[3] The integral nationalism of Maurras is nourished by the spirit of revenge against Germany to the point of establishing "a systematic anti-Germanist doctrine, capable of rallying an ideologically consenting military society".

[5] Faced with the accentuation of Franco-Germanic tensions, cuts in military budgets since 1890 and the unpreparedness of France, Maurras predicts 500,000 deaths during the next conflict:[4] “At the very least, in concrete terms, the weakness of the regime must represent to us 500,000 young French people lying cold and bloody, on their poorly defended land”.

Albert Thibaudet, literary critic of the interwar period, summarizes Kiel and Tanger as "an attempt to demonstrate that foreign policy is forbidden to a republican state and that the wisest thing for it will be not to do it at all.

In 1972, during a lecture given at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, Georges Pompidou quotes a passage from Kiel and Tanger[7][8] :The world will therefore have the chance to represent itself for a long time... as a compound of two systems: several empires, with a number of nationalities, small or medium, in between.

Mutual fear society, alternating bullying company, organized cannibalism !He adds "someone who has never been my mentor, far from it, Charles Maurras has, in Kiel and Tanger, from 1910, foreseen the current world".