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William Herbert Hobbs, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books World-War-And-Its-Consequences-Being-Lectures-In-The-Course-On-Patriotism-Delivered-At-The-Univ… More...

William Herbert Hobbs, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books World-War-And-Its-Consequences-Being-Lectures-In-The-Course-On-Patriotism-Delivered-At-The-University-Of-Pittsburgh-During-The-Summer-Session-Of-1918~~William-Herbert-Hobbs General Books LLC 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: II THE LAUNCHING OP THE WAR, THE RECORD OF TWELVE DAYS " The triumph of the Greater Germany, which some day must dominate all Europe, is the single end for which we are fighting."?Proclamation of June, 1915, by Kaiser Wilhelm II. "A Grey man came and said: 'You know, Your treaty guarantees them, so ' " I said to him, I said it plain, 'Then we must tear it up again.'" Malice in Kulturland. "In view of these indisputable facts, it is not surprising that the whole civilized world outside of Germany attributes to us the sole guilt for the world war."?Prince Karl Lichnowsky, lately German Ambassador at London. WE have seen that the ultimate cause of the present war is to be traced to German ambitions for world domination, a program consistently carried ' f " J The deslre out by the Hohenzollerns since the time of the for a - place Great Elector, and brought to its crowning ta the sun realization under Bismarck in the aggressive wars of 1864,1866, and 1870?wars by which Bismarck acquired new provinces for Prussia while welding the congeries of German states into the German Empire. William II., coming now to the throne and making the discovery that the valuable undeveloped and particularly tropical countries of the world had been largely acquired by Englandand France while the German states were distracted by religious wars, covets this "place in the sun" for Germany. The plot to secure the desired territory through aggressive wars was set forth by the Pan- German Union in a political tract published in 1911 and by General Bernhardi in his Germany and the Next War, which was published in 1912 (i). The more important events which led up to the launching of this war have been set down in order in the preceding chapter. Having prepared the explosive material,...<