The meeting between the Russian and German Emperors at Baltic
Poit ended exactly as we ventured to predict last week. Nothing happened, because nothing could happen, to • change a relation of the Powers which is the result of necessity. As though to insist on the triumphs of complete agreement—.
the gratifying nature of which might have escaped notice in the absence of any possibility of disagreement—a joint com- munique was issued on behalf of the two Sovereigns. TER declared that Germany and Russia were determined for the peace of the world " to maintain the mutual contact based upon reciprocal confidence." An excellently elusive form of words. A passage followed, however, which is indeed worthy of all remembrance. Although it said nothing new, it is a most notable fact that the German Emperor should have said it on behalf of his country. The words are these, and they are the greatest triumph which has yet been won by the Triple Entente : "There could be no questions of new agreements because there was no special occasion for them, or for altering in any way the grouping of the European Powers, the value of which for the maintenance of equilibrium and of peace has already been proved."
