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Title: The peril of Prussianism
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Douglas Wilson, 1878-
Subjects: European war, 1914-1918 -- Causes Germany -- Civilization Germany -- Politics and government 1871-1918
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tion is dominated by Berlin.Eager for peace to-day, she dares not askfor it till the Kaiser has given the word.Said an Austrian army officer, who had 25 1 ^ 26 The Peril of Prussianism fought through the Galician campaign:**Our worst enemy is not Russia but thePrussian Government. If the war iswon by the Germans there will be noAustria/* To an even greater degree/Bulgaria and Turkey have become vassalsof the Hohenzollern state, taking theirorders direct from Berlin. Germantroops in Constantinople and Germanwarships in the harbor hold the govern-ment of the Turk in abject servitude.The control of two thirds of Roimianiahas passed into German hands, the deathof Germanys hand-picked puppet kinghaving made forcible conquest necessary.Serbia has been destroyed and the mainartery of the new Empire, the greatBerlin to Bagdad route, is completelyimder German control to within a fewmiles of the Orient city. William II.began this war as the ruler of 6S millionsouls. To-day he is the supreme war
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A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing 27 lord of an empire of 176 millions, stra-tegically located in the center of Eiirope.As Cheradame truly says: This is thebrutal, overwhelming fact which Ameri-cans must face if they wish to learn thesole solution of the war which will assureto them, as well as to the rest of theworld, a durable peace. Realizing the vast extent of her suc-cess, and fearful that further warfaremay lead to its imdoing, Germany isto-day frantically working for peace onvery moderate terms; even, if necessary,without annexations or indemnities/With the war beginning to go againsther, she is generously willing to surrender(for the present) all the lands conqueredfrom Russia, Roumania, France, andBelgium, and all of Servia save a narrowI strip bordering the Berlin to Bagdadrailway. She could restore all these and stWVwin the greatest victory in the history 28 The Peril of Prussianism of Hohenzollern conquests. The blindwould see only the status quo ante, Ger-many would see, and soon

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