The Socialists try to comfort us by telling us that Belgium has only been temporarily crushed and that the Germans will soon vacate their Belgian quarters. But Herr Arthur Dix, who knows very well what he wants, and who has the right and the power to want it, writes that what England fears most, and expressly so, is that _Germany should have an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean_. "For this very reason," he continues, "we must neither _let Belgium go out of our hands_, nor must we fail to make sure that the coast line from Ostende to the Somme shall not again fall into the hands of any state which may become a political vassal of England. We must see to it that in some form or other _German influence_ is securely established there." In the endless battles between Ostende and Dunkirk, sacred "strategy" is now carrying out this programme of the Berlin stock exchange, also. The Socialists tell us that the War between France and Germany is merely a brief prelude to a lasting alliance between those countries. But here, too, Herr Arthur Dix shows Germany’s cards. According to him, "there is but one answer: _to seek to destroy the English world trade, and to deal deadly blows at English national economy_." "The aim for the foreign policy of the German Empire for the next decades is clearly indicated," Professor Franz von Liszt announces. "’Protection against England,’ that must be our slogan" (_Ein mitteleuropäischer Staatenverband_, 1914, p. 24). "We must crush the most treacherous and malicious of our foes," cries a third. "We must break the tyranny which England exercises over the sea with base self-seeking and shameless contempt of justice and right." The War is directed not against Czarism, but primarily against England’s supremacy on the sea. "It may be said," Professor Schiehmann confesses, "that no success of ours has given us such joy as the defeat of the English at Maubeuge and St. Quentin on August 28." The German Social Democrats tell us that the chief object of the War is the "settlement with Russia." But plain, straightforward Herr Rudolf Theuden wants to give Galicia to Russia with North Persia thrown in. Then Russia "would have got enough to be satisfied for many decades to come. We may even make her our friend by it." "What ought the War to bring us?" asks Theuden, and then he answers: "_The chief payment must be made us by France_.... France must give us Belfort, that part of Lorraine which borders on the Moselle, and, in case of stubborn resistance, that part as well which borders on the Maas. If we make the Maas and the Moselle German boundaries, the French will some day perhaps wean themselves away from the idea of making the Rhine a French boundary."