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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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industry tothe growth of military power which hadmade Germany a menace; the organizationof the world for the making of rules and reg-ulations, the safety of the seas, and the order-ly settlement of disputes. s tcific Among the various adjustmentsAdvance of a particular kind that the Agreement u i i j i_ j j whole world had agreed upon inthe armistice preliminaries was the rebuild-ing of Belgium and the full payment ofFrance and Belgium for damages incurred.It was well understood that Alsace-Lorraineshould be restored to France; that a re-unitedPoland should be established as an independ-ent government at the expense of Germanyand of the Austrian and Russian empires,with access to the sea at Danzig. It was un-derstood in like manner that Bohemia shouldbecome an independent country and thatthere should be suitable rearrangements ofterritory for the benefit of Rumania, Serbiaand Greece. No one who had given evensmall attention to the details of the questions THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 453
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A SCENE AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE—WITH G. N. BARNES. BRITISH LABOR MINISTER. ADDRESSING THE BODY involved could have expected these terri-torial adjustments to be w^orked out in afew weeks with cheerful acquiescence on allsides. The important thing to remember isthat, in the moment of their overwhelmingvictory, the Allies adopted ordinances of self-denial, and repudiated the principles of con-quest that Germany had set up for herself. Since so many things have been%nueror8 ^sserted from day to day regard-ing the aims and methods of oneor another of the Allies in the discussionsat Paris, it is well to have in mind the mainfacts, and not to be misled by the details. Inthe first place, then, Germany has not been indanger of being trodden under the feet ofher conquerors. Only a short time ago Ger-many was in military and political con-trol of Belgium, a considerable part ofFrance, immense portions of what had beenRussia, and so on. This German occupationwas oppressive to the last degree,

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