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SEARCHLIGHT ON GERMANY

GERMANY'S BLUNDERS, CRIMES
AND PUNISHMENT

BY

DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY

Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society

Preparation Pamphlet Series

PUBLISHED BY

American Defense Society

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I. The Blunders of Germany.

BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.

Member Board of Trustees American Defense Society.

Already in America there are signs of the inevitable "magnanimity"toward the great world criminal of the present world war, and ofa movement for a whitewashed peace with "no annexations and noindemnities." There is danger that within six months Americans who donot know Germany will seek to snatch the boon of durable peace andhuman freedom from the Allied nations who have given their bravestand best men, literally by millions, and their wealth by billions, toprotect the rights of man. A German peace means a German triumph, andthe certainty of another war in the near future. As an approach towarda settlement, it is now very necessary that every American should knowGermany exactly as that bloody military dragon really is. As a means tothat end, these three chapters have been written.

The blunders, crimes and punishment of Germany are inseparably linkedtogether.

The blunders of Germany constitute a spectacle of very much more thanpassing interest. The questions they raise are by no means academic.The logic of them is as inexorable as Death. They are of vital interestto every freeman, and to every state and nation that sincerelyundertakes to conserve the rights of its people. To unhappy Austria,shoved into the war by Germany, they are of life or death interest.A correct view of Germany is now absolutely essential to the futurefreedom of man!

Germany now resembles a rat in a pit, furious from countless defeats,insane with baffled hate and rage, and wild with a fearful certainty ofher Finish. All her fine plans, and twenty years of active preparation,have gone awry. Her vast naval and military preparations have broughther only death, poverty, ruin and hatred. Even her own allies nowthoroughly hate and detest her, and one and all would break away fromher if they dared.

All her long years of lying and spying and plotting have been revealedin their naked and hideous ugliness. She stands before the world as afoiled conquestador, a black-hearted murderer of defenseless women,children and old men, and the wholesale ravisher of helpless women.The "skull-cracker" spiked club of Germany, and the deadly "murderer'smace" of Austria, now abundantly shown in Italy's war museum, are usedfor the murdering of wounded prisoners in the trenches and on thebattlefields.

And now Germany, like a mortally wounded wolf with the hounds at histhroat, undertakes to propose terms of peace to the Allies! Witha great show of large-heartedness, the Reichstag now talks verymagnanimously of peace with "no annexations and no indemnities." Yes,indeed! A peace on that basis would suit Germany well. Tricky andshifty to the last gasp, she seeks thus to catch the swell-headed"soldiers and workmen" of Russia, the large-mouthed and blatantanarchists and radical socialists of America, and the traitor-pacifistsof the world at large. But all honest men who are wide awake knowfull well that a peace of that nature would spell "victory" forGermany, and as certain as death an