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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 November 1907, Page 2

If a disposition to employ paid soldiers rather than face universal service, to rely on allies to do our lighting rather than do it ourselves, to placo national trade in front of national honour; if all these symptoms are characteristic of national degeneracy, then it is high time that Great Britain considered her position in the world, for in ono form or another those symptoms aro to bd found in the Britons of to-day.—"Pinang Gnzotte," • ■ • 'Rumours of better understandings between Franco and Germany have-no terrors for us, and in the same way Franco need not inU agine that improved relations with Germany, wnich all sensible men here would view with satisfaction, can in any way impair the entonto. Such improved relations, should they happily come about, will be subject to and dependant on the entente.— "Spectator."