The Twin City star., 1919-01-04

change very quickly. In the throes Of
her defeat Germany may seem-will
undoubtedly deem herself-disenchan
ed with the fruits of her national
ambition. But what man experienced
in the workings of the human mind
would venture to risk the possibilities
Of another war like this one on the
chance that Germany's disench0t-
ment will be permanent, that the f:sal
outcome of the defeat, in German
minds, will not be discomfort, humilia-
tion, angry or sullen, and persistent
determination to recover at least part
Of what has been lost or, failing that,
to seek recoupment and expansion and
domination In fresh directions? No
man of probity and experience will
risk so fateful gamble. 1t must be
made impossible for Germany to be
unsafe to the democracies Of the
world. To do that it is vitality nec-
essary to have strong, trustworthy
non-German state on Germany's cast
ern marches. And the one region Gu
pable of becoming such state is
Poland. -
"For 1t is idle. worse than idle, to
dream Of constructing such a new
state in Europe for these specific pur-
poses unless the work Is done alorg
surely effective lines. The require
ments are extremely definite. A small
state will not do. Who would set a
nj In n,.<l Cell
grown desperado? A state incapable
Of full economic development will not
do. The chance of entanglements are
too great. 1t must be self-cOntained
as regards natural resources. A state
artificial racially will not do. 1t must
be one, as far as possible, racially CO.
hesive. A state wherein irresponsible
visiOnaries play the demagOgue over
an unleavened lump of peasantry will
not do. 1t must be state capable of
having real citizenry, as the United
States has-cOmposed of q people of
established lnd developed civilization,
racial culture and traditions, practical
abilities, proved liberalism.
Poles Best Fitted.
II believe you will find nowh, re in
central and eastern Europe a race
more fitted than the Polish people to
be the citizenry of such a state. And
I can state without fearing contrad!c-
ti6n that nowhere else in that region
will you find another race with &C I'M
clouded a moral and historical title
to the territory which will be needed.
"Just what is Poland, aside from be-
ing the region from which many immi-
grants came to the United States?
Where Is 1t?
"To see real Poland you will have to
make map of Europe in your mind.
On that map note how Germany lies
in great alluvial drainage basin,
with the central mountain masses of
the continent walling 1t to the south
and with five rivers running down
from them to the North sea and the
Baltic. Westernmost Is the Rhine.
Next comes the Weser, with its porr
at Bremen, and the Elbe, with Ham
burg. Fourth Is the Oder, with Frank
fort. and Stettin. Last and eastern
most the Vistula, which rises in the
Carpathian ridges, flows down by War
saw and empties into the North sea
at Dantzig in West Prussia.
"In the vistula valley and It's drain
age areas live the thirty-five million
people OF the submerged Polish ma
tion. That region Is Poland. Part of
1t is still marked Poland on the maps,
but most of it needs Identification
since the Partitions when the auto
Gratis who then ruled Germany, Russia
and Austria each took his helping.
"Germany's slice you will find on
the west, extending all the way from
the mountains to the Baltic. Silesia