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ALSACE-LORRAINE
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS TO CONGRES,
JANUARY 8, 1918
The wrong done to France by Prussia in
1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has
unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years should be righted, in order that peace may
once more be made secure in the interest of all.
Citizens
possessed
of intelli-
gence are not merchan-
dise to be traded and
therefore it is not law-
ful to make them the
subject of a contract.
Protest of the Representa-
tives of Alsace-Lorraine de-
livered in the Reichstag in
Berlin, February 18, 1874.
of
Peoples and prov-
inces are not to be bar-
tered about from sover-
eignty to
if they were mere
chattels and pawns in
souls
sovereignty
a game.
PRESIDENT WILSON
ary 11, 1918.
STATEMENT
of the Representatives of Alsace-Lorraine Read Be
the National Assembly in Bordeaux, March 1, 18
Handed over, in contempt of all justice, and 1
odious abuse of force, to the domination of for
ers, we have now a final duty to perform.
We declare once more null and void a comp
which disposes of us without our consent.
Henceforth and forever, we shall one and all be
justified in claiming our rights, in whatever manner
and measure our conscience may dictate.
At the moment of leaving this assembly, in which
our dignity no longer permits us to sit, and in spite
of the bitterness of our grief, the supreme thought
which we find 'at the bottom of
thought of gratitude to those who, for six months,
have incessantly fought in our defense, and our un-
alterable attachment to the country from which we
are torn by violence.
We shall follow you with
shall wait, with full confidence in the future, until
regenerated France resumes the eourse of her great
destiny..
Your brothers of Alsace and Lorraine, now sep-
arated from the common family, will cherish for
France, absent from their hearths, a filial affection,
preserved until the day when she shall recover her
rightful place there once more.
our hearts is a
our wishes, and we
OF.P.C,
"SHE IS WAITING
Reproduction of J. J. Henner's painting of-
fered to Gambetta by a group of Alsatian
women in remembrance of the National De-
fense of 1870-71.
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