Germany knows every inch of Russia, by land and by water, and has calculated her resources to a nicety.  German spies are legion in Russia as they are in France.  She may hope to make easy-going people like us believe that she is on the best of terms with our ally, but she will find it far more difficult to make Russia herself believe it.  One has only to study the Russian Press to be convinced of this, and particularly a long article in the Novae Vremya, which proves that, as a matter of policy and of material facts, it is absolutely impossible for Russia and France to admit Germany into their Alliance without risking the destruction of that Alliance, inasmuch as its fundamental objects are diametrically opposed to those of Germany.

[1] La Nouvelle Revue, January 15, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[2] La Nouvelle Revue, April 1, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[3] La Nouvelle Revue, May 1, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[4] La Nouvelle Revue, June 1, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[5] Ibid., July 1, 1899.

[6] La Nouvelle Revue, July 16, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[7] La Nouvelle Revue, August 1, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”

[8] La Nouvelle Revue, Aug. 15, 1899, “Letters on Foreign Policy.”