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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1920 Excerpt: ... grand duchi de Luxembourg (Paris, 1918). See also E. Bourgeois, La frontihrc orientate du royaume de Belgique, in Travaux du Comiti eTEtudes, ii. For Luxemburg in general, see Miss Ruth Putnam, Luxemburg and her Neighbors, with bibliography (second edition, New York, 1920). The question of the Scheldt is summarized by A. Rotsaert, L'Escaut depuis le traiti de Munster (Brussels and Paris, 1918); numerous documents in Guillaume, L'Escaut dermis 1830 (Brussels, 1903). For a Dutch view, see Den Beer Poortugael, La neutralitt sur l'Escaut (The Hague, 1911). For this question at Paris, cf. Cammaerts and Geyl in The New Europe, July 31 and August 14, 1919. On Belgian neutrality and the treaties of 1839, see F. L. Warrin, Jr., The Neutrality of Belgium (Washington, 1918). The history of Belgium's frontiers can be traced in the following historical atlases: L. van der Essen, Atlas de geographic historique de la Belgique (Brussels and Paris, 1919-), notably Map 10 (1786) by F. L. Ganshof; Geschiedkundige Atlas van Nederland (The Hague, 1912); Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinprooinz (Bonn, 1898-), especially the maps of 1789. Ill ALSACE-LORRAINE The fate of Alsace-Lorraine was, in general, a problem of the war rather than of the Peace Conference. Nothing had done more, in President Wilson's phrase, "to unsettle the peace of the world for nearly fifty years"; nothing was more earnestly discussed throughout the World War; nothing was settled more simply and quickly once the war was over. The completeness of the Allied victory and the immediate evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine required by the terms of the armistice left no doubt of the return of the lost provinces to France. The Peace Conference had only to determine certain necessary details. "The territories which were ced...

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