The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-04
GERMANY AIMED
TO CONTROL WORLD
Lust of Conquest Depicted
in Pamphlet Issued by the
American Government
GERMAN LEADERS
ARE FREELY QUOTED
Map Reveals 1877, 100000 People Now
Under Teuton Domination Wants
Peace Now When She Thinks She
Has Great Advantage.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Evidence
convicting Germany of lust for con
troll of the world is presented i'll an
exhaustive way in pamphlet of III
pages issued by TIE committee on pub
lie information as number of its
Red, White, and Blue series of pup-
LEGATIONS relating to the war. Con
quest and Kultur: Aims of the Ger
mans in Their Own Words is the title
of this work, which IS a compilation
mainly of utterances of German states
men and writers expressing the sentl-
mcnt of Deutschland uber Allies. "
Some of the extracts have not previous
ly been published in English. The
Kaiser is quoted frequently.
Attached to the pamphlet is q map IN
eolors bearing the legend "Whv Ger
many Wants Peace Now. 1t shows
the territory now occupied by Germany
and her allies, and outlines the Ger
man scheme of railroad extension SO as
to reach from Berlin to Bagdad and
through to the Persian Gulf, with
| branches along the east shore of tIe
! Red Sea TO Medina, Mecca, and Ho-
/ deida. near the Red Sea junction and
( with the Gulf of Alden. and to Cairo
and the Cape, while other lines give
, outlet at Triest, on the Atlantic, and
I Saloniki and Athens, on the Aegean,
/ to the Mediterranean. \ table on he
! map shows the population of the four
/ central powers, which. added TO the
f so, 500, 600 population Of the occupied
i territory Of Belgium, Northern France,
/ Poland, Lithuania, Courland, Serbia,
Montenegro, and Rumania. makes a
I total population under German control
/ Of 1s7,000,00o.
! To-day Germany controls $4,000
+ coo peoplc-that is why she wants
/ peace, reads the legend.
The pamphlet was compiled by Pro-
/ fossors Wallace Notestcin and Elmer
! +. Stoll Of the University Of Minnesota.
/ There is an explanatory forewood by
! Guy Stanton Ford, in which he says:
1.-THE German writer's whom the COM
! pliers have read have sought again and
( again to fan the flame of German ha-
tired by quoting English utterances OF
a similar character, three English ut
tcranccs in all, and only one of them
comparative 70 the passages in tAis col
lection. OF French iingoiStic utterances
/ German writer's have much TO say and
little TO quote. They talk with great
e. vaguencss of the ambitions Of Amer
lea. Ii is the ncnviablc distinction of
the small dvnastic, feudal, capitalistic,
aud intellectual groups in Germany, to
which these ideas owe their origin,
that they have made them nation wide,
SYSTEMATIC, and dominant.
Mr.. Ford goes TO some lelgth 10
pointing out the difference between the
ideals of the nations opposed to Ger
many, for which they struggled against
autocracies such as that prevailing to
day at Berlin, and the German scheme
Of dominating the world through tn,
supremacy of military clique. H.
tells how America and France and III,
Liberals Of England saw their ideal:
nodded into realities, aud notes thai
'this land has now become a goodly
one, as the South American republics
Italy, Belgium, Norway, Japan, China
and at last Russia, have caught the vi
sion. Continuing, Mr.. Ford says:
America knows what II Is defend
= ing. Does it as clearly understand wha
il is fighting against. Does it rcaliz
that other peoples have had impose,
upon them WAYS of thinking betweet
. which and our thought and the though
Of all forward-looking people there ca
: be no compromise! Does it know tina
,, the ideals of government which
\ struck down ia its farthcst past, bring
ing new liberties to all English speak
4 ing peoples-thc ideals which Franc
B banished with the Bourbons and tn
4 EonaI aries, and Italy drove out wit
s the Hapsburgs, ideals that crashed I
j earth in Russia but Yesterday wit
"a the fall Of the ROmanofs-does il kno
- that these ideals now dominate II
Tyutonic Powers and make them Il
fitting allies of the Turk in thong
aad purpose and method?
Three years Of war as conducted |