Die Grenzboten, 1915, No. 9 (March 3, 1915).
The article “European Alliance of States?” is an open letter of a certain 0. B. to Professor G. Heymans of Groningen.
This professor, with four other persons, form a committee calling itself “the European alliance of states”. This committee has published Heymans’s appeal: “To the Citizens of the Belligerent States”, to which the open letter in Die Grenzboten is a reply.
The open letter, inter alia, raises the question of colonies (p. 270). “Is their ‘internal independence’ not also desirable? And are not the Indians, Negroes and Tatars also fully ‘equal’ with Britons, Frenchmen and Russians?”... (270).
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...“The British colonial empire, which is not founded ‘on the equality and internal independence’ of the colonial peoples any- more than the other colonial empires, occu- pies about one-fifth of the globe. Ought Great Britain to retain this colonial empire until, perhaps, the British have died out in Britain herself, and will Germany not be allowed to obtain a single square metre of this empire, even if in the meantime her population has increased to 200 million?” (271).... |
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