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a certain group of foreign political
writers would like to make a Ger
man bugaboo to frighten Belgium,
as a matter of fact, is not seriously
contemplated in either state.
'"The situation is the same in the
case of Holland. Holland also does
not produce any raw material which
German factories could nse. Holland
is a free-trade country, whose tariff
v dependent upon financial, not pro
tective considerations, and inasmuch
as Germany can derive advantages
from the markets of Holland, no tariff-union
is desirable. On the con
trary, German agriculture stands in
great need of the tariff wall between
the two countries.
Holland is an agrarian country
which imports grain and exports cat
tle. Unrestricted importation of cat
tle from Holland, which is now pre
cluded by German sanitary protective
BMasures, would drive the East-German
cattle from the markets of the
thickly populated West, and seriously
injure the agricultural interests , of
Eastern Germany.
"Several years ago, when the boldly
conceived canal project of the Prus
sian Government, which designed to
connect the East of Germany with
the West, was submitted for approval
to the German Diet, the strong con
cervative party and the other repres
entatives of agrarian interests suc
cessfully fought the bill, because they
ii;.it ei-h watrr-wav would favor
the influx of agarrian products, and
. thus impair the agricultural interests
of the East The same objections, in
a much higher degree, vc-id militate
against a removal of tariff boundar
ies between Germany and Holland.
"It may be argued, of course, that,
in the absence of commercial reasons,
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there may be political reasons rend
ering annexation desirable. Under
'existing conditions the Netherlands
which at one time were the classic
fighting ground of Europe, are no
longer of strategic-geographical wars,
and its armies fought side by side
with the Germans against Louis XIV
and Napoleon V, the Netherlands
were the inevitable battlefield. But
those times are past. Even if con
trary to all expectations peace on
the Continent should ever seriously
be menaced, the Netherlands are
completely out of the scope of the
probable battleground. Therefore,
strategic reasons are likewise unten
able. Is it then, to be supposed that
the free and independent Netherlands
constitute a political menace for Ger
many, a menace which Germany log
ically would wish to anticipate by
annexation f
"No sensible person in Germany or
the Netherlands believes that any
oolitical combination could be con
cluded, which, in a European conflict
could force the Netherlands into a
coalition with England or France,
directed against Germany. Only to
tal ignorance of the condition of both
nations, of their racial and historical
relationship, the interests they have
in common, can presuppose that the
free and independent Netherlands can
ultimately, or eventually work a polit
ical injury to Germany. The initi
ated know that Germany is assured of
the neutrality of the Netherlands, and
Germany requires nothing but this
neutrality.
'Moreover the person who persists
in attributing to Germany covetous
ness in the way of annexation, in re
gard to Holland, or Denmark, or the
German provinces of Austria-Hungaryin
spite of the fact that the hist
ory of German politics constitutes a
monument to the contrary totally
misconstrue the spirit and purpose of
the constitution of the German Emp
ire. Germany's not a federal state
into which other states can be read
ily incorporated. The , individual
states, forming this federal state, are
of greatly varying dimensions and
importance and consequently are re
presented in a congress of the united
governments, the Federal Council
Bundesrat with a varying number of
votes. Prussia, the largest of these
states, has the most votes, and thus
retains in the Federal Council(Bund
esrat) the historical leadership which
it has enjoyed since the Empire was
founded. Uoon this Prussian-corner
stone the Empire is reared. The re
lation of the states to each other
forms a tenacious, but complicated
eauiDOted-system, which, through
beinst thus complicated, assumes a
certain rigidity. The introduction of
other states into the system, conse-
ouentlv would not be a matter of
small moment and would not be
nearly as simple as the casual obser
ver mieht suppose. The introduction
of such a foreign body would lead
many of the individual states to
.i.ni rpnraanization of represen
tation by votes in the Federal Coun
cil (Bundesrat). Such a reorganiza
tion, like every decisive modification
of a Constitute, would at best be a
most difficult and hazardous under
taking. 7
"One must therefore ascribe to
ignorance of German conditions the
attitude of some chauvinistic paper of
WosL-m Europe, in deliberately at
temntine to undermine Germany's
reputation, particularly in the United
States, and to inspire with tear tne
Danes, the Bohemians, the Austrians,
the Hollanders, on the ground of a
possibly-impending union of their
crate with the German . Empire, a
union which in Germany itself even
I if desired, would encounter wellmgn
erable difficulties.
T certainly do not believe that
fqirv-tales of annexation origi
Holland. Their
w0 -
to be found elsewhere
' safety and assurance
i these two states, in
.sting conditions, has in
j the other, and logically
ve, is exemplified in the close
.,n sxistina between them,
'i , Wnme traditional. The
closeness of these relations is guar
anteed amply by parallel interests on
both sides and, by cultural and mental
motives.
"I believe the importance of the
mental clement in politics habitually
U to be underestimated. Depending
upon the racial divergences of differ
ent nations, these mental view-points
may manifest themselves tn various
directions and in varying degrees of
Intensity. In general, it is safe to say
that the peoples of the Germanic
race are less swayed than others by
momentary moods and by the elusive
sentiments of the imagination; rather
are they moved by a certain placid,
historic continuity, a kind of loyalty
to their own history. Their develop
ment is not fitful and arbitrary but
calmer and more direct. They re
fru'r from violating the traditions of
th. '" history. Germans and Hollan
ders, independently of the racial re
lationship of their sentiments and
their characteristics, possess com
mon mental history. In spite of
sentimental longings for the South,
the German artist ever remained
aware of an abyss betwixt himself
and the Southern masters, an abys
which even his sincerest admiration
and most unswerving devotion could
never completely bridge. There s
no such abyss between himself and
the ,. Hollander. The atmosphere
which they brethe, and which per
meates their very souls, is the same.
