so many
millions of alien nationalities. If England speaks in this
way, though she is not in direct conflict with us, what can
we expect from Russia or Italy? Everyone knows that Russia
wants Galicia, the Bukovina, Maramaros; Serbia wants Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Croatia, Slavonia, and the Banat; Italy they
won to their side by promising her our territory;
Transylvania is promised to the one who cares to take it;
henceforth, if we wish to defend it, we shall have to
prepare for a new attack from another quarter. Yet nothing
would be more alien to our thoughts than that if victorious
we should annex foreign territory, for we would have
seriously to consider if such conquest would be to our
advantage or not. The same policy ought to be applied in
Germany. Though her enemies would not spare her either, she
must be cautious not to go too far in her appetites, and
should seek for monetary compensations. Most of all she has
to be careful not to claim territory, which would mean
everlasting unrest and a new irredentism. It would be a bad
policy even to touch the Balkans, for such interference
would sooner or later bring Russia back to the Balkans, and
the peoples there, menaced in their independence by us,
would turn to Russia. We would thus place nations used to
independence under alien rule, and such an act would neither
be a wise nor a paying policy.

As regards Italy, Count Andrassy has also a solution which is quite
generous. He says:

We would not do well if we were influenced by just revenge
and turned our eyes on Italian territory. To force territory
from a country whose people are so patriotic would be a
source of weakness on our part. In the worst case, only
boundary corrections can be thought of, and no conquest.
Italy must recompense us by money and not territory, for not
the Italian people, but its Government, committed a breach
of faith against us.

France's Bill of Damages

The agricultural problem in France is the subject of an article by
Professor Daniel Zolla in La Revue Hebdomadaire (Paris). Professor
Zolla is a leader in the agricultural school at Grignon, and the main
part of his article is a discussion of France's agricultural losses
and how to repair them. He sums the present situation as follows:

At the end of May the enemy were occ