The Wreck of EuropeBobbs-Merrill, 1922 - 304 páginas |
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... vanquished alike . It follows that all that has been done hitherto in the way of treaties is rendered worthless , as the most im- portant participant has withdrawn . This is a further motive for reflecting that it is impossible to ...
... vanquished alike . It follows that all that has been done hitherto in the way of treaties is rendered worthless , as the most im- portant participant has withdrawn . This is a further motive for reflecting that it is impossible to ...
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... vanquished can not be lasting , and that there is no other logical way out of the difficulty but that of small indemnities payable in a few years , debit- ing to the losers in tolerable proportion all debts contracted toward Great ...
... vanquished can not be lasting , and that there is no other logical way out of the difficulty but that of small indemnities payable in a few years , debit- ing to the losers in tolerable proportion all debts contracted toward Great ...
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... vanquished are to pay in order to reestablish the finances of the victors . Perhaps , as has been shrewdly said , the debts contracted during the war will neither be paid nor canceled . On the one hand America can not persuade herself ...
... vanquished are to pay in order to reestablish the finances of the victors . Perhaps , as has been shrewdly said , the debts contracted during the war will neither be paid nor canceled . On the one hand America can not persuade herself ...
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... vanquished . He has recognized the damage already done to European civiliza- tion which is headed toward a social and economic catas- trophe . And since he realized that every month's delay means a frightful increase in human misery and ...
... vanquished . He has recognized the damage already done to European civiliza- tion which is headed toward a social and economic catas- trophe . And since he realized that every month's delay means a frightful increase in human misery and ...
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... vanquished are nothing but instruments of oppression . What more could Germany herself have done had she won the war ? Perhaps her terms would have been more lenient . Certainly they would not have been more severe , for she would have ...
... vanquished are nothing but instruments of oppression . What more could Germany herself have done had she won the war ? Perhaps her terms would have been more lenient . Certainly they would not have been more severe , for she would have ...
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Página 36 - The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.
Página 35 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Página 79 - The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied or Associated Power against Germany by such aggression by land, by sea and from the air, and in general all damage as defined in Annex I hereto.
Página 79 - The Allied and Associated Governments recognize that the resources of Germany are not adequate, after taking into account permanent diminutions of such resources which will result from other provisions of the present Treaty, to make complete reparation for all such loss and damage.
Página 95 - The greatest danger that I see in the present situation is that Germany may throw in her lot with Bolshevism and place her resources, her brains, her vast organising power at the disposal of the revolutionary fanatics whose dream it is to conquer the world for Bolshevism by force of arms.
Página 94 - The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt amongst the workmen against pre-war conditions. The whole existing order in its political, social and economic aspects is questioned by the masses of the population, from one end of Europe to the other.
Página 92 - You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to that of a fifth-rate power; all the same, in the end, if she feels that she has been unjustly treated in the peace of 1919, she will find means of exacting retribution from her conquerors.
Página 78 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Página 93 - Germans under the control of a people which is of a different religion and which has never proved its capacity for stable self-government throughout its history must, in my judgment, lead sooner or later to a new war in the East of Europe.
Página 96 - Once that happens all Eastern Europe will be swept into the orbit of the Bolshevik revolution and within a year we may witness the spectacle of nearly three hundred million people organized into a vast red army under German instructors and German generals equipped with German cannon and German machine guns and prepared for a renewal of the attack on Western Europe.