England's Isolation.
Mr Geschen some little time hack at Lewes spoke wisely and well about continental alliances: «e---'ferring to the phrase used in the Canadian parliament concerning the sblendid isolation of England, he Stated out that the isolation was not that of an old maid, who was unmarried because she W »o suitors, but rather that of a beautiful heiress, who has no wish to aacnnat her independence by marrying any of the numerous lover 3 who sueior Set hancL Mr Goschen objected to the system of international log tolling which Bismarck discribed as that Do ut des, or, as the vulgar vernacular has it " You scratch my back, and I Will scratch youra.'
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Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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114England's Isolation. Manawatu Herald, 30 May 1896, Page 3
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