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Another event of importance is the message of the President

of the French Republic, read in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The message is a stirring one, and assures the country that the Government will do all in its power to assure to France, by securing universal respect for her national dignity, the benefit of peace abroad. But peace can be best kept by preparation for war : "A diminished France, a France exposed by her own fault to challenges or humiliations, would be France no longer. It, would be com- mitting a crime against civilization to allow our country to decline in the midst of so many nations which are busily developing their military forces."

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