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Show FAIRNESS Germany Is now crying fair treatment. treat-ment. Let us look back to a time when Germany won, or thought she was winning the war, or past wars. Two noted peace terms, or group3 of peace terms were put out by Germany Ger-many when she thought she had the war won. The first one, fathered by her six greatest associations, both agricultural ag-ricultural and industrial demanded the p.actlcal annexation of Belgium. The possession of a strip of Franco beyond Belgium, reaching to the Somme, including the coal and Iron fieldj of Brtey, the coal fie'os north of Calii-i, ili,- cities ot Vt'.m and j Belfort and all between them. Of Russia they demanded, an extension of 'the frontiers' to the east, by annexing an-nexing the Baltic provinces and all i south of them. The other set of terms were adopted at a meeting of June 1915, and was signed by 352 pro- i lessors, 15S schoolteachers and clergymen, cler-gymen, 145 superior administrative officials, mayors and members of city councils, 14S Judges and advocates. ' 40 members of the Imperial Diet and 1 of state legislatures. IS retired admirals ad-mirals and generals. 1S2 manufac- turers. merchants and bankers, 52 agriculturalists, and 252 artists, writers writ-ers and publishers. : "'The Gmn nation en conclude no peace but one that provides secum bases for its strategic need, for its political and economical interest, and for the unhampered exercise of its strength and its spirit of enterprise at home and on the free sea. Further we must keep Belgium firmly in our hand as regards the political and military matters and as regards economic interests. On no point is the German nation more united unit-ed in its opinion: to it the retention of Belgium is an indubitable matter of honor. We must ruthlessly weaken France politically and economically for the sake of our own existence and we must improve against her our strategical strate-gical position. For this purpose, according ac-cording to our conviction, a thorough improvement west from Belfort' the coast is necessary. We must conquer con-quer as great a nart as possible of the north French Channel coast In order to obtain greater strategical security against England and a bette-outlet bette-outlet to the ocean. On our enstren frontier the population popula-tion of the Russian Empire Is inereas-at inereas-at a monstrous rate at a rate of two-and two-and ane-half to three million a year. Within a generation the population will amount to 250.000.000. Against this overwhelming preponderance on our eastern flank. Germany can assert as-sert herself only If she sets up a strong barrier and also a basis for safeguarding the growth of our own population are to befound In the territory ter-ritory that Russia must cede to us." Thus it will he seen that a large representative groun of Germans pro-nosed pro-nosed to the government and it is to be borne in mind that these proposals propo-sals were received without protest to take over or subordinate to Germany Ger-many the whole of Belgium with its 7,500,000 population, a large area in France with 3.500.000 population, with a large area in Russia with 5,000,000 population. The total amount of land to be acquired under this programme aggregates approximately 130,000 square kilometers with a total population popu-lation of 16.000.000. Both the six associations and the professors declare that "it would be dangerous to admit the habitants of the districts to full political equality with the German population." "The government and administration o' Belgium," they declare, "must be so eondueted that the inhabitants sha'l obtain no influence upon political destinies des-tinies of the German Empire." The same with respect to population taken tak-en over from France and from Russia. Rus-sia. In the case of the French citizens citi-zens wrho were to fall under German mle. this recommendation is based on our experiences in Alsace-Lorraine." The professors are like-minded. "No political influence in the emnire." they declare, "is to be con ceded" to the inhabitants of France and Belgium. In the case of the Slavs in the part of Russia to be annexed the memorials memor-ials urge that they be deported bodily bodi-ly to the end that the land may be open for German occupation untroubled untroub-led by its present occupiers, who are to be sent God knows where. The six associations and the processors pro-cessors concur in certain further recommendations. rec-ommendations. In Belgium "the economic enterprises and possessions that are important for the domination domina-tion of the country," in the districts including medium and large land-holdings," land-holdings," are to be taken from their former proprietors and put into German Ger-man possession." Both memorial suggest that the expropriated French citizens shall be indemnified and taken tak-en over to France as part of the war indemnity to be paid by that country. coun-try. Neither memorial explains how the expropriated Belgians are to be indemnified or what is to become of them. As regards the districts to be ceded in the east, the six associations simply declare that "the war indemnity indem-nity to be paid by Russia must con sist largely in the transrer or private titles to land." That the purposes set forth in the foregoing paragraphs were in entire accordance with the ideas and plans of the German government there can be no doubt. In 1915 Colonial Secretary Secre-tary Solf declared that Germany's colonial col-onial possessions must be maintained and increased "without nreindioe to the possible acquisition of territory in Europe." A |