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Poland Resurgent 95 Germany at least three provinces and from Austria half its population. If to the freeing of the Poles there were added the logical work of liberating all Slavs, Austria would disappear from the map of Europe. There would appear at least three Slav States in its place: Poland, Bohemia and Serbo-Croa- tia. To Slavdom there would be added not less than 26,000,000 of Slavs, bound by ties of race, religion and common hatred of the German. Such in its wider aspect was the meaning of the rescript of the Czar. In It was to be found much warrant for the German assertion that at bottom the present war was a struggle between Slav and Teuton. A glance at an ethnological map of Europe serves to indicate the meaning of this promise. Not only is Galicia, west of Lemberg, with Cracow, an ancient capital of Poland, Included In that area which such a map assigns to the Poles, but so also is Posen in Prussia, almost at the gate of Berlin; while north- ward to the Baltic at Danzig, extends another penin- sula of Poles, separating the Germans of East Prus- sia from the mainland of Germanic territory. That district which Frederick the Great took in the first partition. In 1772, remains Pole by race, and Danzig, Koenlgsberg, all Germany east of the Vistula might logically be included in a new Poland, together with half of that Silesia which the great Prussian King seized a century and a half ago. And if Poland were to be reestablished why not Bohemia with its millions of Slavs, not less than

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