The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-28
DECLARES HUNS MUST SEEK
 FRIENDSHIP OF US. AND ENCL AND

such industries as do not depend on foreign raw materials. One pre-con- dition of any association with Eng land would be that we should have to construe the principle of the free dom of the seas in a sense which did not expose the unity of the world wide British Empire to any risk; otF- CT wise such a policy would be simply our old maya, policy over again, it's effect would only be to make England our bitter enemy.
 8. In the sense just explained the Anglo-Saxon fellowship between England and the United States would have to be widened into a Teutonic bond of mutual assurance
 g. The Mittel-Europa idea in its old form was 8 mistake because it failed to allow for the rottenness of Austria-Hungary. But it was right In recognizing the necessity of econ omic concentration in the life of States. If all small nations attain complete sovereignty for their sever al little States the principle of self determination will make for the fall and not for the rise, of nations Smaller nations must for their own sake seek inclusion in some larger complex, preserving cultural auto nomy-we need to recognize degrees in the right of -deterrnina ton. The nationalities established round about the Danube will be led by their common economic interests to join together, to form some kind of Aus trIa-Hungary in a new forn-a fal- ILwship of free Danubian peoples These peoples would have great economic interest in maintaining friendly relations with Germany, and Germany would have an equal in terest in maintaining friendly reIa- tions with them.
 10. The temporary antagonism of the Central European Slavs to Ger r~aanism makes any Mittel- Europa an impossibility for the present. The crIy immediately feasible scheme is that of the German-Austrians enter ing the German Realm (Reich) as a federated State. This is necessary for us for the sake of the KuItur in which the whole German race is in terested. It presupposes the re-es- tablishment of political order in Ger many.
 Il. A German Austria federally united to us would constitute a bridge to the Cenr European SIavs, 1. e. to the future Danubiap Federation.
 
 future MittaI- Europa. Some kind Of Mittel-Europa is needed as a dyke against the dangerous pressure of in creasing SIav populations.
 The Nearer East CTurkey) how ever, cannot, for as far ahead as we can see, form any factor in the Nit teI-Europa idea.
 Colonies, Oversea Trade. 1. If Germany develops all its cultural forces, it has a right to claim a share in developing the backward parts of the earth proportionate to its cultural power, If the League ot Nations is a reality, it will have to assert the right of all civilized na- tons to have colonies. Especially
 must Germany not be passed over in | the new partition of Africa. 2. As a manufacturing State Ger l Tr-any needs foreign markets. Thi. glves Germany Q right to oversea trade. If the League of Nations is 9 reality. the supply of raw materials must be regulated by internationa agreement inc most-favored nauor 1 clause must be made general, an6 | there must be universal freedom | of trade. This means that the free dom of the seas must be recognized
 always provided that account is talk
 on of the special necessities of Ems. land.---By the International News Bureau, Inc, Boston, Mass.