Wednesday 7 October 2015

Extract from an Open letter from Edmund Swetenham MP to the times June 1890


With Chamberlain tying himself in knots trying not to offend the Germans he seems to have forgotten that the southern channel plains are in fact French sovereign territory.  German expansionary policy was one of the major contributing factors that lead us to the current state of affairs.

While I understand that France is in effect a wilderness, it is for us, the better off nations, to aid in the rebuilding of that once great nation.

We as a nation should also consider whether friendship with a nation that since 1872 has annexed or absorbed much of Eastern Europe. The only thing Germany lacks is a secure Atlantic port.

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