Note 134 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
How entirely alien to Delcassé’s mind was the idea of a Continental alliance with Germany was shown by the fact that in August, 1899, at his instigation the phrase “the maintenance of the equilibrium between the forces of Europe” was introduced into the Dual Alliance. See Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Documents diplomatiques. L’alliance franco-russe (Paris, 1918), pp. 94 f.; Dickinson, The International Anarchy, 1904-1914 (New York, 1926), p. 108; Georges Michon, L’alliance franco-russe, 1891-1917 (Paris, 1927), pp. 87 ff.