Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25 [PAGE 16]

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best. They recognized no rights on the part of the existi 8 population. The fact that Germany wanted land gave he" moral right to take it at the expense of the property and live of its present occupants, or of anybody else. "Let us," 8ay8 Karl Wagner, "let us bravely organize great forced migrations of the inferior peoples The inefficient must be hemmed in and at last driven into reserves where they have no room to grow and where, discouraged and rendered indifferent to the future by the spectacle of the superior energy of their conquerors, they may crawl slowly towards the peaceful death of weary and hopeless senility." But the dough must be leavened before it can be baked. Therefore Germans must be scattered over the world and wherever possible brought together into localities which will develop a German spirit and German point of view, and secure a dominating influence on the public opinion and politics of the country. Later on these groups will serve admi: the German flag! These, then, are the main outlines of the plan of the GerCan any the man understand this plan and fail to see that its attainment would strike at the roots of liberty, free government and democracy everywhere ? The insidious influence and power of multitude < ers on the ghty the main Dart of the autocratic empire. Sensitive to every touch, its body would react to throw there that absorb, and whose life it could destroy. There would be no safety for a freedom-loving people anywhere on the globe, because these tentacles of influence and power would be continually reaching out and constantly growing. No nation, not even our own, would have been able to stand up alone with any assurance of ultimate success against such a power. At any rate, ultimate success by us in such a struggle, when it came16