In spite of Germany's protestations of innocence, her loud cries that the war was forced upon her, there is ample evidence that for years she had been planning it; that she wanted it and only awaited the opportune time to launch it.

It was a gradual unearthing and examination of this evidence that at length revealed to the world the astounding plot.
It is not necessary to touch more than briefly the evidence of Germany's designs, and the intrigues through which she sought world domination and the throttling of human liberty.

The facts are now too well established to need further confirmation.

The ruthless manner in which the Kaiser's forces prosecuted the war, abandoning all pretense of civilization and relapsing into the most utter barbarism, is enough to convince anyone of her definite and well prepared program, which she was determined to execute by every foul means under the sun.
She had skillfully been laying her lines and building her military machine for more than forty years.

As the time approached for the blow she intended to strike, she found it difficult to conceal her purposes.
Noises from the armed camp--bayings of the dogs of war--occasionally stirred the sleeping world; an awakening almost occurred over what is known as the Morocco incident.
On account of the weakness of the Moroccan government, intervention by foreign powers had been frequent.