THE PANGERMAN PLOT UNMASKED.: BERLIN'S FORMIDABLE PEACE-TRAP OF "THE DRAWN WAR".

UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st reprint.[Originally and first published in France,in the original French in September,1916 and then in English translation in December,1916 and in January,1917 as the first reprint,this offered edn.Despite Roumania's entry into the war in August,1916,their repulsion and peace treaty in December,1917,the text of the book remains unaltered.] FINE.No owner inscptn.Exceptionally bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original light khaki cloth boards/covers with a red single-line blocked border edge and title+author lettering within, to front,red stamped letters to a lightly dulled spine/backstrip, rear board/cover plain and undecorated and without stamped border,clean plain white eps,both hinges solid and sound without any cracking.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears,splits or any fraying present.Top edges very lightly toned without foxing/spotting,fore-edges similarly toned and without foxing; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually foxing-free,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,1st reprint,v-xxxipp+1-235pp [paginated] includes note by publisher (oct 2nd,1916),separate contents+ illus (maps) lists/tables,an introduction by Earl of Cromer,O.M.,author's preface,a prologue,IX (9) chapters,31 thumbnail b/w regional maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,conclusions,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and to the rear,4pp publisher's advert.
A really exceptional example particularly for it's cleanliness,given the books age and without the protection of any dw/dj.
'M. Cheradame explains - and I believe with perfect accuracy - the nature of the German objective.It is,in his opinion,to lay secure and stable foundations for the system known as Pan- Germanism.'
'Pan-Germanism or Pan-Germanicism is a pan-nationalist political idea.Pan-Germanists originally sought to unify all the German and possibly also Germanic-speaking peoples in a single nation-state known as Großdeutschland. As a political policy it was particularly and highly influential in German politics in the 19th century during the unification of Germany when the German Empire was proclaimed as a nation-state in 1871 but without Austria.
One interpretation may be given to the word,which is NOT merely innocuous,but which may even reasonably appeal to the sympathies of those who approve of the new map of Europe being constituted with a view to applying that nationalistic principle,which finds almost universal favour in all democratic countries.It cannot be too distinctly understood that the political programme advocated by Germany has NO sort of affinity with a plan of this sort.The Germans contend that not only that all those who are generally denominated Germans by the rest of the world should be united,but that all who are what is termed "German origin" should be brought into the German fold. Moreover,they give to this latter phrase an expansion and signification which is condemned and derided by all who have paid serious attention to ethnological studies.The object of the German Government is to effect the whole or partial Germanization of countries inhabited by races which cannot,by any conceivable ethnological process of reasoning,be held to be of German stock.
Cheradame correctly describes Pan-Germanism as its object is to disregard all questions of racial and linguistic affinity and to absorb huge tracts of country the possession of which is considered useful to advance Hohenzollern interests.In other words,what they wish to establish,under the name of Pan-Germanism,a world system whose leading and most immediate feature is the creation of an empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the North Sea.
Cheradame (1871-1948) was a French journalist and scholar from the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques,who also worked for the French newspaper Le Petit Journal.He became known for his books about the geopolitics of Europe during the first half of the 20th century,mainly the aspects of German militarism and its expansionist policies.He predicted,even before the two World Wars,that the German General Staff would have a main role in planning military aggressions with the aim of creating a Greater Germany that would first engulf Central-Eastern Europe,then all of Europe,and by 1950 the rest of the world.He predicted that only by dismantling the militarist German elites and institutions Germany itself would be at peace with the rest of Europe,which the Allies did in fact achieve after WWII,dissolving both Prussia and the German General Staff.
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