It is not necessary to touch more than briefly the evidence of Germany's
designs, and the intrigues through which she sought world domination and
the throttling of human liberty. The facts are now too well established
to need further confirmation. The ruthless manner in which the Kaiser's
forces prosecuted the war, abandoning all pretense of civilization and
relapsing into the most utter barbarism, is enough to convince anyone of
her definite and well prepared program, which she was determined to
execute by every foul means under the sun.

She had skillfully been laying her lines and building her military
machine for more than forty years. As the time approached for the blow
she intended to strike, she found it difficult to conceal her purposes.
Noises from the armed camp--bayings of the dogs of war--occasionally
stirred the sleeping world; an awakening almost occurred over what is
known as the Morocco incident.

On account of the weakness of the Moroccan government, intervention by
foreign powers had been frequent. Because of the heavy investment of
French capital and because the prevailing anarchy in Morocco threatened
her interests in Algeria, France came to be regarded as having special
interests in Morocco. In 1904 she gained the assent of Britain and the
cooperation of Spain in her policy. Germany made no protest; in fact,
the German Chancellor, von Bulow, declared that Germany was not
specially concerned with Moroccan affairs. But in 1905 Germany demanded
a reconsideration of the entire question.

France was forced against the will of her minister of foreign affairs,
Delcasse, to attend a conference at Algeciras. That conference discussed
placing Morocco under international control, but because France was the