asserted that "at all costs a German country must grow up in the twentieth centry in Brazil,"22 for in South America Germans will found a new Germany, “which shall prove a blessing to the old country, and stand as a model to the whole world!"28
Dr. Paul Rohrbach's explanation of German intentions in Brazil were even more arrogantly expressed. He stated that "although the United States may possibly prevent the acquirement of South American territory by Germany it cannot prevent the creation of a state within a state, and that when the Germans have finally accomplished that deed, they would rule the roost in Brazil and rule over the inferior peoples of that country."
"But," he added, "propaganda must be made in Germany to popularize the idea, and every good German must assist in the work because a promising future for Germany lies in her South American colonies, and to attain those ends Germans must work quietly, jointly and firmly—underground." Professor Wolf, coinciding with that view expressed his opinion that "South America for the German, is the land of the
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