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Show GERMANY MAKING M0RTAL ENEMY To Tear Away Poland, Cour-land, Cour-land, Lithuania, Esthonia and Livonia Grave Mistake. WOULD BRING NO GAIN1 Maximilian Harden Reviews' Situation Would Give Back J Alsace-Lorraine. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22 Germany should not take any territory from tho Russian empire and might give back Alsace-Lorraine back to France, Maximilian Max-imilian Harden declares In Die Zei-kufL Zei-kufL He saj's: "He who wishes to tear away Poland, Po-land, Courland, Lithuania, Esthonia and Livonia from tho Russian empires makes of this empire a mortal enemy, fur Russia will not always bellevo Leninistic feelings. Those countries would bring us no advantage. Their economic development could not in the least be helped by gold fertilization fertiliza-tion by Germany with its ono hundred and fifty billion marks of war debt, and a Slax strain through Germany would endanger tho llfo of tho country, not merely the life of East Prussia. After our experience in the west is thero now to be created a much greater and more dangerous Alsace-Lorraine?" Alsace-Lorraine?" In regard to Alsace-Lorraine he writes: "Neither Premier Lloyd Georgo nor President Wilson believe Germany is willing to surrender Alsace-Lorraine to France at tho present moment, but what about Germany's attitude two or three years after peace is signed when there can be a fair consultation with tho people? It was admittedly a mistake mis-take to take possession of Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace-Lorraine. Must wo always carry this burdensomo inheritance of our forefathers? fore-fathers? We arc strong enough to be our own masters and to ccaso to be trammelled by errors of the past." 1 |