Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-11-08
CHAPTER TX.

The Kaiser's Plan for World Dominion.
The history of modern Germany Is
perhaps, in itself sufficient indication
of the underlying plan Of the Teutol'
| war barons to control the whole o.
Europe and, eventually, the world. Th'
program has been slowly unfolding 1t
self since the time of Frederick tn"
| Great and the present generation j:
now witnessing what was intended II
| be the climax.
There can be no dc ubt that If Ger
many had succeeded in her efforts t.
gain control of the major part of Eu'
rope she would have soon looked
| toward the western hemisphere and
| the east.
This program is fairly indicated b!
| the course of events as history lay>
them bare, but have the actual wore
| of the kaiser to substantiate it.
At one of his visits to me shortly
| after the beginning of the war we were
discussing England's participation il
it.
"What hypocrites the English are?
| the kaiser exclaimed.
"They had always treated me ST.
we'll when I visited them l never be:
lieved they would have come into this
war. They always acted as if theE
liked me. Ny mother was English.
you know. I always thought thu
world was big enough for three of US
and we could keep it for ourselves
that Germany could control the CONT
nent of Europe, England, through he5
vast possessions and fleet, could con-
troll the Mediterranean and the far
east, and America could dominate the
western hemisphere"
How long it would have been before
Germany would have tried to WreSl
dominion from England can readily be
imagined, and with the whole of Eu-
rope and the far east under her thumb
America would undoubtedly have
proved too tempting a morsel for the
kaiser's or his descendants rapacious
nav to have resisted. He said that
he believed that the world was "blg
enough for three" he didn't say il
was too big for one.
What was really in his mind, how
ever, is indicated by passage in an
address he made some twenty-five
years ago, in which, as Rev. DR.. New
ell Dwight Hills has pointed out, he
used these words:
"From my childhood have been IN
der the influence of five men-Alexan-
der, julius Caesar, Theodore II, Ma
poleon and Frederick the Great. These
five men dreamed their dream Of
world empire: they failed. am
dreaming my dream of world empire,
but l shall succeed"
The kaiser's plan to dominate Eu-
rope included the control of Turkey,
and he made every effort to strengthen
that country so that she might be a
valuable ally in the war to come.
When Italy took Tripoli from Tur-
key before the Balkan war I men,
toned to the kaiser how opportunity
Italy had acted, but the kaiser dis
missed my remark with an exclama-
ton of displeasure, realizing, OF
course, that Turkeys loss was IN
sense his own since he had planned to
make Turkey his vassal.
10 that end he had sent German Of
ficers to train the Turkish army and
had supplied them with guns and mu-
nitions. With an eye to the future,
too, he had constructed the great Bag
dad railway.
When the Balkan war broke out in
1912 the kaiser had great confidence
that the German-trained Turkish arm!
would acquit itself creditably and
that In the outcome Of that conflict his
European program would make cor i'd
cradle progress. He told me that he
had n map of the war area placed in
his motor and that with pegs he fol
lowed the fortunes of the fighting
armies while he was travelling.
The Turkish defeats were naturally
a great disappointment to him.
"These Montenegrins, Serbians and
Bulgarians are wonderful fighters" he
confessed to me, shortly after the war
began. They're out-of-door people
and they have the strength and STAN
ina which fighters require. If they