Germany and South America
A Brazilian View of the Pangermanist Dream of Conquest.
EVEN after two years and six months of war. we find ourselves still but poorly acquainted with the German designs for universal conquest. Her plans for conquest in South America, and her scheme for settlement in that continent at the expense of South American Republics is another evidence of Pangermanism which is the real cause of the war. In a recent article in the Nineteenth Century we have an interesting glimpse of the Brazilian view of the situation.
“The conquest of South America by Germany,^ says the writer, “was certainly a móst qmbitious dream of William the Second. After having annihilated France and Russia, and established German hegemony over Austria-Hungary. the Balkans.. Turkey, Egypt, and Persia; after having seized in the West, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, and the North, of France, starting from a line drawn from Pel fort to Calais; and, in the East, the Baltic! Provinces, Russian Poland, the Governments! of Kovno, Grodno, and Vilna, the German Empire would indicate within her frontiers 4,015,000 square kilometres, and 204.000,00p inhabitants, so that she could raise an army of twenty millions or twenty-eight millions, according to whether she raised soldiers at the rate of 10 per cent, or 14 per cent, pf the whole population. Who would be able untrer these conditions to resist her? On the other hand, having confiscated .the French Fleet and disposed of all the resources of the conquered countries, she could quickly