The Delta independent., 1916-06-23
HOW LONG WILL THE EUROPEAN
WAR IAST-MAx NORDAU

AS to the time of the conclusion of
the conflict, dare not risk a predic-
ton. Lord Kitchener said at it's out
break, 1T will last three years"
About year later, on November Is,
1915, Mr.. Trevelyan gave it as his op-
inion in the house of commons that
one must reckon with six years dur
alton of the war.
Recently a pan-Germanist published
a pamphlet wherein he explained the
program of his party, anticipating abb
undant conquests in the east and in the
west, and concluding coolly that the
achievement of these ends would re-
quire a fifteen years war.
I myself observed lately to Span
ish statesman that the war will last
until men become reasonable. He
raised his arms in dismay and ex-
claimed: What horrible pessimist
you are!" l admit, to wait till men
will become reasonable seems an ap-
palling ditsant term.
boundaries extended to Calais and Yer
dun in the west; to Riga and the
Dwina in the east; Belgium, Luxem-
burg, the eastern departments of
France with their coal districts, iron
ore layers and big industrial towns.
Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic pro-
vinces incorporated in the empire; the
lost colonies. augmented by the
French and Belgian Congo, the French
part of Morocco and the whole Eng
lish portion of Africa restituted and
huge war indemnity imposed upon the
vanquished allies, while Austria is to
be regaded with a piece of Poland,
Serbia, Montenegro, a slice of Venetia
and Saloniki.
The most sanguine of the allies will
not put up with less than the rees-
tablishment of Belgium. aggrandized
by the districts of Millinery and Prus-
sian Poland. the devolution of Alsatia,
Lorraine and the whole left bank of
the Rhine to France, the restitution of
Schleswig- -Holstein to Denmark and of
Helgoland to England, the severing of
Posnania, western Prussia and Silesia
from Prussia, and their union with
Poland. which would be resuscitated
under a Russian grand duke.
The double monarchy of Austria
Hungary would simply be effaced from
the map.
Bohemia, Moravia. and the north of
Hungary will form Tcho-Slovak re-
public: Silesia and Galicia be annexed
to the old-new Poland; Rumnnia OBJ
tains the Bukowina, Transylvania and
southeastern Hungary; Serbia re.
ceives the Banate of Temesvar, the
Slovenian portion OF Styria, Carinthia,
Carneolia. Croatia, Slavonia. Bosnia,
the Herzegovina and a seaport on the
eastern coast of the Adriatic
Italy helps herself to Southern Ty-
rol, Istria and the chief part Of Dal.
malta
What remains of the German pro-
vinces may join the new German fed
Grafton as an autonomous principality
under ruler of the Hapsburg family.
and the Magyars shall be at liberty
either to remain by autonomy. each
under the protectorate, or adhere to a
Balkan federation.
Bulgaria disappears: her heirs are
Serbs, Rumania, and Greece. Turkey
is to be cut up and apportioned to
Russia, France and England. imply.
ing the foundation of Armenian. Tur-
kish and Arabian policies to be en-
dowed with a certain measure of auto
nomy each under the protectorate of
one of the three great powers.
Moreover. Central Europe has to be
saddled with a mortgage in favor of
the allies, the interest of which is
bound to swallow up for many years
the entire surplus of the national in
come.
These. of course are extreme solu-
tions. In shaded transitions we come
down to the moderate anticipation,
which is condensed in the well known
formula:
mo winner. no loser: peace res
torres the status quo ante; each party |
to bear its own expense and damages"