The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-06-27
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ed. The statesmen of other nations,
to whom that purpose was incredible,
paid little attention.. regarded what
German professors expounded in their
classrooms and German writer's set
forth to the world as the goal of Ger
man policy, as rather the dreams of
minds detached from practical affairs,
as preposterous private conceptions of
German destiny, not as the actual
plans of responsible rulers.
German Preparations.
'But the rulers of Germany them
selves knew all the while what con-
crete plans, what we'll advanced in
trigues, lay back of what the profess
sors and the writer's were saying, and
were glad to go forward unmolested,
filling the thrones of Balkan states
with German princes, putting German
officers at the service of Turkey to
drill her armies and take interest with
her government, developing plans of
Egypt, setting their fires in Persia.
"The demands made by Austria on
Serbia were mere single step in a
plan which comprised Europe and
Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They
hoped those demands might not arouse
Europe, but they meant to press them
whether they did or not, for they
thought themselves ready for the final
issue Of arms.
Tells of Enemy War Aims.
''Their plan was to throw broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very center
of Europe and beyond the Mediter-
ranean into the heart of Asia, and Aus
tria-Hungary, indeed, was to become
part Of the central German empire,
absorbed and dominated by the same
forces and Influences that had it's
heart at Berlin. It could have had a
heart nowhere else.
1T rejected the idea of solidarity of
race entirely. The choice of peoples
played no part in it at ALL 1t contem-
plated binding together racial and poll
tical units which could be kept to-
gether only by force-Czechs, Mag
vars, Croats, Serbs, Rumanians, Turks,
Armenians- proud states Of 30.
hemia and Hungary, the stout little
commemorative Of the Balkans, the
indomitable Turks, the subtle peoples
of the east.
Did Not Wish to Be United.
"These peoples did not wish to be
united. They ardently desired to di
rect their own affairs, would be salts.
fed only by undisputed independence
They could be kept quiet only by the
presence or the constant threat of
armed men. They would live under a
common power only by sheer compul
sion and await the day of revolution
But the German military statesmen
had reckoned with all that and were
ready to deal with it in their own
way. And they have actually carried
the greater part of that amazing plan
into execution. Look how things
stand.
Austria is at their mercy. It has
acted, not on it's own initiative or on
the choice of it's own people, but al
Berlin's dictation ever since the wal
began. Its people now desire peace
but cannot have it until leave is grant
ed from Berlin. The so-called Central
Powers are, in fact, but a single pow
err. Serbia is at it's mercy, should its
hands be but for a moment freed
Bulgaria has consented to it's will
| and Rumania is overrun.
Turks Serving Kaiser.
|'The Turkish armies, which Ger
! many trained, are serving Germany
certainly not themselves, and the guns
of German warships lying in the har
Dor Of Constantinople remind Turkish
statesmen every day that they have M
choice but to take their orders from
Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian
gulf the net is spread.
ut is not easy to understand thu
eagerness for peace that has beer
manifested from Berlin ever since tn,
snare was set and sprung Peace
peace, peace, has been the talk of he
foreign office for a year and more
not peace on her own initiative, blu
en- the initiative of the nations owe
which she now deems herself to hol,
advantage.
"A little of the talk has been pub
Hshed, but most Of it has been private
Through all sorts of channels it ha
come to me, and in all sorts of guises
but never with the terms DISCLOSE
which the German government woul
be willing to accept. That government
has other valuable pawns in it's hand
besides those I have mentioned. l
still holds a valuable part of France
though with slowly relaxing GRASP
and practically the whole of Belgium
Its armies press close on Russia an
overrun Poland at their will.
Masters Dare Not Turn Back.
1T cannot go further, it dare not g
back. 1t wishes to close it's bargai
before it is too late and it has littl
left to offer for the pound of flesh j
will demand.
''The military masters under who1
Germany is bleeding see clearly t
what point fate has brought them.