| Show ERPS PRESENT I 1 TH TA fact that thai i a number of russians Eus siang have had bad a sword specially made for general boulanger and formally pr presented e se e d to hla him to is in itself a small ysmall in matter bt and it if unconnected with something else would not be worth cabling across the atlantic or wiring across the co con u tl uncut nent but the 1 1 something else in this instance is esthe the important element in the case I 1 R was stated some days ago that the popi popularity larity of france in russian circles had risen several points in the social indicator and was still rising that the mere mention of the word france created unrestrained and unaffected enthusiasm andi and it remains for the reader to decide whether or not in the present p resent complication of european po politics lipics that shat means anything we think it does this boulanger is so far a kind of prodigy A tew lew years ago he h was an unknown entity in french affairs except in a very limited sphere being made I 1 minister of war in the french cabinet that fortunate fortu oate condition of things in which the calling makes the man and the man magnifies the callings his has resulted suddenly as his bis own fame came such a transform transformation atlon n the was preparations army organization and system of preparations pa rations is as has made germany call for more men for longer terms austria to be in a constant state of alarm and preparation italy spain and other second class powers to content themselves with having nothing whatever to co say on the subject and russia to be completely given up to admiration of her former enemy A great and peculiar man is boulanger and a great if not invincible al alley Y would russia be in the coming struggle putting this and that together his reception of a sword at the hands of the muscovites ahas a pretty broad signil significance leance |
