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It is the ethical duty of a world organized for peace and advancement to see that Germany is not made a victim of short-sighted revenge, political ferocity or newspaper slanders, but that she be given sufficient space to breathe, that she be given room wherein to labour, in order that she may find an outlet for her enormous energies and aid in the great work of reconstruction and of new creation. It should also be remembered that Germany hitherto has had little outlet save the military career for those adventurous spirits which make the best colonists.
The enormous heart-breaking problems which the war and the loss of the war have placed upon her are utterly impossible of solution if access to the oversea lands built up by her foresight and her industry, be denied her.
The Young*est Republic’s Right to Live.
International good-will and equilibrium cannot be established by the wanton dismemberment and mutilation of the youngest and second largest Republic in the world, a republic whose future form of government will undoubtedly be based upon the most advanced and elevated principles of democracy. It would prove a great and unpardonable historic wrong if a nation in the moment of its achievement of political freedom at home, should be fettered abroad.