Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870

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The Macmillan, 1919 - 190 頁
 

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第 18 頁 - 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.
第 166 頁 - And vast credit is taken by our friend the Judge in regard to his support of it, when he declares the last years of his life have been, and all the future years of his life shall be, devoted to this matter of Popular Sovereignty. What is it ? Why, it is the sovereignty of the people. What was Squatter Sovereignty? I suppose if it had any significance at all, it was the right of the people to govern themselves, to be sovereign in their own affairs while they were squatted down in a country not their...
第 32 頁 - ... that Morality and History (which for him are much the same thing) proclaim they are German without knowing it. We Germans, who know Germany and France, know better what is good for Alsace than the unhappy people themselves, who through their French associations have lived in ignorance of the new Germany. We will give them back their own identity against their will.
第 3 頁 - With this in mind, and to show in a definite manner the reality of these feelings, I beg you to convey privately and unofficially to President Poincare that I will support by every means, and by exerting all my personal influence with my allies, France's just claims regarding Alsace-Lorraine.
第 156 頁 - ... purpose, according to our conviction, a thorough improvement of our whole west front from Belfort to the coast is necessary • We must conquer as great a part as possible of the North-French Channel coast, in order to obtain greater strategical security against England and a better outlet to the ocean To avoid such conditions as exist in Alsace-Lorraine the enterprises and possessions that give economic power are to be transferred from hostile to German hands, the previous owners being taken...
第 175 頁 - ... admittedly done to Belgium; payment by that Government for all the damage that has resulted from this wrong; and the restoration of Belgium as an independent sovereign state, leaving to the decision of the Belgian people the determination of their own future policy in all respects. (b) ALSACE AND LORRAINE The Conference declares that the problem of Alsace and Lorraine is not one of territorial adjustment, but one of right, and thus an international problem, the solution of which is indispensable...
第 176 頁 - France, having secured this recognition, can properly agree to a fresh consultation of the population of Alsace and Lorraine as to its own desires. The Treaty of Peace will bear the signatures of every nation in the world. It will be guaranteed by the League of Nations. To this League of Nations France is prepared to remit, with the freedom and...

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