen ↩
of England found themselves bound by the lines of British ↩
policy since Edward VII. Besides I hear from very well ↩
informed sources, a chief leason for England of backing the