Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-26
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an obSession in regard to coalitions
and events of subsequent time have
shown it was no vision of terror The
danger of hostile coalitions which me-
naced the allied central powers often
made its appearance. By King Ed
wards isolation policy the dream OF
coalitions became a reality. The Ger
man empire, progressing and growing
in strength, stood In the way of Brit
ish Imperialism. In France, lust of re-
venge, and Russia, aspirations of ex-
panson, this British Imperialism
found only too ready aid, Thus fu-
ture plans, dangerous for us, were
formed.
Always In Danger.
"The geographical situation Ct Ger
many in itself has always bror Sht
near to us the danger of war on two
fronts and now 1t became increasing
ly visible between Russia and
France an alliance was concluded
whose participants were twice as
numerous as the population of the
German empire and Austria Hungary.
Republican France lent the rus
| railways in the kingdom of Poland, in
order to facilitate an advance against
us. The French republic drew on its
last man for their years OF service.
Thus France, with Russia, built up
armaments extending to the limit of
the capabilities of both, thereby pur-
suing aims which our enemies now
term imDerialistic e-
IIad to Prepare.
at would have been neglect OF
| duty had Germany remained n calm
| spectator of this game and We not
| also endeavored to create an arma-
ment which would protect us against
| future enemies. / may perhaps, re-
call that l, as a member of the reich-l
stag, very frequently spoke on these
matters and on the occasion of new
expenditure on armament, pointed
out that the German people, in con-
! senting to these, solely desired to pur-
sue a policy of peace and such arma-
ments were only imposed upon us to
ward off the danger threatening from
a possible enemy. 1t doesn't appear
that any regard was paid to these
| words abroad. ....
And Alsace-Lorraine, Of which
| Lloyd George speaks again? He
| speaks of the wrong Germany did In
1871 to France. Alsace- e-Lorraine---you
need not be told but abroad they ap-
pear still to be ignorant of things
Alsace-Lorraine composes as is known
for the most part, purely German reg
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| lence and illegality were severed from
the German empire and until lTT9
! the French revolution swallowed up
the last remnant. Alsace and L1or-
raine then became French provinces.
| Took Back Provinces.
when in the war of 1870 we de-
manded back the districts which had
| been criminally wrested from us, that
was not conquest of foreign terri
tory but rightly and properly speak
| ing what today is called disannexation
and this disannexation was then ex-
! pressly recognized by the French ma
tional assembly, the constitutional
! representative of the French people
at that time, March, 1871, by a large
majority of votes" "a
And in England. too, gentlemen,
language quite other than is heard
today has been heard, l can appeal
to a classic witness. 1t is none other
} than the famous British historian and
author Thomas Carlyle, who in a let
! ter to the Times, in December, 1886,
wrote:
} No people has had such a bad
neighbor as Germany has possessed
} during the last 400 years in France.
Germany would have@been mad had
she not thought of erecting such a
, frontier wall between herself and
such a neighbor when opportunity Of
fered.'
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