Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1905

A NEW alignment of the powers of Europe is in progress, following the political upheaval caused by the Russo-Japanese War. A Paris dispatch states:—

The various proposed re-alignments of European powers are divided into three main movements: first, British inclination toward an accord with Russia; second, a German movement for an alliance offsetting the Anglo-Japanese alliance; and third, Russo-German overtures to induce France to join the latter group.

A significant feature of the prospective rapprochement between Great Britain and Russia, as reported, is that the former is willing to withdraw much of her opposition to Russia's progress along the Bosporus and toward Constantinople. Heretofore England has been the chief obstacle in the way of Russia's advance toward this coveted goal.