peace to gather her sons, daughters and children, who wander ↩
now without homes through immense space of Russia    , and ↩
to settle them on some suitable land in her neighbourhood. ↩
There is no doubt that Kurland    , a country of old Germany     tra- ↩
ditions though a Russian province, and very thinly populated, ↩
will be the best place for this colonisation. Germany promised ↩
freedom to  P o l a n d    , but the way how to organize it, is ↩
an open question left to the future.

12)          Germany is absolutely firm on the point, that a mere ↩
status quo in Belgium     is impossible, as Belgium, in future ↩
left free from any German influense, would be open to the ↩
military and economic organisation by England     and France     and ↩
wouldb be a perpetual threat on our most vulnerable frontier ↩
near the big centres of German industrial life. The Imperial ↩
Chancellor     at the last session of the Reichstag     asked for ↩
some material securities against that danger. Antwerp before the ↩
war was the centre of exportation of German industrial produce ↩
and is practically the great harbour at the mouth of the Rhine, ↩
where German commerce dominated. Germany, for the sake of her ↩
children's future, will not give up that position, she held ↩
before the war. A good many Germans hope to strengthen it ↩
by a custom - union. On the other hand the intellectual leaders ↩
of the Flemish nation, which ishope that their nation so famous in the world's ↩
history by the greatness of its art and which was suppressed ↩
by French influence during the last centuries, will be restored ↩
by that war to her own life. Germany cannot but follow the same ↩
line, as for the flemish nation, so nearly akin to tho Germans, ↩
and Flemish peasants and German soldiers understand each oteher ↩
without difficulty. Therefore the German government in Belgium