The Fruits of Our Russian Alliance (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fruits of Our Russian Alliance WE ordinary mortals, remarked Lord Rosebery the other day, are not ad mitted behind the scenes but one thing we do know about our foreign policy: for good or for evil we are em braced in the midst Of the Continental system. Those liabilities Of which he spoke may never, in fact, involve us in the Armageddon which he foresees. The sanity Of nations, when once a peril is perceived, refuses to follow the logic Of their fatal impetus. But even if we knew that no European sea would ever again be stained with blood and no frontier violated by an invading army, the consequences Of our alliance with the Russian autocracy would remain. We made an understanding with a staggering chaos. Our friendship res tored its credit, raised its prestige, andgave it the confidence and the security which have enabled it to become once more an aggressive and expanding Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.