Attitude Toward German People,
Their plan was to throw a broad belt
of German military power and political
control across the very center of Eu
rope and beyond the Mediterranean in
to the heart of Asia ; and Austria-Hun
gary was to be as much their tool and
pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey
or the ponderous states of the East
The dream had Its heart at Berlin. It
could have had a heart nowhere else !
It rejected the idea of solidarity of
race entirely. The choice of peoples
played no part In it at all. They ar
dently desired to direct their own af
fairs, would be satisfied only by undis
puted Independence, They could be
kept quiet only by the presence or the
constant threat of armed men. The
German military statesmen had reck
oned with all that and were ready to
deal with it In their own way.
Policy One of Deceit.
