The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15
GERMANY'S WAR PLANS WERE TO
 CONQUER WORLD
America Included In Domi- nation Program of
 Teutons. :,

fBy W. H. Gardiner, Member Board of Trustees, American Defense Society,". et z
 Copyright. 1917, by American. De-
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 Statesmen and other students of in- ternational politics for the past fif- teen or snore years have been. watch. ing the evolution of Germany,sg plans N to- conquer actual World Dominion.
 These plans are so amazingly, ambi- tious and are founded on such an ut- terly cynical and ruthless disregard of the rights and liberties of all non Germans that for ten, or<twelve years those men who first caught their sim isterr trend were discredited Then, as the German plan of political and economic strategy developed step by step with her military conduct of the present war, it became generally rec ognized that in fact she is trying ac- tuafly to make real the Pan-German plan; and, failing that, to lay the solid foundation for it's future execution by first building an unassailab1e Empire from the Baltic to the Arabian Sea.
 For years many astute and experi- @riced statesmen dismissed this mat ter as preposterous: only to see it take material form and threaten. to over whelm them and their nations. F
 Likewise, those who have not for many years made a study of interna- tional politics or who have not read many of the books recently written on the politics and economics which caused the present war may be in- clined to- dismiss these Pan- German plans as impracticable and absurd.
 M The Prussian War Plan.
 At the close of 1915, Prussia was everywhere victorious and controlled about 100000 enthusIas assieally subservient allies in Austria Hungary the@ Balkans and Turkey, which lat ter held the religious leadership of the fanatical Mohammedan world. ;
 At Verdun, Prussia intended to break through the French, line, and swiftly overwhelm France. This done she expected that Russia would go out of the war. possibly by an imper- iaI treaty treasonable to the Russian people.
 After disposing of France and Rus sia. Prussia planned to concentrate on the annihilation ofe Great Britain's armies. which she expected would be rushed to the rescue of France.
 Thus crushed, France and Great Britain were to lose all standing in the eyes of their millions of Moham- medan dependents. throughout Africa and Asia
 The Question
 Is not all this on land and sea as important to America as to Great Bri- tain and France? If America had not joined in the war and if Germany had madea separate peace with Russia and then crushed France and Great Britain. But America woulC then have stodd alone against Prussian auto cracy which controlled all but one of the ocean. trade routes of the world
 How preposterous this seems to Anericansi And yet it is the cold bloodsd and hard headed plan and aim of the. .Prussian autocrats-it is merely Deutschland uber Alles"- made real as the result merely o1 crushing France and Great Britain before America can5xhelp them suf- hcientIy to. turn back the 4compaign for World Dominion Cor DowslfalL, which Prussia started in 1914.4 It is the plan Germany may yet be hoping to make real if she can soon get a sep arate peace with Russia and then one after the other, crush France and Great Britain before America can ef- fective1y support them.s
 This is the more important part of tho Pan-German War plan, for the realization of which the, pro-Germans afl over the world have been working with the blind assistaf1ca of the Paci- fists, who have tried to hold back the shields and swords of their countries de&ensively opposed to the Prussian agfession for real World Dominion tfS aim of all the years of training .o1 alB Germany to the highest "efficien- cygs
 or Americas Answer
 We now know that Prussia started thfS war in order to conquer World Dominion for herself; we know in what barbarous ruthless and loathe- some way Prussia makes war; and that France, Great Britain and their Allies have stood the brunt Of it for