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Show 00 WHAT MUST BE EXACTED. L Though he Is a rabid partisan and ( occasionally sees with prejudiced eyes, Henry Cabot Lodge, ranking Itepublic-I Itepublic-I an member of the senate committee k on foreign affairs, Is one of the great intellectuals to whom we must look for guidance during this reforming of nations. na-tions. In a public reviewing of the complex situation in Europe, Senator Lodge laid down the following fundamentals: funda-mentals: "So far as possible the things which Germany has taken, like works of art and articles of value, must be restored. This work can never be complete, for Germany combines in happy proportion the methods of tho lowest city thief with those of a barbarian bar-barian conqueror, and the pecuniary compensation which must bo made to Belgium and the other countries cursed by the Gorman presence must be sought not only In money, but in her colonies. "Those colonies must be taken from her because they would aid her in developing de-veloping a navy and a commerce which might again threaten the peace of the world. "As security we must hold indemnities indemni-ties such as the right bank of the Rhine as Germany held French provinces prov-inces in 1871. "In fho flrct ni9tn -r 1 ! ;. iinv-c t: .must restore Belgium. "Luxemburg must be added to Bel-gium. Bel-gium. "Alsace and Lorraine must go back to France, without conditions and without with-out deductions. "The Italia Irredenta all those areas where Italians predominate, in-eluding in-eluding Trieste must go to Italy. "Montenegro, Serbia and Roumania must all be restored to full power and independence. "The allies must see to it that Albania Al-bania is cared for and that Greece is made secure. I "We must have a free and independent independ-ent Poland ocupied by the Polish people. peo-ple. It must be a large Poland, including includ-ing all areas where the Polish people are now dominant. We must have a Poland powerful enough to serve not only as a barrier to German advance to the east, but also as a protection and help to Russia. It must be a Poland Po-land with access to the sea, so vigorous vigor-ous that it will be able to central Europe Eur-ope to repel all assaults upon freedom and civilization as In the bygone cen-turies cen-turies it flung back the invasion of the Turks. "We must have a free and independent independ-ent Ozecho-SIovak state and a free and independent Jugo-Slav state. "Bulgaria must share the fate of her German owner; and Turkey not only in order to thwart Germany but on account of her own crimes, must be expelled from Europe. Constantinople Constanti-nople must be made an international city under the control of the allies so that the Straits of tho Dardanelles shall ever be open to the commerce of the world. "The oppressed people of Asia Minor, the Armenians and Syrians J must be protected and Palestine must never again return to Turkish rule, but, by general accord with tho announced an-nounced British policy, must be turned ovor to the Jewish people to. protect the holy places of both the Jewish and the Christian religious. Tho independent independ-ent Arab kingdom of Mecca must bo recognized and sustained. "Russia must bo entirely redeemed from German control. No part of Russia Rus-sia must be allowed to remain In Germany's Ger-many's hands. Wo cannot permit that vast coluntry to be used by Germany as a source of supplies which would neable hor again to enter into war. It will be tho duty of tho allies to see to it that tho rights and freedom of the Lithuanians, the Letts, tho Esthonians and the Finns aro guarded and cared for, not only because justice demands it, but because wo must sec to it that Germany has no control of tho Baltic." |