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Excerpt from A Plan for the Settlement of Middle Europe on the Principle of Partition Without Annexation
T this stage of the war, it is not unreasonable to antici A pate an ending consonant with righteousness, and to consider what must be done, in the case of a Middle Europe defeated in its great conspiracy, forever to prevent this sort of thing happening again. When victory comes and the Central Powers await judgment, not as coordinate members of a diplomatic peace council, but as convicted criminals before the Court of Europe, what is the verdict that will be passed on them in final judgment?
I do not propose to deal with the question of restitution and reparation: this is already determined. All that can be done for the rehabilitation of Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Roumania, Armenia, will be done. With out this, whatever may be gained nothing would be gained. The question of penalization, as apart from restitution, is be yond the scope of the inquiry. The one point I wish to con sider is this. What action is to be taken to make impossible for the future the framing of a plot and the unleashing of a calamity such as have brought the present phase of civilization to an end in horror, failure and humiliation?
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