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52 as regards her help in the Germanisation and the progressive domination of the different elements of the Czecho-Slovak, Polish, Yugo-Slav, Italian, and Rumanian nationalities. The Prussians alone could not undertake such a vast enterprise.

Such is the German plan, and the signification of the German watch-word "Central Europe"; such is the part played by the Habsbrurg Monarchy in the attack which the Teutonic powers have prepared against all of us, against the Czecho-Slovaks as against the Yugo-Slavs, against France as against England. And this is how the problem of Central Europe presents itself to all who are in conflict with the ancient empire of Austria-Hungary.