Chapter IX

THE STILL NEUTRAL STATES WHOSE INDEPENDENCE WOULD BE DIRECTLY
THREATENED BY THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE “HAMBURG TO THE PERSIAN
GULF” SCHEME AND THEREFORE BY GERMANY’S CAPTURE OF
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 183

I. The example of Portugal, p. 183.—II. Holland, p.
187.—III. Switzerland, p. 191.—IV. The States of South
America, p. 193.—V. The United States, p. 198.

CONCLUSIONS

What has been set forth in the preceding nine chapters appears
to justify the following conclusions 213

MAPS

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The Poles in the East of Germany 1

The Danes in Prussia 2

The Germans and the non-Germans in Austria-Hungary 3

The Pangerman plan of 1911 12

The Antigermanic barrier in the Balkans after the treaty of
Bukarest (10th August, 1913) 28

The nationalities in Austria-Hungary 32

The three barriers of Antigermanic peoples in the Balkans and in
Austria-Hungary 43

The German claims in the West (beginning of 1916) 46

The German claims in the East 53

The German claims in the South and South-East 57

The plan of 1911 and the extent of its execution at the beginning
of 1916 64

The great political questions raised by the war 68

The German fortress at the beginning of 1916 72

The consequences of the dodge called “The Drawn Game” 79

Asiatic consequences of the accomplishment of the scheme “From
Hamburg to the Persian Gulf” 95

World-wide consequences of the “Hamburg to the Persian Gulf”
scheme, as provided for by the plan of 1911 101

The crucial point of the European problem 113

Great Bulgaria 133

Serbian Macedonia 137

Greece after the treaty of Bukarest 147

Great Roumania 153

The nationalities in Turkey 170

Encroachments planned by Bulgaria on neighbouring States 181

Portugal and Colonial Pangermanism 185

The Neutral States of Europe and Pangermanism 188

Colonial Pangermanism and South America 194

Distribution of German-born Germans in the United States 201

Relation between the Pangerman plan of 1911 and the Pangerman
gains at the beginning of 1916 217

The Pangerman gains at the beginning of 1916 223

European States interested in the solution of the Austro-Hungarian
question 231

The States of Asia and America, interested in the solution of the
Austro-Hungarian question 233