Its existence has never for a single moment weakened Germany's hatred of England, and the stronger she grows, the more she flaunts its conditions.

France guards her frontiers, night and day, with an army ten times larger than she is allowed.

Russia has become the country of mysteries, with something up her sleeve, beyond a doubt, and there are cities in modern China into which no European dare penetrate.
Japan quite frankly maintains an immense army, the United States is silently following suit--and God help us all if a war does come!" "You are right," Karschoff assented gloomily.

"The last glamour of romance has gone from fighting.

There were remnants of it in the last war, especially in Palestine and Egypt and when we first overran Austria.