Autonomy would mean that efforts to suppress the Polish language, the
Polish national spirit, and the Polish traditions would be at an end.
Under a despotic government in Russia and under more despotic
governments still in Germany and Austria, the Polish race has existed
under the most crushing of burdens. Reunited and granted partial liberty
and the right to live under fair conditions, it would flourish and again
take its place as a great race.
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RUSSIA AGAINST GERMANY.
By Prince Eugene Troubetskoi, Ex-Member of the Imperial Cabinet, St.
Petersburg, Aug. 15.
Russia against Germany is an instance of real patriotism against the
curse of nationalism. Our people are athrill now, not from hate but from
an ardent desire to serve and protect. Our war cry does not result from
the ancient pagan conception of the self-sufficiency of the State, but
from the desire for the well-being of all men.
Our people are not filled by that fierce and implacable lust for power
which leads a nation into the gulf whose depths reach down to hell. With
us God is not conceived as merely a tribal deity, but the father of all.
Upon these things, upon this supernational impulse which has now set our
people on fire, we rely for victory, and in our victory we expect to see
a great step taken in the coming freedom of the world.
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