Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-23 | Page 3 | Harden Attacks Hun Aggression Policy

HARDEN AHACKS HON AGGRESSION POLICY Wants No Russian Terri- tory; Restoration of Alsace-Lorraine Eventually. AMSTERDAM, Jan. -2. Germany should not tn.ke any territory from the Russian empire and might give back Alsace-Lorraine to France, Maximilian Harden declares in Die Zukunft. He says: "He who wishes to tear away P'oland. Courland, Lithuania. Esthonla and Livonia from the Russian empire makes of this empire a mortal enemy, for Russia will not always have Lenlnistic feelings. These countries would hring us no advantage. ad-vantage. Their economic development could not in the least be helped hy sold fertilisation by Germany with its one hundred and fifty billion marks of war debt, and a flavic strain through Germany Ger-many would endanger the life of the country, coun-try, not merely the life of East Prussia. After our experience in the west. Is (here now to be created a much greater and more dangerous Alsace-Lorraine?" With regard to Alsace-Lorraine, I-Ierr Harden writes: "Neither Lloyd George nor President Wilson believes Germany is willing to surrender Alsace-Lorraine to France at the present moment, hut what about Germany's Ger-many's attitude two or three yeaxs after peace ie signed when there can be a fair consultation with the people? If was admittedly ad-mittedly a. mistake to take possession of Alsace-Lorraine. Must we always carry this burdensome inheritance of our forefathers? fore-fathers? We a.re strong enough to be our own masters and to cease to be trammeled by errors of the past."