Germans 9,950,000 Czechs 6,440,000 Poles 4,970,000 Ruthenians 3,520,000 Slovenes 1,260,000 Serbo-Croatians 790,000 Italians 770,000 Roumanians 280,000 ---------- Total 27,980,000 _Hungary._ Magyars 10,050,000 Roumanians 2,950,000 Serbo-Croatians 2,940,000 Germans 2,040,000 Slovaks 1,970,000 Ruthenians 480,000 ---------- Total 20,430,000 _Bosnia and Herzegovina._ Serbo-Croatians (orthodox, or Moslems of Serbian origin) 2,000,000 According to these figures there are 12 millions of Germans in the Hapsburg empire, but we shall see that not nearly all these 12 millions of Germans could be united to Germany. In fact: 1. As the table shows, rather more than two millions of Germans are in Hungary, where they are scattered in small groups among the other nationalities. They could not therefore be united to Germany. 2. Out of the 10 millions, roughly speaking, of Germans in Austria, those of Bohemia, to the north and north-west of the purely Czech zone, could not be united to Germany, because in that zone they are mixed up with numerous Czechs, and because the dotted line, which on the map (p. 68) separates Bohemia from the German empire of to-day, represents the historical and strategical boundaries of the kingdom of Bohemia. Now it would be impossible without these boundaries to assure the independence of the Czecho-Slovaks. Clearly we could not think of sacrificing nearly 9 millions of Czecho-Slovaks to 1 million of Germans in Bohemia, especially as these same Germans simply squatted in the country long ago by sheer violence and fraud.