Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
STAND OF GERMANY
Country Does Not Want Mo-
rocco, Says Old Diplomat.
BRAZIL FAVORED COUNTRY
Kaiser's Government Would Like to
Have Colonies in South America.
PORTUGAL IN THE BALANCE
Troubles of Newest Republic Keep
Natives in Ferment. and Future
Is Uncertain.
BRAZIL FAVORED COUNTRY
PORTUGAL IN THE BALANCE

special Cahlegram to The Star.
BERLIN, September Cot is strange, y
said an old German diplomat, whose in
sight into the plans of the men who
mold the destinies of the German en-
plre is second to none that none of
you newspaper men ever learn to look
through the outer shell of things and
discover the kernel within but it is a
most fortunate thing for statesmen tha.
you don't Here all the papers of the
world have printed endless stories about
the Moroccan question. and though some
of them have been smart enough to
hint that this little affair was partly
brought up in order to unite the voters
| of Germany behind the government and
stem the tide of socialism at the coming
elections, not one seems to have dscov-
cred that Germany really cares nothing
for the soil in Africa, and that the plans
| of the government are to create a new
| Germany in the fatherland.
| THE territories of Kongo and Morocco
| are utterly unsuitable for German colo
nization. though rich in mineral wealth,
| which Germany however, can easily get
her share of without burdening herself
with the heavy expense of governing
| these vast Stretches of land, where the
rulers will have to waste money and
| blood fighting the natives for years TO
! come.
/ Germany wants colonies. must have
colonies to provide an outlet for her too
rapidly increasing population, but she
does not want them in Africa, and for
| once our statesmen have spoken in truth
when they said that we do not want an
inch of Moroccan soil. We want colonies,
but we want them in South America, in
spite of all official denials
TO say just where the German eagle
will swoOp down on the South American
continent is rather difficult at present
but probably 1 shall not be far out of
the way when / venture to say that it
Will be somewhere in Brazil. Scores of
thousands of German settlers are already
there cultivating the most fertile soil in
the world. You may travel for many
miles in Brazil and not have to speak
ANYTHING but German, and all these Ger
man settlers are as true German pa
triots as the day they left the mouth of
the Efbe on the Veser.
Waiting for Opportunity.
Some day an incident will happen over
there which will give the German govern
| ment a pretext for interfering, and then
1t will only be question of how much
land Germany chooses to take. The ma
tive people of Brazil. a race of mixed
Spanish, Indian and negro blood. are poor
fighters and will be able to make little
or no resistance to Germany.
Il know what you are going to saw
The Monroe doctrine, But nobody here
thinks that the United States will up
hold that somewhat shadOwy dictum in
defense of anything south of Panama
especially against a power as strong as
Germany. We think Americans too good
business men to do that. We expect the
United States to protest, strongly even,
but only In words, and then the matter
| will end with a compromise of some kind
whereby We take what we want and the
United States something nearer home
than Brazilian lands.
"Of course. such a thing is utterly
impossible as long as Germany is with
out navy to back up her demands,
and this is why we have been spending
money far beyond our means to build
up an immense navy and why we had
| to DO 1t before the opening of the
| Panama canal, an event which will
double the strength of the American
navy. Before that happens / venture
| to say Germany will have a large
colony in South America. and she will
| have got 1t, 1 hope and honestly be-
lieve, not only without fighting the
| United States. but even without ruin
ing the existing friendship between the
| two most thrifty and enterprising ma
tons in the eastern and western hemi-
| spheres.
England living up to her reputation
of being the most hypocritic nation in
| the world, may throw up her hands in
pretense of righteous Indignation, for
|
! than any other country. but she will
go no further. having already all she
| can do to hold her vast empire to-
| gether. Thus the peace of the world
| Will rest on more solid basis than
| ever, France holding Algiers Tunis
Morocco and French Kongo: Russia
Manchuria. and the United States rul-
ing the North American continent as
far south as Panama and with or with
out Canada as part of her dominions."
Portugals New Epoch.
| Portugal has entered into a new
epoch of history since the republic was
| nv N q