RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL, AND POLITICAL AUTONOMY OF THESE NATIONS. ON THE OTHER HAND GERMANY SEEMS THROUGHLY DETERMINED TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THE NUISANCE VALUE GENERATED BY ENGLAND AND FRANCE THROUGH THEIR MAKING POLITICAL AND MILITARY FACTS WITH COUNTRIES CONTIGUOUS TO GERMANY. THEN ANOTHER THING THAT GERMANY SEEMS DETERMINED ABOUT IS THE RETURN OF THE FORMER GERMAN COLONIES, BUT IT SEEMS THAT THEY WOULD WANT THESE RETURNED PRIMARILY FOR THEIR TRADING VALUE. AFTER THE COLONIES WERE TECHNICALLY TURNED BACK TO HER GERMANY WOULD BE WILLING TO GIVE WAY ON ACTUAL TAKING OVER SOME OF THESE TERRITORIES. THIS IS BECAUSE GERMANY REALIZES THAT CERTAIN POLITICAL EMBARASSMENTS WOULD ENSUE TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE IF THE COLONIES, AS DEFINED BY THEIR PRESENT BOUNDARIES, WERE ACTUALLY TAKEN OVER BY GERMANY. GERMANY MIGHT, FOR INSTANCE, BE WILLING TO TRADE THE WHOLE LOT OF HER FORMER COLONIES IN AFRICA FOR A NEW BLOCK OF TERRITORY IN CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA WHICH SHE COULD OPEN UP AND COLONIZE. IN OTHER WORDS SHE IS WILLING |