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ut: "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. And Germany, Germany will be above and over all! The glory and the splendour of the Hohenzollerns will shine upon the entire universe, and the German Emperor, Emperor of Emperors, like the King of Kings, will have nothing to fear until the Heavens fall. And we, who have forgotten nothing of the Terrible Year and what it took from us, we, who can see under the left breast of our beloved France, her bleeding heart, ravished Alsace-Lorraine, we shall lift our eyes unto Heaven, our last hope, beseeching it to strike down the presumptuous one, since men are afraid of him. April 10, 1895. [11] It has always been a dream of mine to see a newspaper founded under the title _Foreign Opinion_, a sheet confined to information, in which would be presented, clearly, simply, and held together by an intelligent sequence of ideas, quotations from the principal organs of those countries in which we have interests, either iden
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