This may be of no importance in
politics, but it serves as an illustra
tion of a general unity of sentiment
which evinces itself in every phase of
life, and which reacts upon politics
by far more than a materialistic age
may be inclined to believe.
"Upon each page of German history
are inscribed the annals of the Neth
erlands, comhiemorating the same
inquenchable thirst for freedom and
independence that inspired ourselves.
The mental activities of both nations
have in particular been closely allied
for centuries. The philosophy and
literature of one country reacted
upon the other. The two nations
worked hand in hand.
"Politically, the same conditions
prevailed. I will not refer to earlier
hitorv. the assistance of the German
States during the Spanish occupation,
hich the Electors of Brandenburg
rendered the Netherlands, during the
wars of Louis XIV. The history of
the last century also perpetuates a
similar unity of political interests and
actions. The existance ot tne new
kingdom of the Netherlands dates
from the sorinir of the year 1814,
when the Prussian troops forced the
French to beat a retreat from Hol
land and Belgium. During the Con
gress of Vienna, when the Cabinets of
the four Powers which successfully
had combatted Napolean, England,
Austria, Prussia and Russia, planned
reoraanization of European attairs
which had been out into such sad dis
array by the French Emperor. These
four Powers determined to establish
the unified kingdom of Holland,-
which was to include Belgium, as
protective measure against a pos-
sihlv recurring French desire for ter
ritorial aggrandizement; and it was
then the Prussian king, acting in ac
cordance with England ministers,
who desired to make amends for the
loss of the two Dutch colonies of
rVvlon and the Cape, by increasing
the territory of the Netherlands on
the Continent, served the best inter-
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the victor at Sedan, they would have
forfeited their independence.
"However, I do not wish to over
emphasize these matters, which be
long to the past and to a wholly dif
ferent political situation, nor do 1
wish to advance the claim that the
Belgians entertain in regard to the
pacific France of today fears similar
to those which agitate them in the
days of Napolean III. Affairs have
undergone a general reconstruction
since then, and even the liveliest hist
orical reminiscences scarcely would
restrain Holland and Belgium from
giving a different direction to their
apprehensions, if there were any legi
timate reason for so doing. Never
theless, the recollection of the inti
mate association of the people of Ger
many and the Netherlands and Ger
many and Belgium, during the past,
will, in the absence of every legiti
mate reason prevent , these nations
from imputing to each other enmity
and illwill.but will promote instead
an eminently sane, mutual cordiality,
which, even if merely a matter of sen
timent, will have effect upon their
action and affairs.
, "I can only assure therefore that
the baseless fear pertaining to a pos
sible desire on Germany's part to
annex Belgium or Holland, certainly
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the continent, serveu mc v -idocS not emanatc from Belgium or
ests of the Netherlands because of .,.,, but from .ome D,accSi where
of needleless of this dread of an
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the traditional friendship which had
existed always between the two na
tions. In the year 1830, it was again
the King of Prussia who gave the
French to understand that any at
tempt on their part to annex Belgium
by taking advantage of the Brussels
revolution, would result speedily in
war with Prussia. Thus independ
ence wassecured to the Belgians.
At that time the Powers made a
treaty, declaring the Kingdom of
Belgium, which had been separated
from the Netherlands, to be a neu
tral state. The object of this was to
protect the little country from falling
a nrev to the territorial covetonsness
of some other nation, the case being
similar to the episode of 1815, when
the Allied Powers deemed it advis
flhlc'tn strnncrlv fortifv the Western
frontier of the Netherlands.
Tn the sixties, when Bismark was
hard at work on the unification of
Germany, Napolean III repeatedly
offered the great German statesman
tn withdraw completely from inter
ference in German internal anairs, in
return for Belgium. This proposi
tinn Bismark never even considered
Nor were the Belgians unmindful of
the fact that, had Napolean III been
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persons, unacquainted with Germany
and the Netherlands, blindly believe
that the big German Empire simply
must be possessed of an ambitiop to
annex its two smaller neighbors.
"It is possible, that after the war of
1870-1871, when Germany, powerless
and torn by centuries of dissensions,
which all Europe had been accust
omed to consider a quantite neglige-
able, suddenly sprung to the front as
a powerful, unified realm, some Hol
landers, and Belgians, viewing the
unaccustomed situation, began to feel
strange apprehensions lest the mighty
young State would-abuse and not
merely use its newly-won strength.
These apprehensions, however, soon
crumble away, and disappeared as a
concomitant manifestation of a transi
tion period.
"Today, however, the home of such
apprehensions is neither Belgium nor
Holland. Several years a bo. a erouo
of writers, inspired by influential poli
ticians of some powers of Western
Europe. Started a virulent campaign
for 'a Holland-Belgium Alliance in
dicated to be the only means of sav
ing these states from threatened an
nexation by the German Emperor,
It is possible such oohticans promul
gated these views in trood faith, and
believed themselves to be acting in
the interests of their own countries,
by holding up the German bugaboo
to all the small states and frighten
ing them into seekinff the protection
of their own altruistic and less dang
erous friendship.
"At all events, the best refutation
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