But it must be confessed that Russia's ally has some little cause for complaint. Up to the present all the advantage of the Franco-Russian Alliance has been on the side of Russia, She hus obtained at least the moral support of France in her Asiatic policy, and that moral support has been of no little value. And now France learns that towards the one object which she had in view when entering into the alliance she cannot expect the help of Russia, Since 1879 France has spent upwards of a thousand million pounds sterling in building up her great military force and ker comparatively powerful n and no one can doubt that her main object has always been the ultimate recovery of Alsace and Lorraine and the humiliation of her conqueror. France is a rich nation. She can bear the burden of her armaments more easily than Germiny and fur more easily than Russia. And now she is asked to join hands with Germany in reducing Ther armaments! And she has it forcibly home upon her too, that Russia has not the smallest idea of assisting her in her designs against Germany
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