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reached the sea banks of Danzig and the sea shore; the forcible, inhuman Germanization of the Slavs justify such German losses.[1]
(12) The entire Polish nation, in Russia, Austria, and Prussia, must be united into an independent state. It will have the access to the seas through its own territory (Danzig).
(13) The Bohemian Lands (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia) with the Slovaks of Northern Hungary must form an independent state. The boundaries of the Bohemian Lands are given, for the Bohemian state is by law independent; the so-called German territory in Bohemia (Moravia and Silesia) has many Czech inhabitants, therefore it is just that the renewed state keeps it; it would be unjust and inhuman to sacrifice hundred thousands of Bohemians to the furore teutonicus; as late as 1861 the Germans in Bohemia were one with the Czechs in demanding the coronation of Francis Joseph as King of Bohemia—no doubt, after this war the Germans in Bohemia will abandon the national fury into which they have been driven by the brutal Pangerman agitation. Many Germans themselves more than once protested against the Pangerman policy of severing North and West of Bohemia and trying to establish a new capital in one of the German towns.
Respecting the Magyar minority, it must be emphasised that there are no Magyars in Slovakia, only Magyar-speaking individuals; the Magyars closed the Slovak schools, suppressed the Slovak literature, and are trying by all means to denationalize the Slovaks. It is only just to stop this brutal, inhuman policy and to force the Magyars to rely on their own national forces.
It was reported, that the Hungarian Ukrainians (the Ukro-Rusins and the Carpatho-Russians) wish to be incorporated as an autonomous unit in the Czecho-Slovak state. And it was also proposed to connect Slovakia with Jugoslavia by a kind of a corridor starting at Presburg and stretching south along the boundaries of Lower Austria and Styria to the River Mura; this area takes in Hungarian territory, but is inhabited by Germans, not Magyars, with Croatian colonies and a Slovene minority.
(14) The Ukrainians (in Galicia, Bukovina, Hungary) will become a part of the Russian Ukraine.[2]
15) The Magyar nation forms an independent state.
16) The Roumanians of Austria, Hungary, Russia, will be united with Roumania.
(17) Jugoslavs form an independent federation, led politically by Serbia. Montenegro will decide, through its parliament, whether it any longer wishes to be independent or united with Serbia.
(18) Bulgaria will be recognized within its boundaries before the war, it may be given part of Turkish territory.
(19) Albania will remain free. It has been proposed that she may federate with Serbia or Greece or Italy—but that must be decided by the Albanians themselves. Albania cannot have a German ruler or any prince connected with Austria or Germany.
(20) Turkey must no longer be allowed to keep any territory in Europe, the Allies agreed on this point in their Note to President Wilson. Constantinople and the Dardanelles will probably be administered by a
- ↑ The German professor Schaefer in his ethnographical map (1916) gives the following statistics of non-German nations in Germany—Prussia: Poles, 3,746,000; French, 216,000; Danes, 147,000; Lithuanians, 106,000. These figures are estimated to be too low; Schaefer’s map conceals the fact that there are Lusatians and Czechs in Prussia. Some ethnographers, even Slavs, declare the Kashubs are a nation distinct from the Poles, and the Lusatians also are divided into two branches. A more detailed ethnographic exposition is here unnecessary. (There are in Prussia, just as in the Austrian Bukovina, Russian colonies, &c., but these questions are without political significance.)
- ↑ The terminology in the case of the Ukrainians is embarrassing. Ukraine, Ukrainians has been used of the part of the nation living in the south of Russia; in Austria the name Ruthenians or Rusins has been used. The whole nation is often called Little Russians, in distinction of the Great (and White) Russians.Not all Ukrainians claim to be a separate nation distinct from the Russians; in Austria and Hungary there has been a political party professing the national unity with the Russians and calling themselves Russians (vide the mentioned Carpatho-Russians).
