The Tomahawk., 1917-06-21
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natural tools and instruments of dom
nation.
Their purpose has long been avoW-
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 we're 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
sedition and rebellion in India and
Egypt, setting their fires in Persia.
"The demands made by Austria on
Serbia were mere single step in
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 a 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 its
heart at Berlin. 1t could have had
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-the proud states Of Be-
hernia and Hungary, the stout little
commonwealth 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 d.
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
common power only by sheer cOmpul-
sion and await the day of revolution.
But the German military statesmen
had reckoned with all that ard 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 at
Berlins dictation ever since the war
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
er. Serbia is at it's mercy, should it's
hands be but for moment freed.
Bulgaria has consented to its 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 no
choice but to take their orders from
Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian
gulf the net is spread.
'It is not easy to understand the
manifested from Berlin ever since the
snare was set and sprung. Peace,
peace, peace, has been the talk of her
foreign office for a year and more,
not peace on her own initiative, but
en- the initiative of the nations over
which she now deems herself to hold
advantage.
"A little of the talk has been pub
lished, but most of it has been private.
Through all sorts of channels it has
come to me, and in all sorts Of gufses,
but never with the terms disclosed
which the German government would
be willing to accept. That government
has other valuable pawns in it's hands
besides those l have mentioned. 1t
still holds a valuable part of France,
though with slowly relaxing grasp,
and practically the whole of Belgium.
It's armies press close on Russia and
overrun Poland at their will.
Masters Dare Not Turn Back.
cit cannot go further, it, dare not go
back. 1t wishes to close its bargain
before it is too late and it has little
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