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German and the Magyar are now suf-
fering is at most only a small measure
of medicine they have administered to
the Pole, the Czech and the Rumanian
for centuries.
1t is clear, too, that no state can toll
crate within its frontiers any minor
ity, large or small, which refuses to
permit itself to be absorbed into the
national life and continues to pre-
serve its racial and linguistic unity
within an adjoining race to which it
looks steadily for ultimate liberation.
We in the United States went all
through this phase during the war
when we discovered to our horror that
we had German and other citizens
who retained a degree Of sympathy
with their native country, which
seemed to us to prevent real national
unity. How much more grave is the
problem for the Pole or Czech, whose
German minorities look over more or
less imaginary frontier barriers to
sixty millions of their race brethren
for aid and ultimate absorption,
Absorption Impossible.
If the Germans of Poland and
CzechoSlovakia and the Magyars of
Rumania were willing TO accept Slav
or Latin rule loyalty, to consent to
absorption by the majority. the eXpul-
sion policy would be at once indefen-
sible in humanity and stupid in prac-
tice, but this is not the case and it is
wholly unlikely that the Teuton and
Magyar. believing themselves mem
bers of a superior race. could ever be
brought to this capitulation. Indeed,
it is just as unreasonable to expect
these minorities to consent to dena-
tionaliZe themselves as to expect the
majorities to tolerate their continued
and ever dangerous presence.
If Hungary would consent to accept
her territorial losses to Rumania and
CZechoslovakia as permanent, the sit
uation of the Magyar minorities in
these states would be totally changed
and the justification for harsh meth
DDS as well as the temptation to use
them would disappear, but Hungary
will not do this. If Germany would
make a similar remuneration in the
matter of cessions to Poland and aban-
don any pretension to protect German
minorities in CZechoslovakia, the same
would be true. But Germany will do
nothing Of the sort. Moreover. to ex-
pect this would be to expect something
not only superhuman, but quite be-
yond any American capacity.
If, for example. the hundreds OF
thousands of French Canadians set
tied in New England sought to pre-
serve their individuality and to serve
as basis for ultimate annexation of a
vast French Canada, assuming that 1t
existed, one can see quite promptly
what the American attitude would be.
The only difference between our atti-
tude and that of Poland or Czechoslo-
vakia or Rumania is that we insist
that the people who come to our
shores shall become American while
they insist that the mfnorities which
have long been established in their
present territories, where they have
represented an alien oppressor, shall
either do this same thing or get out
and since they decline to submit, en-
force expulsion.
Swiss Position Secure.
three races represented, and one, the
German, is in great majority. But
the adjustment between the races is
complete, the French character Of five
cantons is accepted as Is the Teu-
tonic nature of nineteen and the Ital-
ian of one. What Is decisive, however,
is the fact that neither Germany.
France nor Italy cherishes any design
to claim it's race brethren and the race
brethren themselves manifest not the
smallest desire to be claimed. Quite
the contrary. they accept the Swiss
sovereignty with all the enthusiasm
and loyalty of a Frenchnan for
France, German for Germany or an
Italian for Italy.
If one could imagine that In the
course of time the present emigra-
tions. even though enforced, would
lead to the disappearance Of minori-