The French nation should make their representatives under- stand that
the matter must be looked at in the big. Here, undoubtedly, France has scored. The position of absolute paramountcy accorded in Morocco, a position which makes Morocco, except for the small Spanish sphere of influence, the counterpart to Tunis, is a magnificent achievement. The French North African Empire, stretching from the borders of Tripoli to the Spanish sphere on the Atlantic, gives France the most splendid Colonial Empire in Africa. She will now have her India at her very doors. To gain that her statesmen have shown true wisdom in making the concessions which they have made to Germany in the Congo. To wreck such a scheme because some trading company or syndicate of con- cessionaires in the French Congo thinks it has not received enough consideration would be madness.
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