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70 carry. However, it will be one that
she can bear, and rid of the burden
of imperialism, if her people estab-
lish an orderly government and work
with the century-old habit of German
industry and thrift, they viii not be
any worse off than the rest of Eu-
rope.
Almost the entire world, in conse-
quence of the war, is racked with trou-
bic and burdened with debt. A treaty
tnat renders Germany hopelessly
bankrupt will add to the load that
other nations must carry. We can't
shut them up in an iron ring to starve
ard murder each other, for il we do
we viii transfer the obloquy they now
bear TO ourselves, in even greater
measure.
1t is therefore almost certain that
the peace conference viii give the
Germans terms that will enable them
to establish a credit, feed themselves
and renew their business. They will
have to pay as much as they can pay
for the damage they have inflicted on
Belgium, France and Britain, and pos
sibly on some neutral nations. The
United States has already confscated
more than enough German property
to pay for the damage the Germans
did to American property. The Unit
ed States is not likely to ask for a
war indemnity, and it is TO be doubted
that the Allied nations will. 1t would
be utterly impossible for the Germans
to pay They could not even pay in
terest on the war debts of the Allies.
As for territorial changes. the
world has probably found out that
taking provinces by one nation from
another doesn't pay. France will un-
doubtedly keep Alsace-Lorraine, and
probably occupy the Saar basin.
Alsace-Lorraine will not be an an
nexation but restoration. The Saar
coal mines will be kept as an indem-
nifty for the mines of Northern
France, which the Germans wantonly
ruined They may be returned to the
Germans in the future. A small part
of Germany contiguous to Liege will
probably go to Belgium for strategic
al reasons. Denmark claims part of
Schleswig, which is peopled by Danes,
and which was annexed by Prussia in
1866, and will probably obtain it. The
port of Danzig and wide strip of
territory thru East Prussia, possibly
all East Prussia, Posen and part of
Silesia, are likely to go to Poland,
which the Allies desire to rebuild into
powerful nation.
Austria, Germany's partner in
crime, has gone TO pieces. and all left
to do is to sort the pieces out. Italy
will take the territory in which Ital-
ians predominant, which will give her
the line of the Alps, Trieste. Fiume,
and possibly a long line of the east
Adriatic coast. Bohemia and More
via are already the independent ma
tion of Czecho- -Slovakia. Poland and
the Ukraine are fighting over Galicia,
but the Allies will insist that it go to
Poland, part of which it was before
| the partition. Croatia and Slavonis
have cast their lot with Serbia in
forming the new nation of Jugo-
Slayia. Hungary has set up for her.
self, and will form a small but COM
pact nation. Pennsylvania and Buko-
wilma have already been annexed by
Rumania
Bulgaria will be allowed to live.
She will have to give up territory she
took from Serbia and Greece, but may
be given Adrianople and part of
Thrace.
Turkey will be taken to pieces. 1t
is likely that all Asiatic as well as
European Turkey in which the Greeks
predominate will be given to Greece.
This viii include a large part of Asia
Minor. Constantinople will either be
internationalized or given to Greece
with an agreement that the Darda-
nelles and Bosporus shall always be
open to all nations. Armenia will be-
{ come an independent nation, with
either France or America as a guard
ian until the people are able to 60 it
alone. Britain will administer Meso-
potamia and France Syria. Palestine
| is likely to be opened to the world and
put under the administration of an in
Iternational council. Arabia is already
independent. About all left to the
Turks will be Anatolia, a province of
Asia Minor of about a hundred thou
sand square miles of territory and
four million inhabitants The Bag
| dad railway passes thru it, but that
will be internationalized, and it is
more than likely that it viii be put
under American business manage
ment.
Germany's colonies. according to
President Wilson's plan, will be in
ternationalized, but it is likely that
the British, Australians. South Afri-
cans, French and Japanese viii con-
troll those in their spheres as COM
pletely as tho they were annexed.
Japan already holds the territory
Germany took from China, and which
Japan in turn took from Germany.
We do not believe that Germany
will plan for a war of revenge. We