bureaucrats desire an alliance with make all the Liberals hate such an alliance, and make a good many of them (but not all) desire an understanding with England in addition toa continuance of the present alliance with France. They do not expect that england can ever render them armed assistance.
Their object simply is to bring their Government into connexion with " free country whose strong sympathy with the liberal movement in Russia would tend in some slight degree perhaps to make official Russia chary of treating that movement with her usual violence, or would tend at any rate to keep Russia from falling entirely into the hands of the reactionary German|s Government, Some of the extreme Liberals, it is true, oppose any understanding with England on the ground that it would tend to strengthen the position of the Russian Governmest! which they would prefer to see without. a friend in the world, unable to. borrow money on any terms, shunned by foreign navies, diplomatically outlawed, but it is impossible to estimate the strength of the Liberal parties which hold these views because the whole question lacks actuality and Liberals discuss it as little as they discuss the probabilities of an invasion from Mars.
There is every probability that the meeting at Swinemiinde has largely been brought about by Russian officialdom which thinks that an exchange of views with the energetic and self-confident Germany Emperor would make the wavering Nicholas pursue a more repressive policy against Liberalism at home and would lay the seeds of a future Russo-German alliance. Tt. clear of course that no understanding: has been entered into, but it is remarkable that the German official reports of the function, make it out to be a shade more important than do the Russian reports. Another fact worthy of being noted, though not in itself of much importance is the way in which, whenever it speaks editotally of this meeting, the bureaucratic "Novoe Vremya" drags in the name of England in order to pay that country lavish compliments.
On August 7, the "Ni Vremya"
editorial out Swinemiinde and German fleet, Bri the statement would, between them, maintain the peace of the world.
higust 8. the published another very editorial on the British' Navy. tunealled-for enthusiasm on the 8 paper which has never been very much enumonred of England does seem to denote that the Swinemiinde meeting, taking place as it does on the very eve of the xi Angle of the bureaucrats wh hav the weeting, England's sup such consequences may be ought to be dissipated the most Invish praise, arranged that for her, rehand by
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