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 ustria, dominated by the Germans, has become an essential feature of the German scheme of world dominion. One of the troubles with the German schemes of development has been that the Germans have always held Germanization of other nationalities a prime requisite of their plans. This constitutes an important difference between what may be termed English and French imperialism and German schemes of expansion. The German “Drang nach Osten” cannot be realized without Austria tied hand and foot to Ber-