...the Polish Commission that we should place 2,100,000 Germans under the control of a people which is of a different religion and which has never proved...What I have said about the Germans is equally true of the Magyars. There will never be peace in South Eastern Europe if every little state now coming...

...pointed to the fact that over 2,000,000 Germans would be placed under the control of a people "which is of a different religion and which has never proved its capacity for stable self-government." His argument was applicable only to Danzig and one or two small sections, but by inference it was applied...

...bombs in Europe's future. Of Germany's border with Poland, David Lloyd George himself predicted that it "must in my judgment lead sooner or later to a new war in the east of Europe." Wilson's pretense that all injustices would be rectified in time — "It will be the business of the...

...and which has never proved its capacity for stable self-government throughout its history must . . . lead sooner or later to a new war in the East of Europe."70 And so it did. It did not lead to the Holocaust, but it did figure centrally in the opening...

...the Poles' proposal "that we should place 2,100,000 Germans under the control of a people which is of a different religion and which has never proved...stable self-government throughout its history must . . . lead sooner or later to a new war in the East of Europe.""0 And so it did. It did not lead to...

...Frontier Commission that we should place 2.1 million Germans under the control of a people which is of a different religion and which has never proved...judgment, lead sooner or later to a new war in the east of Europe."36 He succeeded in getting the recommendations returned to committee for revision. Wilson then...