Several countries, which I shall call satellites, I would even say weathercocks of the great powers, have spoken here of difference of origin, difference of language and of religion, which might militate in favor of the separation of this area from the country, for that is what they want.
The sentence can be put into:
有些我想称之为大国的卫星国，乃至大国的风向标国家，在这里曾大谈什么血统的不同、语言的不同和宗教的不同。在它们看来，这些不同或许有助于这个地区从该国分离出去，而这正是它们所求之不得的。