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When one has millions and millions of yellow and black subjects what a strange idea it is to proclaim the principle of popular self-determination.

— Jacques Bainville L'Angleterre et l'Empire Britannique (1938)

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You will understand and know the German Republic better when it elects Hindenburg president.

Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.

Monarchist or collectivist, Germany will not change its nature.

In countries where, as in France, there is still an agricultural population and a majority of propriétaires, one need not fear social subversion.

In order to avoid being unsettled by Bolshevism and its substitutes, one must be conscious of the superiority of Western civilization.

Couleurs du Temps (1928)

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