And finally, the Prussianised nationalism of Germany has created new questions of nationality in Alsace-Lorraine and Schleswig.

All these problems together were as so much tinder ready to take fire directly the spark fell.
They were the cause of the "armed peace" of the past forty-three years; they are the cause of the war to-day.

The conflagration of 1914 is a proof of a profound dissatisfaction among civilised nations with the existing political structure of the Continent.

Alsatians, Poles, Czechs, Finns, Serbo-Croats, Roumanians, and the rest "still struggle for country and liberty; for a word inscribed upon a banner, proclaiming to the world that they also live, think, love, and labour for the benefit of all." The framework of society does not fit the facts of nationality, and so the framework has gone to pieces.

"The map of Europe has to be re-made.