"Modern Europe cannot allow a people to be seized like a herd of cattle. . . ." Protest of Alsace-Lorraine against Annexation to Germany, delivered in the National Assembly at Bordeaux, February 17, 1871. "Citizens, possessed of souls and of intelligence, are not merchandise to be traded and therefore it is not lawful to make them the subject of a contract." Protest of Alsace-Lorraine against Annexation to Germany, delivered in the Reichstag in Berlin, February 18, 1874. "No right exists anywhere to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property." Address of President Wilson to the Senate of the United States, January 22, 1917. -viii- |