[[6]] "Et il faut bien remarquer, que la Guerre ne décide pas la question; la Victoire contraint seulement le vaincu à donner les mains au Traité qui termine le différend. C'est une erreur non moins absurde que funeste, de dire, que la Guerre doit décider les Controverses entre ceux qui, comme les Nations, ne reconnoissent point de Juge." Vattel, Book III, Section 38.
[[7]] In general, this is the theory of Article Ten of the Covenant.
[[8]] See the Genesis of the War, Asquith, pp. 97, 98.
[[9]] Article 15.
[[10]] President Wilson's so-called first draft of the Covenant contained a provision along these lines in Article III. See Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, Baker, Vol. III, p. 89.
[[11]] The statistics of language, etc., even when accurate, do not always forecast the popular wish. Upper Silesia is an instance of this fact. The statistics, as stated in the note of Clemenceau of June 16, 1919, showed 1,250,000 Poles and 650,000 Germans. The vote was 717,122 for Germany and 483,514 for Poland.
[[12]] The Convention between Germany and Poland relating to the régime of Upper Silesia is a document of some 300 pages.
[[13]] I am greatly indebted to Professor A. A. Young for some of my economic information; but he is in no way responsible for any of my conclusions.
[[14]] Of course this is an over-statement. Germany produces about one-tenth of her consumption of copper.
[[15]] Or a period due to war, such as 1919-1920.