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KING CHRISTIAN X OF DENMARK GREETING HIS PEOPEE IN NORTHERN SCHLESWIG 



After forcible incorporation into the German State for more than half a century, the people of 

 northern Schleswig made their return to Denmark an occasion of great festivity. 



But the world entertains no delusions 

 as to the inflexible permanence of this 

 map. As Dr. Grosvenor observed two 

 years ago : 



"Neither a year nor a generation will 

 suffice to make it. None of the v now liv- 

 ing will behold it when made. The Peace 

 Conference will render its august decis- 

 ions, and its members will depart, but the 

 races remain on the spot, and on them 

 the making of the new Europe devolves. 



"Europe, though so old, is for the 

 greater part young and inexperienced in 

 self-government and political duty and 

 opportunity. The gait of more than one 

 newly enfranchised people will resemble 

 the uncertain walk of a just-awakened 

 child." 



THE MAP'S STORY OE GERMANY'S LOSSES 



Some of these new nations whose 

 names are now blazoned on the map of 

 Europe are not infants, but are sovereign 

 states which are experiencing a national 

 rebirth. Among these the most conspic- 

 uous example is Poland. Others, like 

 Jugo-Slavia, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Es- 



thonia, and Lithuania, are received for 

 the first time into the society of civilized 

 states. 



The map's story of Germany's terri- 

 torial losses needs but little textual elab- 

 oration. In addition to the loss of 5,600 

 square miles and nearly 2,000,000 inhab- 

 itants by the recession to France of the 

 provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, the 

 former empire of the Kaiser surrendered 

 control of the great Saar Valley coal field, 

 to compensate in part for the coal mines 

 of northern France destroyed or crippled 

 by the invaders. 



Fifteen years from the coming into 

 force of the Versailles Treaty, the inhab- 

 itants of the Saar Basin shall determine 

 by plebiscite whether they wish to remain 

 under the control, as at present, of a 

 Commission of the League of Nations, 

 become part of the French State, or re- 

 vert to Germany. 



Belgium has acquired full sovereignty 

 over the sections of the tiny area known 

 as Moresnet— Neutral Moresnet and 

 Prussian Moresnet — and of the Kreise, 

 or district, in which are the small towns 



