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<p>[Page 89]</p><p>oft-promised electoral reforms and take the wind out of the sails of the dissatisfied. Sensible men who insist on the original government goal of waging a purely defensive war will by nature be against annexations. What’s the point of having Belgians and other foreign nationals in the German empire since they will only cause us problems like in Posen and Alsace. Anybody who is not German, doesn’t think and feel like a German, should be thrown out of the inner homeland so that we can finally come to rest in this respect. Should any neighbouring region, be it the Baltic provinces or any other bordering state, want to join the German Empire, it should first have to prove during a probationary period that it is worthy of such honour, before it can assume the full rights of German nationality. I wish we would finally come to realise that foreignness is not something special and desirable, and that we Germans are at least</p>