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Page 313 - We do not guarantee any state against punishment if it misconducts itself, provided that punishment does not take the form of the acquisition of territory by any non-American power.
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Page 320 - American universities German professors are more capable than their English-speaking colleagues, and make their influence felt unmistakably on thought, science, art, and literature. If Germans bear this in mind, and help accordingly, the goal will eventually be reached. At the present moment the centre of German intellectual activity is in Germany; in the remote future it will be in America.
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Page 13 - German possessions on the sea is some thousands of millions. Gentlemen, the serious duty devolves on you to help me to link this greater German Empire close to the home country, by helping me, in complete unity, to fulfil my duty also towards the Germans in foreign parts.
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| Title | The Pan-Germanic Doctrine: Being a Study of German Political Aims and Aspirations |
| Author | Austin Harrison |
| Publisher | Harper, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 3, 2007 |
| Length | 379 pages |
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