Identifier: perilofprussiani00johnrich (find matches)
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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russianism 17 pie pledged to a policy of aggressivemilitarism. It is well for us to review these salientfacts of Prussian history, lest we forgetthat from the earliest time the house ofHohenzollem has efficiently and con-sistently pursued a single policy whichinevitably involves the maintenance of agreat military machine and the periodicemployment of that machine in ever-enlarging conquests of neighboring terri-tory. He is blind indeed who wouldimagine that, after ptusuing a givenpolicy for five himdred years with pheno-menal success, the Prussian Governmentshould to-day suddenly abandon thatpolicy in favor of another which it truth-fully admits would lead to the downfallof__a_^^painstakingly reared, autocracy.Both the nature of the Prussian ideal ofgovernment and the facts of Prussianhistory assure us that Germany is to-day, 18 The Peril of Prussianism as she has ever been in the past, strug-gling for world domination in order toprevent the downfall of the autocraticHohenzoUern rule.
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IV THE MAILED FIST AT WORK pORTUNATELY for our clearness ofvision, Germanys plans for hernext step toward the goal of world domi-nation are too plain to be doubted. Theyare precisely what Prussian history wouldlead us to expect. A petty HohenzoUemprovince first dominates Prussia, Prussiathen dominates Germany, and now theplans provide that Germany shall domi-nate Etirope. The method of achievingthe desired end is precisely the same withwhich history has made us so familiar.Adjacent territories are to be broughtimder HohenzoUem rule by the annexa-tion of some and the federation of others 19 20 The Peril of Prussianism into a great Central European Empire,with Germany the directing force andthe Prussian military machine the in-vincible bond which holds them to-gether. Let us lift the curtain for amoment and watch the mailed fist as itmoves the pieces on the European chess-board in preparation for the coup of 1914.We see the evil hand in Vienna, shap-ing the policy of the Dual Monarchy a

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