THE POLICY OF GERMANY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1292, 10 May 1878, Page 3

THE POLICY OF GERMANY.

The Berlin correspondent of the London “Telegraph” writes with reference to the foreign policy of Germany : —“ At the bottom of the German policy of the day, there is the ineradicable conviction that France is awa ting her opportunity, and would attack Germany at any moment could she secure a competent ally. With the Gallic sword suspended over their devoted heads, German statesmen are necessarily anxious to abstain from anything calculated to offend the Czar, the only Sovereign they would have to dread were France to secure him for herself. Not, however, to lose sight of present interests in the East while purchasing future safety in the West, they have repeatedly signified an intention to protect Austria from collapse, were such to result from the impending Slavification of European Turkey. The danger to Germany from Austria’s succumbing to the Slav movement inaugurated by her guileless neighbors is so very obvious that the earnestness of Prince Bismarck’s intentions on this head cannot be doubted. It is probably owing to this, the primary interest of Germany in the Oriental question, that the Prince has never allowed Russia to think that he will relinquish his right to ratify or reject, in common with the rest of the guaranteeing Powers, any remodellings which maybe agreed upon between Sultan and Czar.”