Excerpt from The German Army From Within

The movement was scarcely realised by the States of Western Europe, notably Great Britain, though its tendency was clearly defined, and, on the Teuton side, it received an impetus from a people who were half Slav, namely, the Pruss1ans. It was the more slow, perhaps, because racial impulse has been curbed by the subtle arts of diplomacy, by the science of strategy, and by a keen realisation of economic necessities. Each of these three factors has its Victories to record, acts which, to most people, seemed but loose links in the chain of history, rather than firm steps towards the goal, distant but clearly seen by those who led the movement. The science of strategy brought schleswig-holstein into the German Union, welded the German States together, and extended their line of outposts to the Vosges mountains. Diplo macy, following victory in the field, made of the German States an Empire, reconciled Austria, and forced Italy into the triple alliance. Diplomacy again brought Heligoland as an outpost in the sea to Germany, and political economy endeavoured to bring Holland into the German Zollverein. Thus the right flank of the Teuton movement from the Baltic to the Balkans was fully secured. Neither was the left flank neglected. Wedged in between the Balkan kingdoms and Russia was Roumania.

A Hohenzollern was placed on its throne, and all who know Roumania will realise that Austria is paramount there. In both Servia and Bulgaria la haute finance was in Austrian hands, and German commercial enterprise was extending into Asia Minor.

When the Teuton nations moved, so many centuries ago, a world-wide Empire fell in ruins, an Empire glutted with wealth, yet teeming with a pauper population in its capital, luxurious, enervated, disdaining any service to its country, unconscious of any Obligations in return for the privilege of citizenship. So Rome fell before the Teuton, before the pressure of a Volkerwanderung. N ow again the Teuton is moving.

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