Word: rautzau
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...beaten bully is again howling for mercy. The latest whine of the German peace delegation declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from...
Prussia is complaining because the territory which she has wrested from others, is now being taken from her. Count Rautzau says that West Prussia which has always been a German state, and is predominantly German, should not, according to rights of peoples for self determination, be ceded to the new Poland. One only need look at the facts of population and history to refute this argument. In 1910 the population of West Prussia was 1,703,474 of which 980,-571 were of Polish stock. Frederick the Great added West Prussia to his kingdom, comprising Pomerania and East Prussia...
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