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We feel confident that the British Government can and will

show no weakness. As we have said elsewhere, Britain can have no objection if the French Government like to save the face of Germany by making some minor rectification of frontier in the Congo. But the notion that because Germany has done an aggressive act for which there is no shadow of a local justification, e.g., danger to German citizens, compensa- tion is due to her, cannot be tolerated for a moment.