GERMANY IN BRAZIL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 11

GERMANY IN BRAZIL.

. -^ — «. , j PLANS FOR, NEyr, EMPIRE, j WAITING PRETEXT TO SEIZE • COUNTRY, "It is strange," , said an old German diplomat, whose insight Into the plans of the men who mould the destinies of the German Empire is second to none, "that none of you newspaper men ever learn to look through the outer shell of things and discover the kernel within, but it ia a most fortunate thing for statesmen that you don't." So'writes the Berlin correspondent of the American. . "Hera, all tha. papers pf the world have printed end'ess stories about the Morocoo quqitjpn, and though some of them havo beonvgrnart enough to hint that this little affiiir'wa* partly brought up in order, to unite "the voters of Germany behind the Government and stem the tifie of Socialism at the coming elections, not one seems to have/ discovered that Germany really cares nothing for thß soil in Afrioa, and that the'-pjans of the Govern, meqfe are to create, a 'new Germany across the Atlantio. , "The. territories of Congo and Morocco ore utterly unsuitable for German colonisation, though rloh in mineral wealth, whioh Germany, howpver, can easily get her share of without burdening herself with the heavy expense of governing these vast strotohes of land, where the rulers will havq to waste money and blood fighting the natives for year*, to odmo. MUST HAVE COLONIES. "Germany wants oolonieu, must- have colonies to provide an outlet for her too rapidly increasing population, but she does not want thorn m Africa, and for onoe our statesmen have spoken tha truth when they said that we do pot want an irtc.h of Moroccan soi}. We wanfc polonies, but we want them in South Amerioa, in. spite of all official denials. "To cay just where the German eagle) wil' fiwflpti down on tha South Americun Continent 19 rather difficult at present, , but probably I shall pot be far out of the, ! way when f venture to say that il will be somewhere in Brazil. Scores of thousands [ of Gerjnan, settlers are already th,era cultivating the nipst fertile sqil in the world. I You may travel for many milee in Brazil and not have to speak anything but German, and all these German settlers are at true patriots as the day they left the mouth of the- Elbe or the Weser. "Sqmo day an incident will happen over there which will give the German Government a pretext for interfering, and' then it will only be a question of how much land Germany chooses to take. The native poo- , plo of Brazil, a rotten race of mixed Spanish, Indian, and negro blood, are poor fighters, and will be able to make little or no resistance to Germany. NOT AFRAID OF UNITED STATES. "I know what you are going to say. The Monroe Doctrine ! But nobody hero thinks that tha United States will uphold that somewhat shadowy dictum in defence of anything south of Panama, especially against n Power as strong as Germany. We think American! too good business [ men °to do 'that.* "tre expect the .Unit£*

States to protest, ctrongly even, but only in words, and then the- matter will end with a compromise of some kind whereby w& take what we want, and tha United States something nearer homo than ■ Brazilian lands. "Of course, such a thing is utterly impossible as long as Germany was without a navy to back up her demands, and this is why we have been spending money far beyond our moans to build up an immense navy, and why we had to do it before the opening of ' the Panama Canal, an event which will double the strength of the American Navy. "Before that happens, I venture to say Germany will have a large colony in South America, and she will have got it, I hope »nd honestly believe, not only without fighting the United States, but even without ruining the existing friendship between the two most thrifty and enterprising nations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. "England, living up to her reputation of beinjr the most hypocritic nation in the world, may throw up her hands in pretence of" righteous indignation, forgetting that she has stolen more land than any other country; but sho will go no further, having already all she can do to hold her vast Empire together. "Thus the peace of the world will resr on a more eolid basis than ever — France holding Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and French Congo; Russia Manchuria; and the United States ruling the North Amen, oan Continent as far south as Panama and with or without Canada w Part of he* dominions. "