"He who does not advance recedes";--that was the cry of PanGermanism to the Emperor.

He must press on in order to conquer the entire world.
"And now war comes," continued the pedant.

"We need the colonies of the others, even though Bismarck, through an error of his stubborn old age, exacted nothing at the time of universal distribution, letting England and France get possession of the best lands.

We must control all countries that have Germanic blood and have been civilized by our forbears." Hartrott enumerated these countries.

Holland and Belgium were German.
France, through the Franks, was one-third Teutonic blood.Italy.