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“It carried on the war against France with an
inflexible and altogether unnecessary severity,
and it tore from that State Elsass-Lothringen.”
The attempt is certainly made to justify
this by the fact that both these provinces
formerly belonged to Germany, and that it was
an absolute necessity for Germany to acquire
a military guarantee against a fresh attack on
the part of France.
Kamarowski shows both these grounds to
be untenable. If nations should continually
look back to the past, and strive to renew the
old conditions, they never could found a more
durable or righteous state of things in the
present.
What ought to be decisive is, that in these
unhappy provinces the sympathy of the great
part of the population is completely on the side
of France.
The possession of Strasburg and Metz has
not only failed to give Germany the anticipated
security; it has, on the other hand, compelled
the Germans to live since 1871 in perpetual
unrest; to keep on foot an immense army, and
to expend their last resources in building
fortresses. Besides, this possession cripples
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