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Prussia which was always, up to the partition of Poland, an oversea colony   
of Germany's separated from the rest by a broad strip of Polish territory -  
revived as the so-called Corridor by Versailles. Thirdly, I have no doubt   
that Czechoslovakia will have to be restored intact up to her pre-Munich   
frontiers, with the possible exception of a purely German corner in the north-  
west which I think the Czechs themselves would be willing to cede.  For the   
rest the Sudeten Germans will either have to comein to Czechoslovakia again   
or be expelled. Beyond this I do not think that Germany can be broken up   
further.  On the other hand, I see no reason why, within Germany, Prussia   
should not be broken up. Prussia is an entirely artificial creation of war   
and diplomacy which gradually spread itself across the whole of Germany from  
the French frontier to Russia, and has imbued Germany with its peculiar,   
unpleasant though efficient, tradition. Actually there is no real relationship  
between the small free-holding Catholics of the Rhineland, the industrial   
area immediately to the east of it, the old kingdom of Hanover, and the   
Germanised Slav sandy plain of Brandenburg. Prussia once broken up, these   
various units would each recover its own submerged character and tradition   
y different Germany to that which the Hohenzollerns, Bismarc
 
                                                            
 
 
All this is, as I said before, just independent thinking aloud on my   
part. But I have always taken a very keen interest in European problems and   
the views I am expressing are not so much the products of the present   
situation am views which I formed at a very early date after the last war   
when confronted by what always seemed to me the certain failure of the League  
of Nations, a failure due to two main causes; one, that it attempted to embrace the whole world and not a particular manageable problem like Europe; the other, that it thought it could divorce the  
problem of political relationships from economic relationships, and, in   
respect of the latter, go back to the ideals and practice of the Nineteenth   
Century. On the contrary, I have long held that the natural course of world  
evolution is into larger world groups, both political and economic,based on   
mutual cooperation on loose and flexible lines. The British Commonwealth and  
                          the Pan-