The sun., 1914-09-13
Dr.. Bernhard Dernburg.

population Oin 1870 OF 5l.o00.0o m
Austriu-IIuuEiry no less than .5uu"uI
are Slavs. The contention OF Pdn-SlJt ism.
that the SeIvi1ns and all SltNs must pc
dependent on Russia and that an Sltyt
would ho protected by Russia. did uctl
nothing less ,hIn the breaking up "t
Austria. That Is Hha; Austria most
bitterly rcsents IN her uliiWutum
Whether this war came now, as q con-
sequence Of the murder OF the Austrian
Crown Prince. or az some later 'lmr. is
without Importance Come 10 must. boz
any event IL not to-day then Tomorrow, as
long AS Mr.. Sa2ouoG theory WIS upheld,
and no International mediation mo- court
of arbitration Of whatever nature would
have prevented the clash as long "a tn
Russian theory was maintained and IN"
Russian prestige demanded such theory
But that such is the Pan -SlaN.Sm
theory and has been since AT least ISIS
every reader OF the Russian press can
testifs to. ! quote from the New York
Times of September 10. 1914:
REcASTING EIRoPEs MAE
Russian View a. To- the Final Division Of
Territories
PETROGRAD. Sept Sth The "Prctch'
argues THAI m, war mus, be terminated in
such way that u shall leave no vong"ful
associa lion on either side. The change In the
man Or Europe must u, hnii amt no nation
allty must he opposed ma the sat- faction NJ
It's legitimate AMBITIONS This ideal is. howe, ct.
Irrecoucllablv with the evidence OF an en-
pirc like Austria Hungary 1t is also irrec-
%n'ae,r with % l4G h'g'mony Of prnss,a
with the division OF Poland ana the Treaty
o.. BuChurrHt.
Tho unincation of Russia. Italy. Ger
many; Rumania and Servia must he com
! pIctcd. France must recover Whlt has been
i hundred Years nghi Tor the prlnci-
! pie OF nationality must finish with = decision
rrec from all compromise ana therefore
Those ideas seem to have many advo-
| Gates In this country.
The national existence Of Austria
can never be arbltratcd upon i,
/ is not too much tp say that even
| the car, had he wanted to, could
/ not have prevented this develop
! ment. The breaking W. however. of
/ Austi Hungary cannot be tolerated hy
| Germany. Austria Is the only aid that
| Germany has for the purpose Of defence
which can be relied upon. The breaking
mp OF the Dual Monarchy and the abso-
! Lutte isolation of Germany would have
| made her an easy prey to her neighbors
| whenever they chose to attack her.
| Sir Edward Grey has said of France
| that she had to take hand in the
| struggle as a consequence Of fixed al
! lance and as matter OF national honor
| That is quite 50. Whether this French
| policy is wise or not, need not bc dis.
| Cussed, but France has certainly flled
! very badly for binding herself for good
racial instinct and whose aims and as
| pirations she cannot in the least control
| by loanirg to Russia 10000. .0uO. 900
| of fralcs she has enabled her to 90 to
| war and she IL not only the creator Of
| Russa's war machine hut also the battle
field for Russian aspiration aui the
| hostage of Germany for Russii'S good
behavior In the future. The English the
DRY has always been for centuries back
| to keep all Europe in an equilibrium
| Of forces, to have her divided I'm two
camps with opponents matched as evenly
as possible, so that she should always
| have a free hand and on whichever scale
this hand Was pressed that the scale
would go down. That England was very
much averso to going TO war and that
the ondedVors Of Sir Edward Grey were
very serious a,d very active to avoid
the clash, just as incesSant as those oi
the German Emperor and his Chancellor
must be readily believed and uudcystool
l'ut when II had once been decided that
Russia could not he held back i'm spite
Of these cndoavors, and a. France had
been dragged In. Engla!d had to take
Il hand because OF this theory Of oqu-
lbrum.
In 1870 there were 3s,0oo.ooo Ger
mans fGhtmg AGAINST ip,0o0,0oO of
French. At the return of Alsarc-lor-
raine to Germany the ratio was reversed.
Germany had i0.000.000. France had 3N.-
600, 0OO But while Germany, making
great progress in its population and with
ont addition of territory, has now more
than 50. .OO0. O0N Of nhahi'luts, France has
remained absolutely stationary. with 20,-
OOO. 600 inhabitants; 1t Mas clear from the
| start that in a European struggle France
must he crushed by the sheer weight I'm
numbers and that the European cquillh-
Iium, whios -as the rtock theory of