One may sum up and say that Germany and Austria expect from victory a Europe in which all that is German-speaking and already within their moral influence shall support their power over the world, that power not coming in the shape of annexations, save at one or two selected points. Once on the North Sea, and once having broken British maritime supremacy, Central Europe would leave the future to do its work, content in the East with dominating the Balkans and reaching the Ægean Sea, and with permanently holding back the further advance of Russia. [Illustration: MAP IV. EUROPE REMODELLED BY THE ALLIES 1. To retain their present boundaries: Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Norway, Sweden. 2. The Germanic Peoples: with the Catholic South leaning upon Vienna and a large autonomy to individual States. 3. France: with Alsace-Lorraine. 4. Poland: Quasi-independent, but a holding of Russia. 5. Czechs: Quasi-independent, but probably still a holding of Vienna. 6. Ruthenians (a minor Slavonic group): either annexed to Russia, or closely dependent on her. 7. An independent Magyar State. 8. An independent Catholic Southern Slav or Croat State, probably a holding of Vienna. 9. An orthodox Southern Slav State, Serbia, with access to Adriatic, but not holding Bulgarian territory. 10. Roumania, enlarged by her Transylvanian population. 11. Bulgaria.] If this is the German programme, what is that of the Allies? Primarily, it is the maintenance of not only liberties, but powers already acquired. In the economic sphere it is, of course, the maintenance of those international contracts upon which the wealth of England and of France depends. It is the maintenance of English power at sea, the re-establishment of a united France by land, the recovery of Belgium, and the guaranteeing of Holland in her neutrality, whether she wills it or no. But over and beyond this there is the problem of reconstruction, and here you have two clear principles: (1) It is to the advantage of the Allies to recognize everywhere, as much as possible, the realities of nationality. (2) It is a matter of life and death to the Allies to prevent the re-establishment of Prussian power, with its ideal of domination over others. To some extent these two policies agree, but not entirely. To erect a larger Serbia, to free the Croats and the Slovenes, or perhaps to take from their territory the ports necessary to Serbia on the Adriatic, giving Serbia also the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina; meanwhile, to let Bulgaria occupy the purely Bulgarian districts which Serbia now has, to re-erect a united Poland, to give Roumania her nationals beyond the Carpathians at the expense of Hungary; to make Hungary as far as possible independent of Vienna in administration, and in particular in military affairs--all that is part of universal policy which everyone expects. But what of Germany from within?