The Kaiser's Temptation

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Excerpt from The Kaiser's Temptation: An Historical Play Dealing With the Causes of the Great War Designed for High Schools, Colleges, and Community Work in Raising Funds for School Equipment and for War CharitiesKaiser: We need Belgium and shall seize her, but suppose she resist. Should She delay us, victory over France may be come costly in German blood. We need my soldiers for further conquests. We shall strike terror to the world by showing no mercy. Then what of the indemnity of world hate toward all that is German? Will the trade-mark, Made in Germany, be longer accepted?Devil Resentment against a victorious general is soon for gotten. Think of the glory of a quick conquest of France by taking Paris. You need the coal and iron mines of Northern France for the war after the war. You need the channel ports. A strong German peace will give you all.Kaiser: Suppose that England should now awake to her peril rather than peacefully to await our good time to strike. She may take the Belgian treaty seriously.Devil: _no mere scrap of paper will bring her to the res cue, as she has only a contemptible little army. With your spies and propaganda already at work in Ireland, in South Africa, in Egypt, and in India she dare not move.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.