THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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"All Morocco in the hands of Ger- 

 many; German cannon on the routes to 

 Egypt and India; German troops on the 

 Algerian frontier — this would be a goal 

 worthy of great sacrifices." — Maximil- 

 ian Harden, in Zukunft, July 29, 191 1. 



"the storm flag of the empire" 



"Now we know what the war is for. 

 It is to hoist the storm flag of the em- 

 pire on the narrow channel that opens 

 and locks the road into the ocean. . . . 

 We shall remain in the Belgian Nether- 

 lands, to which we shall add the thin strip 

 of coast up to the rear of Calais. . . . 

 From Calais to Antwerp, Flanders, Lim- 

 burg, Brabant, to behind the lines of the 

 French forts — Prussian. The southern 

 triangle with Alsace-Lorraine and Lux- 

 emburg. We need land for our indus- 

 tries, a road into the ocean. . . . Never 

 was there a war more just. It shall, it 

 must, it will conquer new provinces 

 for the majesty of the noble German 

 spirit." — Maximilian Harden, in Zu- 

 kunft, December, 1914. 



"If Central Europe comes to nothing, 

 then Ave .shall indeed have Central Africa. 

 Central Europe, on the other hand, with- 

 out Central Africa cannot be contem- 

 plated for a moment." — Dr. Paul Leut- 

 wein (son of a former Governor of 

 Southwest' Africa) , in E ur p ais c h e 

 Staats-und IVirtschafts-Zeitung. 



"Germany's requirements come to this : 

 it must stick to the position it has won 

 at the southwest entrance of the North 

 Sea (Antwerp) and must acquire the 

 Suez Canal." — Vice-Admiral Hermann 

 Kirch hofe, in same journal. 



"'the gift of a victorious war" 



"We must think of a way, if we are to 

 maintain ourselves as one among the 

 world nations. This way has already 

 been found in process of the war. It is 

 called Association ( Genossenschaft) — 

 political, national, military, economic As- 

 sociation. The original nucleus of the 

 Association is Central Europe I Germany 

 plus Austria-Hungary) ; Poland, too, be- 



longs to it by nature. The Near East is 

 brought in to supply us both with ( 1 ) 

 foodstuffs and (2) raw materials. A 

 connecting bridge is also needed between 

 Central Europe and the Near East. And 

 there it is — Bulgaria." — Paul Rohreacji 

 (of German Colonial Office), in Deutsche 

 Politik, May 19, 19 16. 



"A victorious war . . . would give 

 us the Belgian Congo, the French Congo, 

 and, if Portugal continues to translate 

 her hostile intentions toward us into ac- 

 tions, would also give us the Portuguese 

 colonies on the east and west coasts of 

 Africa. We should then have a colonial 

 empire of which our fathers, who used 

 to smile slyly at our first essays in coloni- 

 zation, could never have dreamt. But 

 the most important factor in this prob- 

 able partition of the African world is that 

 we should have thereby put an end to the 

 English attempts at dominion from the 

 Cape to Cairo. Between Egypt, which is 

 still English, and Anglo-Boer South Af- 

 rica would stretch the immense band of 

 our colonial possessions, extending from 

 the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Still 

 English, we say advisedly of northeast 

 and South Africa ; for who can tell what 

 may happen when the words of the poet 

 are realized : 'One day Germanism will be 

 the salvation of the world/" — Kreuszei- 

 tung des Ostheeres (official publication 

 issued by German Commander at Lodz 

 on the occasion of German Emperor's 

 birthday, January 2J, 1915). 



A MATTER OE GERMAN "HONOR" TO HOLD 

 ON TO BELGIUM 



"In our opinion, it is radically neces- 

 sary to improve our whole Western front 

 from Belfort to the coast. Part of the 

 North French Channel coast we must ac- 

 quire if possible. 



"On Belgium we must keep firm hold. 

 . . . On no point are the masses more 

 united, for without the slightest possible 

 doubt they consider it a matter of honor 

 to hold on to Belgium. 



"Our friends, Austria-Hungary and 

 Turkey, will open to us the Balkans and 

 Asia Minor, and thus we shall assure our- 

 selves of the Persian Gulf against the 

 pretensions of Russia and Great Britain. 



"We need liberty of the seas, which 



