Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning
Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

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Author: Egan, Maurice Francis,1852-1924
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Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

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Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

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Author: Egan, Maurice Francis,1852-1924
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Language: English
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Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning

The purpose of this book is to show the reflections of Prussian policy and activity in a little country which was indispensable to Prussia in the founding of the German Empire, and which, in spite of its heroic struggle in 1864, was forced to serve as the very foundation of that power; for, if Prussia had not unrighteously seized Slesvig, the Kiel Canal and the formation of the great German fleet would have been almost impossible. The rape of Slesvig and the acquisition of Heligolandthat despised 'trouser button' which kept up the 'indispensables' of the German Navyare facts that ought to illuminate, for those who would be wise, the past as a warning to the future. There is no doubt that the assimilation of Slesvig by Prussia led to the Franco-Prussian war, and liberated modern Germany from the difficulties that would have hampered her intention to become the dominant power in the world. The further acquisition of Denmark would have been only a question of time, had not the march of the Despot through Belgium aroused the civilised world to the reality of the German imperial aggressionuntil then, unhappily, not taken seriously. Had Germany followed the policy which induced her to hold Slesvig, in spite of the promise that the Slesvigers, passionately Danish, might by vote decide their own fateand seize Denmark, the Virgin Islands, not American, would have been German possessions. The change of policy which sent the German army into Belgium and Northern France, instead of into Denmark, was, in a measure, due to the belief in Germany, that the war would be short; and, with France helpless, Russia terrorised and England torn by political factions, she could control the Danish Belts that lead from the North Sea to the Baltic and treat these waters as German lakes. She reckoned as erroneously on that as she reckoned on controlling the Mediterranean and on smashing the Monroe Doctrine by practically possessing Argentine and Brazil. She built well, however, when she made Kiel the pride of the Emperor and the Empire. Europe watched the process, and hardly gave a thought to the outrage on humanity and liberty it involved. The world is suffering for this indifference. The retention of Danish Slesvig created the German sea power and the constant threat to Denmark concerns us all. It is a world question; and it must be answered in the interest of Democracy. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36412
Author: Egan, Maurice Francis
Release Date: Jun 14, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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