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iniquity and blindness to everything that makes life durable 

 for the average man. The \ery terror of her armed Huns 

 and pirates has instilled energy and distrust, if not down- 

 right hatred, even into the hearts of the phlegmatic 

 Chinese and the ease-loving Latin American. One and 

 all are against Germany and her ways ; one and all agree 

 that such a people must never again be entrusted with 

 the lives of the terribly reduced population that Germany 

 left in her colonies, nor must she be allowed again to own 

 territories outside of Europe to exploit and drain of its 

 riches in order to decimate the civilized nations, as she 

 annually decimated the black tribes that had the misfortune 

 to find themselves under Prussia's iron heel. 



*' What sort of peace does Germany still hope to 

 secure ? " are the opening words to the first of the articles 

 embodied in "The New German Empire "series in the 

 Round Table. " The question," the author goes on to 

 explain, " can be answered in a sentence : A peace which 

 will enable her to fulfil, in the next war, the aims she 

 has failed to fulfil in this.'' Under the Kaiser Germany 

 developed into a hungry Power. The object of the Em- 

 peror — and therefore of Germany — was to make her a 

 " world-power," dominant throughout the globe as others 

 had already made her in Central Europe. Already pre- 

 dominant in Europe as the first military Power, Germany 

 was to become an extra-European or a " World-Power. '" 

 Even the Socialists are reported to have joined in the cry, 

 for we are told, that in an article dated as recently as 

 January 17 last, one of the leading Socialists demanded 

 for Germany " an extensive Colonial territory which will 

 enable her to import from within her own sphere of 

 government the tropical products which cannot be grown 

 on her own soil."^ 



If it were not for the misery that the German occupation 

 of tropical centres has always entailed upon the subject 

 races under their control, whether coloured people abroad 

 or Serbs and Belgians at home, it would be interesting to 

 watch for how long she would continue to import the 

 tropical products she requires from her own territories. It 



' See the Kound Table, p. 259, where the question is fully and 

 carefully discussed as lo "What sort of a Colonial Empire did Germany 

 hope to attain?" Hope to attain, we would add, in the Latin American 

 continent, as well as in Africa and elsewhere. 



* Rohert Schmidt, in the leading Socialist monthly, Sozialistische 

 MfliialshefU, for January 17, 191 7. 



