France is impregnable.

A direct invasion of your country is in all probability impossible.

Those two facts have seemed to you all-sufficient.

That is where you have been, if I may say so, sir, very short-sighted." "Germany has no power to transport troops in other directions," Mr.
Mervin Brown observed.
Prince Shan smiled.
"You have another enemy besides Germany," he pointed out, "a great democracy who has never forgiven your lack of sympathy at her birth, your attempts to repress by force a great upheaval, borne in agony and shame, yet containing the germs of worthy things which your statesmen in those days failed to discern.

Russia has never forgiven.