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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germa — John Shaqi

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"1683-1920": The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germa

Schrader, Frederick Franklin

Germans -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- Miscellanea

In order to estimate the full importance of the battle
    of Chalons we must keep steadily in mind who and what
    the Germans were and the important distinction between
    them and the numerous other races that assailed the Roman
    Empire; and it is to be understood that the Gothic and
    Scandinavian nations are included in the German race. Now,
    in two remarkable traits the Germans differed from the
    Sarmatic as well as from the Slavic nations, and indeed
    from all those other races to whom the Greeks and Romans
    gave the designation of barbarians. I allude to their
    personal freedom and regard for the rights of men; secondly
    to the respect paid by them to the female sex and the
    chastity for which the latter were celebrated among the
    people of the North. These were the foundations of that
    probity of character, self-respect and purity of manners
    which may be traced among the Germans and Goths even
    during pagan times, and which, when their sentiments were
    enlightened by Christianity, brought out those splendid
    traits of character which distinguish the age of chivalry
    and romance. (See Prichard’s “Researches Into the Physical
    History of Man.”) What the intermixture of the German stock
    with the classic, at the fall of the western empire, has
    done for mankind may be best felt, with Arnold (Arnold’s
    “Lectures on Modern History”) over how large a portion
    of the earth the influence of the German element is now
    extended.

    It affects more or less the whole west of Europe, from the
    head of the Gulf of Bothnia to the most southern promontory
    of Sicily, from the Oder and the Adriatic to the Hebrides
    and to Lisbon. It is true that the language spoken over a
    large portion of this space is not predominantly German;
    but even in France and Italy and Spain the influence of the
    Franks, Burgundians, Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Lombards,
    while it has colored even the language, has in blood
    and institutions left its mark legibly and indelibly.
    Germany, the low countries, Switzerland for the most part,
    Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and our own islands, are
    all in language, in blood and institutions, German most
    decidedly. But all South America is peopled with Spaniards
    and Portuguese; all North America and Australia with
    Englishmen. I say nothing of the prospects and influence of
    the German race in Africa and in India; it is enough to say
    that half of Europe and all of America and Australia are
    German, more or less completely, in race, in language, in
    institutions or in all.

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