The Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose integrity Germany was bound to respect as her ally, lay in the path of that line of conquest the Turkish Empire, whose interests she professed to make her own, lay in the direct path that she intended to tread. Taft has called your attention, but they lay then through a united empire. Where did the lines of that map lie, of that central line that we used to call from Bremen to Bagdad? They lay through these very regions to which Mr. We have been hearing for all these weary months that this agony of war has lasted of the sinister purpose of the central empires and we have made maps of the course that they meant their conquests to take. Taft has set a picture for you of what failure of this great purpose would mean.
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