Excerpt from The American Review of Reviews: July, 1917 All, At a period in the war when the Appetitefor Allies were quite confident that Spo'ls they had beaten Germany and Austria, they entered into secret agreements among themselves as to the division Of the victors' spoils. Great Britain, it is under stood, was to keep about a million square miles Of Germany's colonies. Japan was to keep much that she had taken away from Germany in China and the Far East. Rus sia was to have Constantinople and a great deal of Asia Minor, and the Black Sea was to become a Russian lake. Italy was to ex tend her control all around the Adriatic, and was to make large gains of Turkish is lands and perhaps of mainland adjacent to Smyrna. France was to have alsace-lor raine and certain other compensations. There was to be a new Poland under Rus sian influence, extending to the Baltic. BO bemia and other parts of Austria were to be made independent. Rumania was to have Transylvania and other enlargements. Ser bia was to have Bosnia and a large part of Bulgaria's Macedonian territory, besides a part of northern Greece. Ewu if the Allies had tentatively agreed among themselves upon all these readjustments, it was obvious that no such program could be accomplished as a matter of negotiation, and that it could come into effect only as the result of over whelming victory enabling the conqueror to impose his extreme terms without meicy or consideration. Certainly the peopl'e of the United States have not gone to war against Germany in order to protect Germany and her allies from any of the consequences of a merited defeat. But it is always well to defeat your enemy before you say too much about your plans for appropriating and di viding up his possessions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.