Why should the allies fear your doctrines, when you cannot even control yourselves ?...

How could you sustain a siege, when you weep over the absence of an actress?
"But, finally, do you not understand that, by the rules of modern warfare, the capital of a country is always the objective point of its assailants?
Suppose our army defeated on the Rhine, France invaded, and defenceless Paris falling into the hands of the enemy.

It would be the death of the administrative power; without a head it could not live.

The capital taken, the nation must submit.

What do you say to that ?" The reply is very simple.