No help, however great, or over however long a period it were continued, could prevent those deaths _en masse_." "We do not know, and indeed we doubt," the report concludes, "whether the Delegates of the Allied and.

Associated Powers realize the inevitable consequences which will take place if Germany, an industrial State, very thickly populated, closely bound up with the economic system of the world, and under the necessity of importing enormous quantities of raw material and foodstuffs, suddenly finds herself pushed back to the phase of her development, which corresponds to her economic condition and the numbers of her population as they were half a century ago.

Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children." I know of no adequate answer to these words.

The indictment is at least as true of the Austrian, as of the German, settlement.

This is the fundamental problem in front of us, before which questions of territorial adjustment and the balance of European power are insignificant.