New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-21
TERMS OF PEACE.
Race and Solidarity Should Control
Political RealignmentS.
To The Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial allied Terms" was
very interesting and read with great atten-
ton. as all your editorials are. But II
seems to me, in discussing terms for a per
manent peace las some Of the English edl-
torials have said they should be based
upon racial lines. The religious side has
been overlooked. We know, in the past that
countries composed Of different races but OF
the same religious faith have been more har-
monious than those of the same race but OF
different religions. There is more harmony
between Protestant Prussia and Protestant
Scandinavia than between Protestant Prus-
STA and Catholic Germany.
All right thinking people agree that Po-
land should be restored Russian Poland
Austrian Poland, Prussisn Poland. East
Prussia should be divided up between Rus
STA and Poland, Russia to have the port OF
Konigsberg and all East Prussia east of
that port; Poland to have the territory be-
tween Konigsberg and the Vstula, giving
Poland window on the Baltic; all Of the
Province of Posen and that part of Silesia
east of the Oder, and Galicis. This would
make Poland all Slavic in race, Catholic in
religion and Polish in language.
Bohemia and Moravia to form one country
and to have all of Silesia west of the Oder
and south of the city of Breslau. This would
make Bohemia one in race, one in religion
and one in language.
Rumania to have Bessarabia, Bukowina
and Pennsylvania.
Serbia to have Bosnia. Herzegovina, Sla-
vona. Croatia and the Dalmatsn coast south
Of the Narenta River, giving Serbia a win
dow on the Adriatic.
Albania to be divided between Montenegro
and Greece. Greece to have all of European
Turkey, including Constantinople, and the
Bulgarian coast bordering on the Egean
Sea, and a twenty-mile line of Asiatic Turkey
bordering on the Dardanelles, leaving the
Dardanelles free to ell nations and unfortl-
fed
Hungary 70 form an independent nation.
Russia to have Persia, to give her south
ern outlet
Finland to be autonomous.
Italy to have all the Adria;c coast OF
Austria Hungary west of the mountain range
of the Julian and Dinarc Alps; also the Tren-
tho and the Italian cantons of Switzerland.
France to have Alsace-Lorraine and the
French cantons of Switzerland.
Switzerland to be given the Austrian
Tyrol.
Belgium to be given Luxembourg and the
mouth of the Scheldt.
Denmark to be given Schleswig Holstein.
Hanover to be restored TO a kingdom.
The present German Empire TO be sepa-
rated into two declarations Prussia, SaXony
and Hanover forming one federation, all
Protestant in religion; the South German
states, Bavaria Wurtemberg, Baden, Ger
man Austria and Switzerland forming a sec
ond federation. all Catholic in religion.
These divisions substantially divide Eu-
rope into self-governing countries, one Ian
guage. one race and one religion, "a near
as it is possible TO do And If we look
at it from a moral point of view, Italy should
have Malta; Spain. Gibraltar; and France,
the Channel Islands. To compensate Hol-
land for giving UP the mouth of the Scheldt
to Belgium her eastern frontier should be
extended to the Ems
If Belgium and Holland had had an often
sive and defensive alliance before the out
break Of the war. Germany would never have
invaded Belgium to reach France. The pres
ent war has demonstrated that guaranteed
neutrality is not to be depended upon by
small nations
Germany's object in starting this war was
to obtain all of Russia west Of line drawn
from Riga, on the Baltic. TO Odessa. on the
Black Sea, including those two ports; to an
mex Belgium, to get the port of Antwerp; to
annex Switzerland and North Italy, TO get
the port Of Genoa. Austria was TO have all
of the Balkans, including Constantinople.
This war must be fought to a fnish. so
that there will be nothing left to in ire the