Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-18
IS This A RIGHTEOUS
war?
BY REV. w. J. SUCKOW.
GERMANY'S PLAN OF WORLD EN-
PRE-,

briefly Parts |. and II. of the great
Pan-German Plan, the elevation OF
Prussia as the head Of united Ger
many and the dominance OF the Ger
man empire in Europe; and it was
pointed out that the first part of this
program was completed during the
Franco-German war, while the foun-
dations for the second part have been
laid during the present war.
Yet, stupendous as all this may be,
parts one and two of the Pan-German
plan are nothing more than the neces-
sary preliminaries to the third and fl
nal part, the establishment of Ger
man world-empire.
We have already referred to Tan
nenberg's book, published in 1911, in
which he outlined very explicitly the
conquests necessary to be made in the
coming war, in order to assure Ger
man supremacy in Europe. These
conquests, it will be remembered,
We're to consist of northern France,
Holland, Belgium, Russian Poland,
and the Baltic Provinces, besides the
establishment of German hegemony in
Austria-Hungary, Turkey. and the
Balkan states. This would complete
part II. of the Plan, and establish Ger
man imperialism impregnable through
out central Europe from the North
Sea to the Persian Gulf
But Tannenberg does more. He GER
tainly cannot be accused of undue
secretiveness. He not only urges the
necessity of great war for the &C
complishmests of these ends, but de-
fines the terms Of peace which a
victorious Germany must impose on
her vanquished foes with a view to
carrying out part III. of the great
world-program. With the most COM
mendable frankness he takes his
countrymen into his confidence and
tells them precisely what they must
insist on taking, in order that Germany
may come into her own. In order to
avoid all misunderstanding, he even
inserts map of the world, recon
structed in accordance with the Pan
German Plan, in which all the future
German possessions are duly marked
so that he who runs may read.
According to this map, when the
Pan-German Plan shall have been exc
cuted in its fulness, the world will ap,
: pear as follows:
, Germany in Europe will consist Of
the present Germany, with the addi
ton of northern France, Holland, Bel
GUM, Luxembourg, the German-speak
ing cantons of Switzerland, Russian
Poland, the Baltic Provinces, and the
three Russian provinces of Kovno, Vii
ma, and Grodno.
In addition to this Germany is tt
exercise political overlordship in Aus
tria- Hungary, the Balkan States, Tur
key, and Persia.
~ Then Germany is to receive bacl
her lost provinces in Africa, and adj
to them as much of the British ant
French possessions as seems desirable
:. to establish preponderant German
empire in that continent.
In Asia, Germany will take over tn
= Dutch colonies, retake her forme
Chinese possessions from Japan, AM
extend her power over Manchuria.
In south America she will establish
a protectorate over Argentina, Chill
" Uruguay, Paraguay, one third of Boil
via and one fifth of Brazil, thus cover
ing nearly the entire southern half o
- that continent.
This is the Pan-German Plan in full
according to Tannenberg. 1t may b
- said that he, being a private individu
al, could indulge in dreams of thi
kind without making the German gov
eminent responsible for his vagaries
= But that the German imperial govern
ment not only sanctioned this plar
but meant to carry it out to it's fulles
" extent, is proven beyond question b
the following facts.
/. Tannenberg's book was not uniqu
d publications; it simply has the meri
r of being the most explicit. But tons o
! similar literature, all advocating tn
worldwide extension of German pow
err, have been printed and dissemin
ated during the last twenty years
9 In addition, various societies have bee
. formed, such as the "Alldeutscher,
with some of the most influential PEG
= pie at their head, and with their ram
;. ifications reaching to all parts of tn
empire, for the purpose of familiar