Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule

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H. Holt, 1917 - 246 Seiten
 

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Seite 2 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Seite 137 - Since last spring, in consequence of the excitement produced by the result of the elections, we have introduced a number of more or less vexatious measures, which have aroused much ill-feeling. Prince Bismarck thereupon desired me to introduce the system of compulsory passports against France, which existing legislation allows me to do upon my own initiative. He informed me that our ambassador at Paris would not be allowed to visa any pass without previously asking permission, so that infinite delays...
Seite 205 - Emperor of Germany must be able to tell a lieutenant at any moment, ' Take ten men with you and close the Reichstag.
Seite 232 - ... they have tolerated. Modern Europe cannot allow a people to be seized like a herd of cattle; she cannot continue deaf to the repeated protests of threatened nationalities; she owes it to her instinct of self-preservation to forbid such abuses of power. She knows, too, that the unity of France is now, as in the past, a guarantee of the general order of the world, a barrier' against the spirit of conquest and invasion. Peace concluded at the price of a cession of territory could be nothing but...
Seite 14 - At the moment of leaving the chamber where our dignity no longer permits us to sit, and in spite of the bitterness of our grief, the supreme thought which we find...
Seite 63 - La Marseillaise." Only a quirk of fate deprived France's and freedom's national hymn of its rightful title, " La Strasbourgeoise." The great French historian, Fustel de Coulanges, said in 1870 in a passionate, but wonderfully restrained, reply to certain violent letters of Mommsen: " Do you know what made Alsace French ? It was not Louis XIV, it was our Revolution of 1789. Since that moment Alsace has followed all our destinies, she has lived our life. All that we have thought, she has thought,...

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