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our own industrial engineering, the Baltic 

 Force has been in history. 



Long before the dawn of historic times the 

 Baltic region was brewing human storms, which 

 swept outward in all directions, but mainly into 

 regions toward the sun. It is not blind acci- 

 dent which leads the modern Prussians to seize 

 the coal and iron fields of Belgium, the oilfields 

 of Galicia, or the copper mines of Serbia ; for, 

 not only are Baltic storms of overwhelming 

 strength, they are organized by strategists, led 

 by tacticians and concentrate attack upon 

 the most useful countries. 



Yet there is always a limitation to the 

 Baltic conquests. When the blonde conquer- 

 ors seized Greece or Italy, Spain or Asia Minor, 

 districts enclosed by sea and mountain bar- 

 riers they always held their own. When on 

 the other hand they conquered a country open 

 to attack such as Germany or Russia, Hungary 

 or the Balkans the next wave of the Tartar 

 Hordes has overwhelmed them by sheer 

 weight of numbers. So the early Balkan con- 

 quests on the Mediterranean were cut off from 

 the homeland by swarms of Asiatics whose 

 dark haired descendants, known as the Alpine 

 stock still hold large mountain regions from 

 the Black Sea to the Rhone. 



