THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN ENTENTE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9586, 4 September 1909, Page 7

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN ENTENTE.

In the Contemporary Keview, Dr Dillon presents us with his views upon this, as upon many other questions of international politics. The Russian understanding with Great Britain he describes as a stroke of policy for which M. lsvolsky is alone responsible. Before the agreement was arrived at the Tsar studied the subject in all its aspects, and is represented as having been "moved by considerations which have not yet lost their force, but which are in fact weightier to-day than they were two years ago." A cloud of misapprehension has been dispelled on both sides, and "the results of the agreement, which has since been tested in Tibet, in tne Middle East, and in the Balkan Peninsula, have been excellent." As regards the future relations of Russia with Germany, Dr Dillon remarks that, while it is true these two Powers have lived in peace lor over luu years, "it is equally tiue that a feeling of intense rivalry, bordering upon hatred, has long been growing between the Slav and the Teuton races, which will sooner or later find its full expression on the battlefield. The storm is sure to break. Germany and Russia are subject to the laws that govern political storms. They can either enact nor evade them. Mow, in the upshot of that desperate struggle Great Britain ia neither more nor less interested than Russian is concerned with a iuture mighty conflict between Germany ana.Great Britain. ,ln both case-, the motives for co-operation are much the yame." And they are strengthened by the fact that henceforth Germany and Austria-Hungary will present mutual front to Europe and lhe world, and they can conjointly set four millions of armed men in the field, tfegardirg the Angol-Russian I entente asjm international necessity, Dr Dillon believes that it will coni tinue to be observed in spirit as well as in letter; and since this article was written the effusive and em ; pbalic language of the Tsar in his farewell message to the King and the people of England add considerable weight to the doctor's contention.