WesWorld

We see in the destruction of yet another French fleet unit the logical consequence of the foreign policy of Republican France. An insolent upstart island potentate sends a cruiser to visit Saigon. Our present government gratefully accepts the gesture, and when this ill-built and worse-maintained contraption explodes, doing in death what she could never have hoped to accomplish in battle, our leaders refuse to see the intent behind the whole affair. The grasping nature of the policy of that rogue despotism is abundantly clear. They desire our colonial holdings in Indochina, and whatever else they can grab. And our present leaders have encouraged them, what with this "Department of Union Affairs". We may trust that when the surviving Prince of the House of Capet takes up once again his rightful place, we will once again return to the policy upon which the glory of France was once founded. Failing that, that the Parliamentary elections scheduled in three months may offer some, admittedly inadequate, prospect of a proper reply for this outrage.