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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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of the people" I Still another tells u s : "It is theref re the duty of every one who loves languages to see that the f°ture language spoken in America shall be German." In 1903 Vollert wrote: "From all this it appears that the Monroe doctrine cannot be justified And so it remains only what we Europeans almost universally consider it, an impertinence." So distinguished an authority as the economist Schmoller wrote some years a g o : " W e most desire that at any cost a German country containing some 20 or 30 million Germans may grow up in the coming century in Brazil Unless our connection with Brazil is always secured by ships of war, and unless Germany is able to exercise pressure there >9 our development is threatened. Another professor of political economy (Schulze-Gaevera nite) wrote in 1898: condemned an the more emphatically must she defend her interests in Central and South America where she today occupies an authoritative position For this purpose we need a fleet capable not only of coping with the miserable forces of South American states but powerful enough if the need should arise to cause Americans to think twice before making any attempt to apply Monroe doctrine in South America. Still again, the Germany shall take possession of a harbor in Venezuela e doing so, however, this writer tells his fellow-countrywhether 99 quiesce in the American order of "hands off in South America In 1904 Friedrich Lange asserted that all the republics of South America would accept the advice of the German Government and listen to reason, either voluntarily or under coercion, two years later another must est fortress of the Germanic races. This is one of the writers who advocated the sending of people of non-Germanic blood now living in South America to Africa so as to have "a free South America for those of Germanic blood." This was twelve years ago. At about the same time another aspirant for his 29 rac ter
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