POLICY IN THE ORIENT OUR so-called Intelligentsia are beginning in a most unhealthy fashion to divert our foreign policy from any real representation of our national interests, in order that it may serve their fantastic theories, and I feel myself obliged to speak with special care to my adherents on a most important question of foreign policy, namely, our relations towards Russia, since it ought to be understood by all and can be treated in a work such as this.
The duty of the foreign policy of a national State is to ensure the existence of the race included in that State by keeping a natural and healthy proportion between the numbers and the increase of the nation and the size and quality of the land in which they dwell.
Nothing but sufficient space on the earth ensures freedom of existence to a nation. In this way only can the German nation defend herself as a world Power. For nearly two thousand years our national interests, as our more or less happily conceived foreign activities may be termed, played their part in the world’s history. We ourselves can witness to that. For the great struggle of the nations from 1914 to 1918 was but the German nation struggling for its existence in the world, and it went by the name of the World War.
At that time the German nation was ostensibly a world Power. I say “ostensibly” because it was really not a world Power. If the German nation had pre¬ served the proportion I referred to above, Germany would really have been a world Power, and the War might, apart from all other factors, have been either avoided or ended in our favour.
To-day, Germany is not a world Power. From a purely territorial point of view, the area of the German Reich is insignificant compared with those