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I mean to say here we've had Mittel-Europa, that is, the Mittel-Europa idea, as a sort of fantasmus in front of Teutonism ever since Koniggratz." The Authority looked all round us in that searching way he had. We all tried to look like men seeing a fantasmus and disgusted at it. "So you see," he went on, "Mittel-Europa is done with." "I suppose it is," I said.
His position and long record of public service secured him an undisturbed hearing as he floundered through the potentialities of Mittel-Europa with the aid of a lantern and pointer; and his audience was usually rewarded for its patience when he forsook high politics and set its flesh agreeably creeping with a peroration compounded equally of German spies and pro-German ministers.
But, above all, she put her trust in a vast political combination which she had laboriously prepared during the years preceding the great conflict: the combination which we have learned to call Mittel-Europa. None of us realised to how great an extent this plan had been put in operation before the war began.
It was a bright starlight night, and the old white church with its bulbous tower, last outpost of Turkey in her heyday, looked like a lone mourner for the dream of Mittel-Europa. Gisela climbed the mound and entered the quiet enclosure. She had met no one in the peaceful suburb, although she had heard the deep guttural voices of elderly men still lingering at the tables in the beer gardens.
The memorandum follows: "The present Russian situation, which is unspeakably horrible and which seems beyond present hope of betterment, presents new problems to be solved at the peace table. "The Pan-Germans now have in shattered and impotent Russia the opportunity to develop an alternative or supplemental scheme to their 'Mittel-Europa' project.
I didn't know just whether to speak with regret or not. I heard Rapley murmur, "I guess so." "And there is not a doubt," continued the Authority, "that when Mittel-Europa goes, Grossdeutschthum goes with it." "Oh, sure to," we all murmured.
But that way was not included in the German plan. It was remote from the Berlin-Baghdad-Bahn. It did not lead toward a dominant imperial state of Mittel-Europa, with tentacles reaching out to ports on every sea and strait. The plan for another Hague conference failed to interest the ruling clique at Berlin and Potsdam because they had made "other arrangements."
And it would be greatly to be desired by their friends that France and Italy also should see their way to adhesion. It would be objected, I suppose, by some critics that such an arrangement might go some way in effect towards realizing the former German dream of Mittel-Europa.
"You're such a celebrity nowadays that I suppose you simply won't look at your humble friends! I saw your first thing the last time I was home it seems like the Dark Ages now, before my little sojourn in Mittel-Europa. I imagine you're sick of hearing it praised, especially by people who don't know anything about it, but I thought it was an amazingly good play. You seem to have struck oil.
"Ah," said the Authority, "I see; you mean Germany as a Souverantat embodied in a Reichsland." "That's it," I said. "Then it's rather hard," said the Eminent Authority, "to answer your question in plain terms. But I'll try. One thing, of course, is absolutely certain, Mittel-Europa goes overboard." "It does, eh?" "Oh, yes, absolutely. This is the end of Mittel-Europa.
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