from ''Diplomaticus" in this month's Fortnightly puts the arguments for a definite friendly understanding between Great Britain and Russia with the writer's customary clearness. The economic development of Russia is the basis of a thoughtful survey of the relations between the two countries. Since India and Canada have come into competition with Russia as corn-export countries, the statesmen of Russia have turned the energies of her enormous population into industrial pursuits and are endeavouring to consolidate her empire on the broad basis of internal reconstruction much as by military conquest. What will be the consequence to Great Britain which can never compete in military strength on a conscription basis with Russia and cannot find close fighting allies in commercial rivals of equal vigour? In China, Persia, and Eastern Asia Minor "Diplomaticus" thinks Great Britain should come to an arrangement with Russia as to the respective spheres of influence and neutral markets of each Power.
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