Prussian - Poland, a Stronghold of German Militarism: If Re-united with the Whole Polish Nation to an Independent State, One of the Strongest Pillars of the Future European PeaceE. H. Petersen, 1917 - 66 psl. |
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
Administrative district Allenstein already Assembly Baltic Sea boundary-line census of 1910 Central Powers Coalition Powers Commission of Colonization connection count Cracow Danzig Delbrück Dernburg Deutsche Ostmark Deutsche Reich district of Allenstein East Prussia Eastern Marches future Polish Galician German authorities German census German nation German official census German parliament German population German Socialist Germans Bilinguals Germans Poles Hamburg and Bremen Hans Delbrück Kingdom of Prussia lish Middle Silesia military service mines mouth natural boundary number of Poles Oberschlesien Obra river Oder river Partsch Polish army Polish Club Polish community Polish Daily Polish Diet Club Polish labourers Polish nation Polish political Polish provinces Polish question Polish Republic Polish territories Posen President Wilson Prince von Bülow Pruss Prussia-Germany Prussian Government Prussian Poland sian Poland Slavonic statesmen Statistisches Jahrbuch Stolpe river subterranean treasures Sudet Upper Silesia Uppersilesian industries Vistula river West western frontier western provinces whole country whole Polish
Populiarios ištraukos
7 psl. - So far as practicable, moreover, every great people now struggling towards a full development of its resources and of its powers should be assured a direct outlet to the great highways of the sea. Where this cannot be done by the cession of territory, it can no doubt be done by the neutralization of direct rights of way under the general guarantee which will assure the peace itself. With a right comity of arrangement no nation need be shut away from free access to the open paths of the world's commerce.
10 psl. - ... and they are not continuing it for any such object. Their purpose at the outset was to defend the existence of their country and to enforce respect for international engagements. To those objects has now been added that of liberating populations oppressed by alien tyranny. They heartily rejoice, therefore, that Free Russia has announced her intention of liberating Poland, not only the Poland ruled by the old Russian autocracy, but equally that within the dominion of the Germanic Empires.
7 psl. - I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united, independent and autonomous Poland...
14 psl. - In the struggle between nationalities one nation is the hammer and the other the anvil ; one is the victor, and the other the vanquished.
16 psl. - ... the East by that of the Poles. Only a well-thought-out scheme to further German nationality could prevent the latter from succumbing utterly. If the differences between the nationalities were thereby immediately intensified, it was certainly unfortunate, but it could not be avoided. In political life there are often hard necessities whose behests we obey with a heavy heart, but which must be obeyed in spite of the sympathies and emotions. Politics is a rough trade in which souls burdened with...
3 psl. - Btilow asserts when writing on the "new land in the East, entered by right of conquest at the time when Germany's Imperial power was at its zenith."* It is, therefore, to be taken as granted that all politicians and statesmen are generally informed about the Prussian "Eastern Marches," or, as we Poles are accustomed to say, the cradle of our fatherland.
60 psl. - Polish members of both Houses of the Austrian parliament and of the Galician diet. The collective name of the Polish representatives of these three legislative chambers is "Polish Diet Club" which, in fact, is regarded as the exclusive political representation of the Poles in the Austrian Empire.