They realize that the attitude that the Allies adopted was due to their fear of French Imperialism. But the French are not an imperialistic nation. I am not now giving my own opinions but merely repeating what I have heard from the mouths of all manner of persons, persons in all walks of lite.
It is very generally admitted that the Napoleonic imperialism was a disaster to France. The Colonial Empire has been won almost by accident and the sense of it has never entered into the consciousness of the French as our own Empire has into that of the English, The feeling is universal, I think, that with a democracy like that of France imperialism is out of the question; in the fierceness of political animosities a government that showed any tendent cies in that direction would stand no chance of subsisting. it teeth. I think there re few men in France who do not share the common feeling that this ime they are going to see it through.
are going to fight now to the S bitter end and: they will never accept a peace that will expose them again, perhaps in a short time, to the afflict tion, loss and inconvenience of another mobilization. I'have known the French all my.life; I have never known them more calm, more resolute and more single-minded, mere than a name....
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