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About Danskeren. (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1919)
The Return of Slesvig (By N. IT. Debel.) When victory was finally achieved and the mighty robber-state was brought to the bar of international justice, it was to be expected that the reckoning would be both sweeping and thorough going. Millions of people have been liberated from the Prussian yoke. The disposition made in regard to Klesvig ought to give satisfaction to all Americans of Danish extraction. Many, it is true, will regret that all of Klesvig was not returned. But when we remember the vindictive hatred with which the renegades in the duchy have regarded everything Danish in the past, it is perhaps best that they be forced to remain with (Jer many a while longer to reap some of the fruits of their own megalomania. Perhaps then at some future time they may be permitted to re turn to their own proper fold. <)ur one regret is that the loyal Danes in South Slcsvig- and they seem to be numerous —that they can not now be united with their own people except by emigrating from the fair land they have guarded so long and faith fully. For those who still have the courage to remain on guard at Dannevirke there re mains the hope that the principle of self-de termination, for the first time applied to in ternational settlements in 1919, will prosper and become the vital guiding principle in in ternational relations in the future. It is not the purpose of this article to present a comprehensive and detailed study of the whole Slesvig question. That would require a book. It is my hope, however, that
