Excerpt from How to Help AnnexationHE practical proposal that the war should end, substantially with a German evacuation of Belgium and Serbia, is certainly not so impossible, at least in the physical sense, as some might sup pose. Nay, it might well be regarded as an example of history repeating itself. It might be said that the Germans have proved in'the past that they possess the magnanimity and sagacity to with draw their armies from lands in which they were in armed occupation. Thus it is a fact to be gravely noted that after 1870 the Germans did not continue to occupy the whole of France for ever. Although the King of Prussia was so satisfied with the taste and comfort of the Palace of Versailles that he selected it among all his country residences for the scene of his coronation as German Emperor, yet he good-naturedly withdrew after a time and exiled himself from these familiar scenes, retiring to some modest and unpretentious home in Potsdam or Berlin. The conquerors were even then too tem perate and merciful to impose upon all the citizens of France that admirable system of German educa tion, necessarily accompanied by the imposition of the German language, which they have imposed on that fringe of more fortunate Frenchmen whom they found living in Alsace. Notre-dame de Paris has not; after all, become in any sense a German cathe dral in the same fashion as Cologne; and the quaint old symbol of the French flag, as well as a quite distinctive dress for French' policemen and soldiers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.