1900 December 26th, Viator (pseudonym?), “The Polish Danger” (Letter to the Editor) in The Times, № 36,342 (Thursday 3rd January 1901), page 5/6:
Having in the first instance seized what is now its own part of Poland for purely military considerations, holding, as its apologists state, that it could not allow this great wedge of country extending almost to its own capital to remain in foreign hands, it has refused to learn wisdom from our treatment of the French Canadians and the Channel Islanders, from French treatment of the German Alsatians, even from its own very successful treatment, with kindness and forbearance, of a kindred Slav race, the Wends or Polabians, now almost entirely absorbed by the Germans, and has persisted in applying methods of “blood and iron” which as a matter of necessity, and as I have seen on the spot, have roused very strongly the race feeling of the conquered people.
