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Rh for economic emancipation from Germany will find an echo among the Slavs, who have the same desire, and who will facilitate her task of eliminating German industrial competition.

A united and independent Poland, free Russia, and a democratic, independent, Czecho-Slovak State will form an impassable barrier against Germany. In the South, Greater Serbia, composed of Serb, Croatian, and Slovene territories, and forming an independent Jugo-Slav State, will complete the encirclement of Germany.

Transylvania will be reattached to Rumania, and independent Hungary would only keep for herself the territories inhabited exclusively by the Magyars.

Thus the principle of nationality will have full expression, consistent with the strategic and political necessities involved

This solution of the Austro-Hungarian problem will once and for all make impracticable the imperialistic Pan-German plans of Berlin, and will definitely bar the road to the Drang nach Osten of the Germans—the German push towards the East.

The free Slavs, in association and communication from the Baltic to the Adriatic, continually threatened by the Germans, will have every inducement to support each other. France and Italy, equally threatened by the Germans, will