ARTICLE BY O. B. 'EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF STATES?' (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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ARTICLE BY O. B. “EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF STATES?”

Die Grenzboten, 1915, No. 9 (March 3, 1915).

The article “European Alliance of States?” is an open letter of a certain 0. B. to Professor G. Heymans of Groningen.

This professor, with four other persons, form a committee calling itself “the European alliance of states”. This committee has published Heymans’s appeal: “To the Citizens of the Belligerent States”, to which the open letter in Die Grenzboten is a reply.

The open letter, inter alia, raises the question of colonies (p. 270). “Is their ‘internal independence’ not also desirable? And are not the Indians, Negroes and Tatars also fully ‘equal’ with Britons, Frenchmen and Russians?”... (270).

...“The British colonial empire, which isnot founded ‘on the equality and internalindependence’ of the colonial peoples any-more than the other colonial empires, occu-pies about one-fifth of the globe. Ought GreatBritain to retain this colonial empire until,perhaps, the British have died out in Britainherself, and will Germany not be allowed toobtain a single square metre of this empire,even if in the meantime her population hasincreased to 200 million?” (271)....	quotationfrom thecommittee’sappeal
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...“The British colonial empire, which isnot founded ‘on the equality and internalindependence’ of the colonial peoples any-more than the other colonial empires, occu-pies about one-fifth of the globe. Ought GreatBritain to retain this colonial empire until,perhaps, the British have died out in Britainherself, and will Germany not be allowed toobtain a single square metre of this empire,even if in the meantime her population hasincreased to 200 million?” (271)....

quotationfrom thecommittee’sappeal

malicious!

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