This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of frontiers on the basis of a mutual understanding is concerned, the people interested, when they desire to remain in their old government, Photo by Paul Thompson PHILIP SCHEIDEMANN N ice-President of the Reichstag and Leader of the Majority Socialists must be assured regarding all judicial and economic possibilities ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...of frontiers on the basis of a mutual understanding is concerned, the people interested, when they desire to remain in their old government, Photo by Paul Thompson PHILIP SCHEIDEMANN N ice-President of the Reichstag and Leader of the Majority Socialists must be assured regarding all judicial and economic possibilities connected with changing their residence. It is understood the rejection of all forced annexations also covers the restitution of invaded colonies. Ii. WAR INDEMNITIES The imposition of war indemnities has been rejected. It could not be realized otherwise than by totally crushing one of the belligerents. But each day of continued struggle increases so much the sum of sacrifices in wealth and blood for both sides that, merely for that motive, it would be inadmissible to retard peace for the sake of obtaining indemnities. Otherwise, the economic oppression of one nation by another would make a durable peace impossible. IIi. RESTORATIONS In so far as this question applies to political restoration, --that is, to the reestablishment of national independence--our answer is in the affirmative.-On the contrary, we reject the idea of one-sided obligations to repair damages in territories affected by the war. These damages have resulted on all fronts from acts of hostile as well as friendly troops advancing or in retreat. Sometimes they were the immediate results of gun-fire, at other times they were measures taken for military safety. It appears to us extremely difficult to determine the origin of each damage case and to examine military justification. An obligation binding on one side only to repair damages would be nothing less than a disguised form of war indemnity. For states ruined by the war, which would be unable to reestablish by themselves their..
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