GERMANY'S DREAM OF WORLD DOMINATION 



By the Editor 



PALTRY indeed seem the domin- 

 ions of all the tyrants of the past, 

 who attempted to "wade through 

 slaughter" to the throne of world empire, 

 compared with the vaulting ambition of 

 the Hohenzollerns for Prussianizing the 

 earth, as seriously proposed by states- 

 men, diplomats, and military experts of 

 Germany during the last few years. 



Our talented Secretary of State, Mr. 

 Robert Lansing, in the preceding article 

 has revealed the mental attitude of auto- 

 cratic Prussia toward the remainder of 

 the world. Supplementary to that reve- 

 lation, it is worth while to recall some of 

 the concrete utterances of Pan-Germans 

 concerning their specific aspirations. 



Ridiculous and grotesque would be the 

 claims of these apostles of Germany- 

 Over-All were it not for the fact that 

 such extravagant preachments to the 

 German people have brought about a de- 

 bauch of blood, rapine, and destruction 

 the like of which has never before 

 afflicted mankind. 



The accompanying map of the world 

 tells the story of Germany's all-grasping 

 aims. The areas in black are her own 

 and those lands of her neighbors which 

 she covets. 



At the time that Germany plunged the 

 world into war four years ago, the area 

 of her empire in Europe was 208,780 

 square miles — larger than that of any 

 other nation in continental Europe save 

 her vassal, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. 

 She had a population at home of nearly 

 70,000,000, while her colonial empire, ex- 

 ceeding a million square miles, had an 

 additional population of more than 14,- 

 000,000. 



But she was not content. These pos- 

 sessions must be but the core of the great 

 sphere of dominions which she would ac- 

 cumulate in a rolling tide of blood con- 

 quest ! 



Germany's dream 



Germany claims as her right (through 

 her spokesmen, the leading citizens of the 

 empire) , the following : 



All of Europe save Portugal, Spain, 

 the uninvaded portion of France, the 

 British Isles, and the as yet unconquered 

 portions of Russia. In brief, she wants 

 in Europe 1,196,000 square miles of the 

 total continental area of 3,872,000 square 

 miles and 270,000,000 of the 464,000,000 

 inhabitants. 



All of South America save the two 

 inconsequential colonies of British and 

 French Guiana. Her aspirations in this 

 sphere include more than 7,400,000 

 square miles of the total continental area 

 of 7,570,000 square miles and 55,421,200 

 of the total population of 55,779,000. 



In Africa her modest claims embrace 

 6,840,000 square miles of the total area 

 of 11,622,000 square miles, leaving less 

 than 5,000,000 square miles, largely des- 

 ert, for her sister nations. The territory 

 which Germany claims in this part of the 

 world maintains a population of 85,000,- 

 000 inhabitants, compared with only 

 57,000,000 for the remainder of the conti- 

 nent. 



Considering the extent of the conti- 

 nent, Germany's Asian aspirations would 

 seem amazingly conservative for her, 

 were it not that much of the land to which 

 she waives claim is, like that in Africa, 

 an unproductive waste. With Russian 

 Turkestan, India, China, vassal Turkey, 

 and the Mohammedan realms of Persia 

 and Afghanistan — the areas which she 

 wants — the Central Empire would have 

 5,662,000 square miles of this continent, 

 sustaining a population of approximately 

 775,000,000. And there should be added to 

 these figures the Dutch East Indies, Ger- 

 many's by right of the might of larger 

 nations over smaller neighbors — 735,000 

 square miles and 48,000,000 people. 



All of Australia, with an area of 

 2,974,581 square miles and a population 

 of nearly 5,000,000. Teuton expecta- 

 tions in this continent have been revealed 

 very recently in the unblushing confes- 

 sions of Herr Thysson, who is quoted 

 elsewhere in this article. 



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