The PanGerman Plot Unmasked: Berlin's formidable peace-trap of "the drawn war"Chéradame, André
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The PanGerman Plot Unmasked: Berlin's formidable peace-trap of "the drawn war"
Chéradame, André
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Pangermanism; World War, 1914-1918
6º. The Allies pretended that they made war on Germany because we
violated the neutrality of Belgium. This cant only serves as a cloak for
their own hypocritical cupidity. It is not for the Allies to reproach
Germany, seeing that they have themselves violated the neutrality of
Greece.
To the Allies, who can have no doubt as to the premeditated character
of the German aggression, these main arguments, on which the German
propaganda rests, of course, are nothing more nor less than “colossal”
lies, as absurd as they are cynical. Nevertheless we must bear in mind
that repeated indefatigably under every form to Germanophile neutrals in
Europe or to neutrals in America and Asia, who naturally have but vague
ideas on the complex affairs of Europe, they have enabled the Germans
gravely to prejudice the cause of the Allies through the moral, economic,
and military effects which they have produced. Hence the Allies are
deeply concerned in frustrating the world-wide German propaganda with
all possible speed. Now that great object, as we shall see later on,
the Allied Governments could, if they chose, very quickly accomplish by
pointing to the temporary success of the Pangerman plot.
Pangermanism and the dangers which it involves for the future are now
well enough known in some neutral countries, but the knowledge is still
somewhat vague, it still lacks that clear definition and that sense of
imminent peril which arouse strong convictions and prompt actions. But
if the Pangerman plan of 1911, in all its definiteness and extent, has
been ignored down to a very recent date in the Allied countries, which
nevertheless above all others are interested in knowing it, we can easily
understand that this nefarious plot for enslaving the whole world has
not yet been fully apprehended by neutral nations. But the temporary
accomplishment of the Pangerman plan in Europe, to the enormous extent
of nine-tenths, furnishes the Allies with demonstrative arguments of the
utmost cogency, and thus puts it in their power speedily to counteract
the effect of the German lies all over the world, and to prove the danger
which Pangermanism creates for all civilized States.
To achieve this object it would be enough if the Allied propaganda, which
has begun to be organized, were to be co-ordinated and founded on a small
number of positive arguments drawn from the results already attained
by Pangermanism; for these results would reveal to everybody Germany’s
long premeditation, and therefore her responsibility and the scheme of
world-wide domination which she pursues.
This Allied propaganda ought to be firmly established by the practical
and indisputable proof afforded by the geographical superposition of the
1911 plan on the territories actually taken possession of by Germany in
the course of the war; thus compared, it will be seen that the plan and
its execution tally almost exactly.
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