Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Francke says: "My sympathy is entirely with the Boers as men fighting for home and liberty. I hope for a restoration of Dutch supremacy in South Africa, because the Dutch have identified themselves with the soil, while the English go there merely for commercial purposes. I should, of course, regret the crumbling to pieces of the British empire, but I do not see why this would be of necessity the consequence of an English defeat in South Africa. For, together with the United States and Germany, England will be able to hold her own against Russia and France, even though...