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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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country's expansion told the world that Germany Wo ld take under her protection the republics of Argentina, Chil I*** guay and Paraguay, and other parts of South AmericaXh^ ere Germans had settled predominantly. Still again, in 1915, Professor Hettner of Heidelberg told his countrymen that in treating with America German publi opinion was to some extent lacking in courage. "Just becaus the United States has set up the Monroe doctrine to exclude Europeans from America it does not follow that we should acquiesce in that doctrine/' Throwing a flood of light on the opinions which I have quoted concerning the attitude of Germany towards the United States, is the story told by Major N. A. Bailey and published in the New York Tribune, August 11, 1915. It is as follows: "At the close of the Spanish-American War, I was returning on the Santee—I think it was—from Santiago, Cuba, to Montauk Point On board there was a military attache fr Germany, Count von Goetzen, a personal friend of the Kaiser. Apropos of a discussion between Count von Goetzen and myself on the friction between Admiral Dewey and the German Admiral at Manila, von Goetzen said to me: 'About 15 years from now my country will start her great war. She will b« in Paris in about two months after the commencement of hostilities. Her move on Paris will be but a step to her real object the crushing of England. Everything will move like clockwork. We will be prepared and others will not be prepared. I speak of this because of the connection which it will have with your own country. Some months after we finish our work in Europe we will take New York and probably Washington and hold them for some time. We will put your country in its place with reference to Germany. We do not purto take any of your territory, but we do intend to take a billion or more dollars from New York and other places. Th* Monroe doctrine will be taken charge of by us, as we wuj then have put you in your place, and we will take charge o South America, as far as we want t o . ' " Finally, we have to bear in mind the remark of the gentleman who has several times proclaimed that he took his stand • :t besi° bass* this the 1 to tl two Gen Dev ish ChJ den saic sta An bil 0C( Sa 4
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