1 JUNE 1912, Page 14

THE PROPOSED ALLIANCE.

[TO TEE EDITOR OP TEE " SPRCTATOR.1

SIR,—May I venture to utter a most earnest protest against the idea of a definite alliance with France on the lines sug- gested by you P It could only bear one interpretation, and would seriously imperil those better relations between ourselves and Germany which seem at last to be coming within reach. It seems to me that we are too much inclined to concentrate our attention on the European situation. Could we but look further afield, we should probably realize that the greatest danger to the continued existence of the British Empire is extra- European, and the more dangerous because we are so sublimely