Henceforward all Europe must hear and accept the
offensive utterance which the Germans shout: "Deutschland ueber Alles!"
Yes, Germany over all things.
That her Emperor should have willed it, is enough to bring together in
his triumphant procession all the following--
Russia, despoiled of her triumph at Constantinople by the Congress of
Berlin, and exposed on her flank by the Baltic Canal.
England, tricked at Heligoland and at Zanzibar, and whose power is
threatened by the very fleet which she is going to salute.
Spain, threatened in the Carolines, who has only been protected from
Prussian presumption by her own indomitable pride.
Denmark, cynically robbed of Schleswig-Holstein.
Italy, from whom the German navy, when it has become the equal of the
German army and fulfilled the dream of William II, will take Trieste.
It is true that, to make up for Trieste, diplomacy at Berlin is putting
Salonika in pickle with a good deal of English pepper, intending to
offer it as a _hors d'oeuvre_ to Austria, Germany's advanced and
submissive sentinel in the East.
France, the most deeply injured and despoiled, whom the German conquest
has plundered to the utmost, she also will take part in the procession,
and in order that our humiliation be the more complete, so that the
French army may be unable to forgive the French navy for it, our Flag,
our beloved colours, will doubtless salute one of those Prussian
vessels which carry the name of one of our defeats, for instance, the
_Woerth_!
After that, William II, King of Prussia, will be unable to descry a
single cloud on the German horizon.
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