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was the real cause of war between Eng- 

 land and Germany. To obtain it we must 

 have Egypt." — From the Manifesto of 

 German Professors, October, 1914. 



"possession of northern France is 

 vital" 



"So far as regards France, the posses- 

 sion of the coastal districts bordering on 

 Belgium as far as the neighborhood of 

 the Somme must be regarded as a vital 

 matter for our future position at sea. 

 The 'hinterland,' which must be acquired 

 with them, must be so delimited that the 

 complete use of the canal ports which we 

 gain, both for industrial and strategic 

 purposes, must be secured. All further 

 acquisitions of French territory, apart 

 from the necessary annexation of the 

 mining district of Briey, must be deter- 

 mined purely according to military and 

 strategical considerations. After the ex- 

 periences of this war, it must be regarded 

 as a matter of course that we must not in 

 the future leave our frontiers open to 

 hostile invasion, as we should do if we 

 left to our opponents those fortified posi- 

 tions which threaten us, and in particular 

 Verdun and Belfort and the part of the 

 western slopes of the Vosges which lies 

 between them. With the acquisition of 

 the line of the Meuse and the French 

 coast to which the canals lead and the 

 mining districts of Briey, which have 

 been mentioned, the possession of the 

 canal districts in the Department of the 

 Nord and the Pas de Calais is necessarily 

 included. 



"The necessity of strengthening the 

 agricultural basis of our nation requires 

 a considerable extension of the Imperial 

 and Prussian frontiers in the East by an- 

 nexation of at least parts of the Baltic 

 provinces and of those territories which 

 lie to the south of it. 



"The reconstruction of East Prussia 

 requires the better security of its fron- 

 tiers by placing in front of them consid- 

 erable districts, and also West Prussia, 

 Posen, and Silesia must not remain fron- 

 tier marches exposed to danger as they 

 are now. 



"The security of the German Empire 

 imperatively requires the possession of 

 the whole adjoining territory of Luxem- 

 burg and Lorraine, including the fortifi- 



cations of Longwy." — From the Mani- 

 festo of Six Industrial Associations, 

 May, 1915. 



conquest of india and china with 

 turkey's aid 



^ "With the help of Turkey, India and 

 China may be conquered. Having con- 

 quered these, Germany should civilize and 

 Germanize the world, and the German 

 language would become the world lan- 

 guage." — Theodor Springman, Deutsch- 

 land und der Orient, 191 5. 



"In a hundred years the American 

 people will be conquered by the victorious 

 German spirit, so that it will present an 

 enormous German Empire. Whoever 

 does not believe this lacks confidence in 

 the strength of the German spirit." — 

 Robert Thiem, Alldeutsche Blatter, 

 1902. 



"At the present: moment the center of 

 German intellectual activity is in Ger- 

 many; in the remote future it will be in 

 America. . . . Germans only need to 

 grasp the situation and the future is 

 theirs. Let them show that they mean to 

 maintain Deutschtum, and then emigra- 

 tion may be directed to America with 

 impunity." — Hubbe-Schleiden, in All- 

 deutsche Blatter, 1903. 



"Not only North America, but the 

 whole of America must become a bul- 

 wark of Germanic Kultur, perhaps the 

 strongest fortress of the Germanic races. 

 That is every one's hope who has freed 

 himself from his own local European 

 pride and who places the race feeling 

 above his love for home. Also South 

 America must and can easily become a 

 habitation for German or Germanoid 

 races !" — Klaus Wagner, Kricg, 1906. 



James W. Gerard, former United! 

 States Ambassador to Germany, in his 

 account of his experiences at the Imperial 

 Court, declares: "An official (German) 

 declared (in 191 5) that they had tried to 

 get England to interfere, together with 

 them, in Mexico, and Germans 'Gott 

 strafe' the Monroe Doctrine in their daily 

 prayers of hate. Every night fifty million 

 Germans cry themselves to sleep because 

 all Mexico has not risen against us." 



