Germany has again illustrated her insolently preposterous claim to rank
as the protector of the rights of small nations in the case of Livonia and Esthonia, These Baltic Provinces were expressly left within the territory of Russia by her Peace Treaty with Germany. Now the " United National Council of the Baltic Provinces " has asked for union with the German Empire. That is to say, Germans and pro-Germans in the two Provinces have been organized into a body, which Vorwarle, in a belated protest, cannot regard as repre- sentative of the majority of the inhabitants. This specially created Council bas put forward an utterly illegal request ; and the Kaiser, piously thanking God for another opportunity of land-grabbing, has promised that the request of the Council " for union with the German Empire, under my sceptre, will be benevolently enter- tained." We do not doubt that the " request " was granted even before it was made.
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