Mediaeval and modern history . LATER EVENTS 647 Alsace and Lorraine is the only matter connected with thesemomentous transactions upon which space will allow us here tocomment anew. In insisting upon the surrender of these provinces, which wereand which still remain passionately French in sympathy and senti-ment, although only partly French in blood, Bismarck has beenseverely censured, since this seems a gross violation of the modernprinciple of nationality, particularly as the inhabitants of theceded territories were not allowed to have any voice in thequestion of their transference. But Bism
Mediaeval and modern history . LATER EVENTS 647 Alsace and Lorraine is the only matter connected with thesemomentous transactions upon which space will allow us here tocomment anew. In insisting upon the surrender of these provinces, which wereand which still remain passionately French in sympathy and senti-ment, although only partly French in blood, Bismarck has beenseverely censured, since this seems a gross violation of the modernprinciple of nationality, particularly as the inhabitants of theceded territories were not allowed to have any voice in thequestion of their transference. But Bismarck reasoned that moralguarantees, such as French gratitude for lenient treatment afterdefeat, would prove worthless; that French wounded vanitywould impel France again to attack Germany when a favorableopportunity occurred, and that consequently Germany must havematerial guarantees. These guarantees, said Bismarck, wecan secure only by pushing the frontier, the starting point ofFrench attacks, farther back to the West, and c
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