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were the promises he made that, were 

 even half of what he promised to be ful- 

 filled, most of the commercial men in 

 Germany would become rich beyond the 

 dreams of avarice. 



"The Emperor was particularly enthu- 

 siastic over the coming German conquest 

 of India. 'India,' he said, 'is occupied 

 by the British. It is in a way governed 

 by the British, but it is by no means com- 

 pletely governed by them. We shall not 

 merely occupy India ; we shall conquer 

 it, and the vast revenues that the British 

 allow to be taken by Indian princes will, 

 after our conquest, flow in a golden 

 stream into the Fatherland. In all the 

 richest lands of the earth the German 

 flag will fly over every other flag.' " — 

 Herr August Thysson, Germany's 

 greatest steel manufacturer, in a pamph- 

 let wherein he confesses his complicity 

 in an Imperial plot formulated in 191 2 

 to plunge the world into war for Ger- 

 many's profit. 



tannenbErg's forecast 



"Holland, together with her royal 

 family, her European possessions, and 

 her colonies in South America, the Indian 

 Islands, and Australasia, must become 

 the ally of Germany. 



"It would form the nucleus of a colo- 

 nial world empire, if to East Africa, the 

 Cameroons, and southeast Africa we 

 could add Angola and the Congo. As a 

 connecting link with the Cameroons, the 

 French Congo might also be included — 

 7,500,000 square miles, in addition to our 

 2,265,560. This might justly be called a 

 world empire rich in the productions of 

 tropical flora; the Congo, one of the 

 largest rivers in the world — a colonial 

 possession comparable to England's five — 

 a beginning, by means of which the Ger- 

 man nation may finally attain the position 

 to which it is entitled by reason of its 

 importance in the Council of Nations. ^ 



"Germany must also have a share in 

 this worship of greatness, and will, under 

 the guise of economic exploitation and 

 protection, win back to 'Kultur' the Asi- 

 atic possessions of Turkey, both for her 

 own benefit and the good of the natives. 



"To Germany falls, in southeast Asia, 

 yet another possession, namely, the 



islands of the Indian Ocean, which, next 

 to British India, form the most valuable 

 colony in the world. 



"In order to maintain the balance of 

 power, Germany will be compelled to 

 bring under her sway the largest possible 

 stretch of land in the basins of the two 

 Chinese rivers — the Hwangho and the 

 Yangtsze-kiang. 



"In Central America we Germans have 

 let slip the opportunity for obtaining 

 Cuba. 



"I have touched upon these incidents 

 in South Africa merely to enforce the 

 point for our future guidance in South 

 America, that it will but be a blessing for 

 the peoples of the republics when they 

 pass from the effects of their Portuguese- 

 Spanish heritage under German rule. 



"Germany must lay hands upon Central 

 Africa, from the mouth of the Orange 

 River to Lake Chad, from the Cameroons 

 Mountains to the mouth of the Rovuma ; 

 she must seize Asia Minor and the Malay 

 Islands, in southeast Asia, and, lastly, the 

 southern half of South America. . . . 



"These regions (Asia Minor, Syria, 

 and Mesopotamia) might become for us 

 what Egypt is for England — that is to 

 say, not only an important outlet for the 

 products of our national industry, but 

 also a starting point from which we may 

 extend toward eastern Asia and Afri- 

 ca." — Tannenberg, in Gross Dentsch- 

 land. 



"PEANT OUR EOOT WHERE IT APPEARS 

 IMPORTANT*' 



"Should it be necessary to increase our 

 territory in order that the greater body 

 of the people should have room to de- 

 velop, then in that case we will take as 

 much land as would appear to be neces- 

 sary. We will also plant our foot where 

 it appears important to us on strategic 

 grounds to do so in order to maintain our 

 impregnable strength. Thus if it is of 

 any use to our position of strength in the 

 world, we will establish stations for our 

 fleet — for example, Dover, Malta, and 

 Suez." — Werner Sombart. 



"We must create a Central Europe, 

 which will guarantee the peace of the en- 

 tire continent from the moment when it 



