Acquisitions Settlement and Land Purchase
While the commission planned to settle up to 40,000 families in Posen and West Prussia, it only managed to settle a total of 21,866 families until 1914, bringing the number of German colonists to 154,000.
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Famous quotes containing the words settlement, land and/or purchase:
“[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”
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“The land was our before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.”
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“O, let us have him, for his silver hairs
Will purchase us a good opinion,
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