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The War Week by Week as Seen from New York
The War Week by Week as Seen from New York Author:Edward Sandford Martin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GERMAN INTELLIGENCE ARE the Germans intelligent? Of course some of them are. Individuals of every pattern are intelligent. But the Germans who have managed Ge... more »rmany for the last sixty years; who believe, as Bismarck did, in blood and iron; who have made of Germany such a wonderful machine, have made her strong and rich and masterful, and are so intensely bent on securing for her all that may be coming to her—what of them? Are they intelligent now? Everybody seems to feel thatGermany might have stopped the war that Austria had started if she had really wanted to. Not on old Franz Josef, but on William the Prussian, is laid the responsibility for this war. The belief is that the management of Germany was ready for more of the great blood- and-iron tonic, and let the war come, and probably even encouraged Austria to light the fuse. It looks so. "This time France must be finished so that she will make us no more trouble." That sentiment, frankly expressed by some of the German managers, is part of the formidable German motive, and along with it goes imperial, worldgobbling purposes that it needs a large map even to discuss. Was it intelligent of the German management to want to finish France? Between individual Frenchmen and individual Germans there is not much ill will. They can get on together perfectly if conditions are favorable. The chief trouble between France and Germany since '71 has been Alsace and Lorraine, captured by Bismarck and dragged away over the French border. France must be finished because Bismarck carried her beloved provinces off to his political harem, and she will go after them the first good chance. But nobody but the German management wants France to be"finished." England, Russia, Italy, these States, all the rest of us, prefer France in the unf...« less