Line 7.0.0 to put some Dutch courage into the quaking

Line 7.0.1 Austrians.

Line 7.0.2 "It goes without saying," Hoffmann

Line 7.0.3 continued, "that the creation of a separate

Line 7.0.4 Southern Russia with political independ-

Line 7.0.5 ence is a rank absurdity—an absolutely

Line 7.0.6 artificial and temporary thing; and this

Line 7.0.7 for the simple reason that you cannot have

Line 7.0.8 a country with its industries in one place

Line 7.0.9 and its coal districts a thousand miles away

Line 7.0.10 in another. The centre of whatever in-

Line 7.0.11 dustries Russia possesses is Moscow, and

Line 7.0.12 these industries are dependent upon the

Line 7.0.13 coal of the River Don basin. It is a truly

Line 7.0.14 Russian piece of unpracticality not to

Line 7.0.15 bring the industries to the coal, instead of

Line 7.0.16 trying to take the coal to the industries, as

Line 7.0.17 we Germans shall no doubt do if we ever