Germany has a proposition.

It has been enunciated up to a certain point.

She confers Alsace and Lorraine and possibly Egypt upon France, for her neutrality whilst she destroys the British Fleet.

Or failing her neutrality, she wants her to place a weak army on the frontier, which can fall back without much loss before a German advance.

Germany's objective then will be Calais and not Paris, and from there she will command the Straits and deal with the British Fleet at her leisure.