Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...et moraux des pays d'empire, avec la ferme volonté d'en faire ce qu'ils doivent être, une partie de notre patrie allemande" fact, has reached such a pitch that it is doubtful if a scheme of frank autonomy could now settle the question of Alsace-Lorraine. In his admirable pamphlet, Le Cauchemar de VEurope, M. Albert Gobat, a Swiss Conseiller d'Etat, returning from a prolonged visit to Alsace in the autumn of 1910, argues eloquently that if the Imperial Government would only decide to place AlsaceLorraine on the same footing as the Grand Duchy of Baden, or as the free towns of Hamburg and Lubeck (that is to say, grant them autonomy), such action, by lifting the annexed Provinces to the dignity of a nation, well above international complications, would guarantee the peace of Europe. The Constitution, at all events, will simply maintain the annexed Provinces in the relation of a fief to a sovereign lord. M. Gobat's proposal is the most obvious justice, but it is doubtful if those who know what the word Reichsland really implies, or if those who are best acquainted with the present state of Europe, will be as optimistic as he, in believing that even the inconceivable granting of autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine would usher in the era of European peace. An autonomous Alsace-Lorraine would add one more to the series of buffer States situated between France and Germany; but the buffer quality of all these States, from Switzerland to Luxembourg and Belgium, is a mere diplomatic fiction which would vanish like a wisp of straw in the event of a European conflagration. At the present moment no international Treaty, no diplomatic instrument or convention is worth the paper on which it is written. They might as well have been formulated on...
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