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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The shores and islands of the Aegean Seashould belong to Greece. Greek people haveinhabited them for thousands of years. TheAlbanians are a separate people, while Monte-negro and Bosnia should be joined to Serbia. Turn back to previous maps of Europe in this ^^® . volume and you will see that most of the changeschanging ^ ^ ° map that have been made of late years are bring- ing boundaries nearer where they should be. The Map of Europe 249 You will also note that wherever there have beenrecent changes contrary to this plan, they havealways resulted in more bloodshed. The par-tition of Poland, the annexation of Schleswig,Alsace, and Lorraine to Germany, the division of Bulgarian Macedonia between Serbia andGreece, and the seizure of Bosnia and Herze-govina by Austria are good examples. Questions for Review (a) What countries of Europe have fairly well-markednatural boundaries? (6) Who are the Walloons? (c) Who are the Romansh people? (d) To what other people are the Esthonians related?
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(250) Chapter XXITHE COST OF IT ALL What war debts mean.— The devastation of farms andvillages.— Diseases which travel with war.— The men pickedto die first.— The survivors and their children.— The effecton France of Napoleons wars.— What Hannibal did to Rome.— What happened to the Franks.— Sweden before and afterthe wars of Charles XII.— Europe at the close of the GreatWar.— Wars effect on the finer feelings of men.— Arbitrationand an international court.— An opportunity for some nation. In the meanwhile, all the countries in the warwere rapidly rushing toward bankruptcy. Eng-land spent $10,000,000 a day; France, Germany,and Austria nearly as much apiece. Thusin the course of a year, a debt of $100 waspiled upon every man, woman, and child in theBritish kingdom. The average family consists debtof five persons, so that this means a debt of$500 per family for each year that the warlasted. The income of the average familyin Great Britain is less than $500 in a ye

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