'To the Editor of the "Nontn-Ciixa Dany News" {fall advantages of undiscriminated French citizenship in a rather dis-'Sin,—Britons and Americans axe tant future. very' munch concerned with the fate of German Jewry. But there are un-3, Alsace might be granted full autonomy with customs union with fortunately' other injustices jin. the fare, Luxembourg, Belgium, Swit~ world: which consequences might Zerland and Austria. France, Ger rove very fatal some day not only many, "sat-Britain and the League for France and Germany, but. for should "guarantee neat. ther nations as well which would become involved in their next struges, My family being Alsatian as far og Lean remember, may 1 try tell your readers without proveative Intentions. toward. anybody and as impartially. and objectively can, about this question Alsace, which ie officially settled by the treaties, but' still reinaing. unselves in all matters excepted nation: fete in hears and mind of most fee amer ares France, In'iater boards, th Should the Germanic language be! sufficient a reason to claim Alsace to be German, the populations of most Switzerland, half Belgivm, Holland, Luxembourg, 'Tyrol, "Aus trio and some Baltic' States' would Pa" olla a have to become German subjects to morrow, In the same Way, Prance cee i a would integrate parts of Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and even some Huguenot villages "of te Germany.
frankly recognised that Alsace has On the other hand, it must be! some reasons to criticise the French regime, France recovered the coun-
Star of civil servants RiNiantéas feng and awe fore commanded' by at least 278 try without affording very much sacrifices afterwards to grant her equitable participation in the life of the French state, Alsace is now invaded by French officials as tea-hers, tax-collectors, ete... Who do not care to understand" Alsat France proper. given so far since the reconquest Higher charges in the Government then. such of Secretary of State, while prominent negroes could ready be seen ruling important boards of the French Republic. Good jobs in French Administrations. and private firms outside of Alsace fare preferrently given to 100 per cent. Frenchmen, they are even riven abroad' {o' foreigners. fives rather than to. Alsatia This would be a sufficiently equity able, fair and practical solution, Te should be supported, for France is too. much a centralized state, where Paris rules. the provinces carelessly of their characteristics: Such regime can hardly be endured Alsace, who is almost a nation by herself.
'Actually, big changes _are _proceeding everywhere. Sooner Tater, they will remove all anachronfama' and instate absolutely new social and economic standards in the World." Big nations like the Btates, Germany, Soviet Russia, are Hooking for new ways, Even if their policies are criticised or condemned, They still deserve consideration for being at least trying to find Teme~ [dies to the helpless situation of the Latter are only given full chan in Army and Navy, where the pro pects are death, must he said that Alsatians are cote. geant extent deprived of com mon feelings and language rix well with French aa with Germans. There fare no ideals of race community and democratic prin Alsace as France and Germany say and perhaps believe, but only questions of national prestige, crops and potash, shortly of the moral and material wealth of n little nation, which is alternatively appropriated by two mighty neighbours, France is Franco and Germany is Germany. Millions of honest people of both countries are be-Hteved to be right, peaceful and endangered by a provocative neigh Hour. I surely wil not arrogate to myself the right to blame them, and it'woutd be @ waste of time to try to convince them of any failure of thely methods and ideas. Their an-fatality resulting of a 000 years old evolution, the more tragic as folks of both nations are dividually able to understand each other very Well, while their governments cannot help remaining. foes. French and German men certainly want pence: but just for this rea ron they wil once more fight to preser. ' peace, and involve us again nto their millenavia struggle. Both) fre probably right according to. re Iativity: if a child looks at a cons tenarian, he will wonder how old is, but Methuselah will find him' a baby. Having been educated in France, I may perhaps indulge to say the French are right, but elder compatriot educated in Ger many will believe the Germans are. Who ever knows? The only certain thing is Hat either the French the German educated Alsatian will ever be and fee) fully similar with the citizens of France and Germany.
Alsace will be directly menaced by any new war in Western Europe and this is a big artifeial nationality whatever, even as valuable as the French oF the German are, is worth of being paid with the sufferings of war.
Drove are four ways to solve the Alsatian problem:
After a war lable tod moe. country the "Alenia submitted fo some Hohensolletn iterate rule. unable tou fand and' allow their' democratic The Alsatians might remain French subjects qs they. are, submitted to. the extessive. centtalisation of Paris, not understanding the French and the French not under~ standing them. -aiThe first is unthinkable, the second hardly satisfactory but not ab-séJutely hopeless solution. It still world. This is anyhow better than doing nothing and relying on the past, as other big nations do.
ravinees and racial minorities; cannot any more be simply disposed of as they were in the times of Louis' VIX or Frederick I. The middle axes must definitely be cleared off.
"The Alsatian question is still unsettled, and it would be better to think seriously of solving it on a wise and broadminded way, instead of still considering it from an anachronical and narrow-minded point of view of territorial gains or losses.
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