The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-16
THE PROPHETIC GERMAN MAP.
No Reason for Surprise At Its Sugges
tiona and Indication.

To THE EDITOR OF TEE suN-Sir: The
prophetic map Of the German Empire In
1850 In to-day's SuS is well calculated to
arouse much interest not only In Europe.
but everywhere else. as the great commercial
and industrial concentration implied In 1t
would be a revolutionizng factor in the
worlds politics. But the map does not tell
the whole Of the story Of Pan-German am
bition by any means 1t IL only part OF 1t
that is revealed. There is another that 10
kept back, very probably from motives OF
expediency.
am writing from knowledge acquired -
far back as 1875. at the time of the outbreak
Of the Turco-Servian war. OF the existence at
the Foreign ONCE In Berlin. besides copies
In certain Of the German embassies In Europe.
of q Pan-German Empire map that took In
not only the portions Of Europe now outslde
Of Germany, but all the Balkan countries.
including Greece and Rumania. down to the
Black Sea, the Bosporus and Dardsnellss
and the Egean. The western land frontier
In Continental Europe ran about along the
limo depicted in the map In this mornings
Sun, but the sea frontier embraced the whole
coast line around the territories have men
toned. from Trieste to the mouth of the
Dnlester. On tho northwest were included
the British Islands.
This map naturally was only theoretical.
and was made to bs kept before the eyes of
Of their Government. to be advanced or held
In allegiance as the circumstances of the
time might determine. The map printed In
TIE Sun shows only that part Of the DOM.
plete map which IL Ia considered expedient
to make public st present. To carry the
southern and eastern frontiers Of the greater
German Empire to the furthest extremes I
have described would be offensive to Russia
and a cause Of alarm to all the smaller Balkan
States, and even to the Kaiser's friend and
ally Abdul Hamid. To have included Great
Britain in the sphere Of Pan-German interest
would have been to embtter the already
sufficiently acrimonious controversy now
going on between the press Of the two coun-
tries. and reflected more or less emphatIcally
in the relations between the two Govern
ments. As matter Of policy they have been
excluded, but not lost sight Of.
But there IL no reaion why there should
be an outburst Of surprise over this Pan
German map. Every action and stroke Of
policy Of the German Government since the
unity Of the empire during the Franco-Ger-
man War and Of the Prusslan Government
before it has pointed in the most unmistakable
manner to the results the map Is intended to
foreshadow. The Danish campaign of 1854.
the Austrian campaign of 1866 and the war
with France In 1870 were all Incidents In q
general program. 80 were the nomina-
ton OF Hohenzollern to the throne Of Ru-
mania and the marriage Of tho Emperor
Williams sister to the Crown Prince Con-
stantins Of Greece.
Equally was it part Of the German pro-
gram not TO assist In building up In the
Balkans on o stable basis the minor States
that might prove obstacles to the progress
Of Austria to the Egean. toward which Bis
marck gave her the impulse after Sadowa,
and still further opened the way by the triple
agreement at Rastadt In 1874 and at the Berlin
Congress In 1878. Austria being tho advance
guard Of Germany in her extension into the
southeast Of Europe.
1t cannot be said on the whole that there
has been much concealment on the part OF
the German Government OF its objects, and
1t has only been tho precipitancy OF En-
peror william In grasping, on occasions he
thought favorable. at the fruit OF German
policy before II was ripe that has caused
alarm and attracted undesired attention to
its development
Tho two Powers with which Germany
must ultimately clash. should the policy
OF expansion TO the southeast DO carried to
its extreme limits. arc Russia and Great
Britain. and the only ally the Kaiser can
depend on IL the Sultan. whose tenure Of
power 10 not a. secure as II might be. All
the political conditions in> Europe are fast
driving to an iBsue which 10 by no means
clear. and II 10 therefore quite natural
tndV tho uiueToh0 rui0FS shoulu meet 70 put
affairs - far as they can In the way Of pacific
solutions rather than allow them to drift
into anarchy. With war or revolution 40 the
only alternatives. and In any case o complete
upssttlng Of the established order Of things.
In conclusion. would say In regard to the
map have described that all to tho west.
ward OF the greater Germany was attributed
to q strong Latin confederation. while TO the
east 1t was Slavonio. In other words. Europe
was divided territorially and sthnolo sicAlly
into Latin. TeutonIo and slavonio groups.