The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-08-30

We are nknunk d&<EuAns, WI euF
shlsx. e~easse ts~rsnany. hsvfns sxssst
the world m hall. 10 aeS seeking "
aTvear the Asivss separately, sas
kas drivwa d wedge ssrsigh, thsSeusfa
me heart ~ EarapsA ard iate Asia
and h s~sktag 10 extead u ~ the Ter
dan gulf.
THIS 10 no sceadsutAi happening. our
TO the dewafsil IL Rasssa snd sAs saA
aea shifting In the faftunea us var
Gwrussny paann%d 70 xn deeAdes aIe.
she rsade mo sfost 10 keep the plans
s~erws. EAs told NJ oil aAout u She
had a rerusatteA for n&hing plans
ana sticking to tAesn. from ans sseers
ssteA 10 another: yet the versd rasd
no atteas,oa. II seemed too prvrst-
ssreus evcn fes C<rmany ~ attempt
Al icnS sss - isss = pamphlet.
~Psn. Germany ana Ceasr~i Earop*
Ahcrt iscsa.~ vas rahssshed In feFiin
and had vida ctreuiasiaa. II laid tha
whois Mistsaeurups riss bare ~ fsa'
lo~n.
~rclsad ana Little Russia THE king
dcm 10 he established n Rasssas ex
psnae) will agree to have no armies
Of their own. and win recvive In their
forsr~mses German and Austrian gHrrt
soma In rcisnA. ~ well ~ 10 Little
Russia. the postal ana telegraph serv
icca ~ well ~ the railways will he In
dermxn hsssSs.~ Z.
In 1914 Tsnn~nherr's hcck. "Gr~ases
0ermsny" vas Published. This ~ss
only three years before thu war, but
I, showed that the IDEA Ut . 0srmas
Miue,earcra had not been allowed 10
lanEaish. n ,says. y ..y.<.... -, ,......
the new Kingdom II Poland u
made up II the farmer Russian TOR
tion II the basin At The vlstuia. and at
0aliesa. ana forms . pArt.cf the n~w
Austria
so Hox TIN plan has grown since then
Russis's collapse dropped whase prov
in~~s ,nso the lap az the kaiser, and
ncw G~rmany plans In empire on .
scale which would Dwarf that n an
cient Rene. II In Ia embrace the estGs
inal Central Europe. Inhabited By
sama Ts.0on,noc Germans, make the
Black sea q German lake, and sxt*nd
clear to ths Persian ruff through the
vasssi states IT Bulgaria and Turkey
The German government started TO
pu, l,s scheme for b Mittsl~urcpa I'M
10 effect years ago when II began the
construction at the Be~iin'te.Raedsd
railway. Little Serbia stood In the
way. % Serbia was attacked and th%
world was plunged into war, In the
opposite corner IT Europs Belgium
was invaded and crushed. The weird
then thought that this was ouiy be-
cause E-,gium offered the easiest |
route h France: but study cf the Nit
tel<nrcca plan Of years arc shows shn1 |
Belgium was Included In the scheme
of conquest.
-Haw does sii this Affect American
one may ask. Germany wss \ 's''
eoner In the family Of grea. ns''"ns
Most al the uncivi,issd world had been |
pr~-emr,ed BY ether nations before
she arrived. Germany wasted cnl.
anies. To get them she vould have
to take them away from someone *'ss.
Africa and South America offered
the best fields ter German colcniEs'
ton. England poss~ss~d the best par
n Africs--&he PARTS In which the
whiss snsn might heps tn s~fsie and
thrive. England had . mighty ns~t.
and 4 Opposition Ia bold what ~
had. even though she did not sa:~ -
disposition 10 eight for mors.
There remained South America. n
was divided among weak ns;ionM n
was protected oaly ny the Monroe d"c
sYsr~. Tnis Msmre~ Aa~ssinA Vas 4
sacred thing ia Americans. hut. moi
heins harksd ur BY mighty armies and
n~~ss. was not sven a -srnr ~ paper
10 the Germans Can anyone Doubt.
should Germany succeed In welding
into q mighty emrtre the Ts.0nGo
Germans ard the Io,n0,fn0 iahsbi-
tants Of the vassaI and Conquered
mates Of hes Missessuropa. thst hss
merit st~p would b. toward the wes.'
The very fart tkss ~ hsh This EN-
rars wcaid pr~suprose the drf~at ~
EegssaA N that no British fleet would
,faaa between ~ ard Germany when
HE s.re esme for shs kasssr 10 s~nd
Ais leSinna crnss the Atlantic.
As 10 the East. ~ In the west"
% q motto which. n recent weeks. has
saen mucA board In Gsrrnsay. Asa.l
.oafsr~eee ~ shs national ishevaI par
b. held inMsrcA II this y~sr. the sos-
'o~fng amazingly frank dseiarstsda
~ made: l,
Oar policy has b~ea directed -
making tAe Eevesnmeaf snd Ras3ssfty
.uru AMY frcm IT, ssAchssas rsssse
1ea At July ID. tFsaes wtfAcst ~ 4
,<xaticss ssd in6emnitiss,. In that
~ hs~s succ<saeA fescs has Just ,
NO. MeA& - fhs HAse xnhrs coedi-
icea In Cat coosrsdiessns 10 IT, p,ns-
~ q July -. ana hAs reess~ed The
import and aasset q III DE bsry~sas .
erti~a. Il
h ether words On 0ssmany b scv ,
bod assexatioss sed indesp- I
Issies, sueA - Win ieavs Aer vfshcut
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