Socialists Karl Liebknecht and Lededur(?) struggle to restrain Imperial Germany from getting its slice of the world — Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, Southwest Africa — that other world powers carve up. France, Italy, the United States and Britain dig in.

Die Sozialdemokratie gegen Weltpolitik

gegen Kolonien, gegen Heer und Flotte!

Die Welt Verteilung



Social democracy against world politics

against colonies, against the army and navy!

The world distribution



Reverse:

The center is a true people's party! pusing no interest politics! fights for throne and altar!

Map 2

Germany has passed on the expansion of its economic territory, which means that Germany can abdicate its responsibility as a policy-making country, but also restrain itself economically, thereby putting the situation of the working population at risk. Therefore "comrade" Calwer rightly says: "Commercial stagnation (halt) can not improving the condition of the workers." Nevertheless social democracy shamelessly invites the direct betrayal of the Fatherland, threatening mass strikes and revolution, failing which Germany would be forced to defend his rights and honor with the weapon. The Center stands solidly for a global and colonial policy, so that Germany can have land opened up for its surplus population, and gain new markets and sources of supply for trade and industry.

So vote for each of the Center's candidates and attend to his words.



Das Zentrum ist eine wahre Volkspartei! betreibt keine Interessenpolitik! kämpft für Thron und Altar

Karte 2

Verzichtet Deutschland auf die Erweiterung seines Wirtschaftsgebietes, so heißt dies: Deutschland kann nicht nur als politisch maßgebendes Land abdanken, sondern es geht auch wirtschaftlich zurück, und damit ist gleichzeitig die Lage der Arbeiter-Bevölkerung bedroht. "Genosse" Calwer sagt daher richtig: "Gewerbliche Stagnation (Stillstand) läßt keine Hebung der Lage der Arbeiter zu". Trotzdem fordert die Sozialdemokratie in schamloser Weise direkten Vaterlands-Verrat; sie droht mit Massenstreik und Revolution, fails Deutschland gezwungen wäre, sein Recht und seiner Ehre mit der Waffe zu verteidigen. Das Zentrum tritt ein für eine solide Welt- un

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Monday, March 13, 1916

"'That is why I direct Your Majesty's attention to the agreement the French and British Governments have just negotiated on the subject of Asia Minor ; M. Sazonov is to discuss it with you to-morrow. I have no doubt that your Government will examine the legitimate claims of the Government of the Republic in the most generous spirit.'

I gave him a general outline of the agreement. He immediately brought up the future constitution of Armenia.

'It's an exceedingly complicated question,' he said : 'I haven't yet discussed it with my ministers. Personally, I'm not contemplating any conquests in Armenia, with the exception of Erzerum and Trebizond, the possession of which is a strategical necessity for the Caucasus. But I won't hesitate to promise you that my Government will bring to its examination of this question the same friendly spirit which France has displayed towards Russia.'"

Quotation Context

On March 13, 1916, Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia, met with Russian Tsar Nicholas II to inform him of the progress of the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement, formally the Asia Minor Agreement, for dividing post-war Asia Minor — much of it part of the Ottoman Empire — between France and Great Britain, with the latter taking much of Mesopotamia, from the Persian Gulf to Baghdad, between the desert and Persia as well as Palestine. France was to have Syria, the Mediterannean coast including present day Lebanon and Syria, but deep into Turkey, less than 100 miles from the Black Sea to the north and Lake Van to the east. The Ambassador wants urgently to settle post-war spoils noting, 'the problems of Constantinople, Persia, the Adriatic and Transylvania have now been solved.' Constantinople was to be Russian, Persia divided between Britain and Russia, the Adriatic an Italian sea, Transylvania to be Romania's, if it joined the war. In the Caucasus, the Russians had taken the Turkish fortress of Erzerum in February, and were closing on the Black Sea city of Trebizond when the Nicholas and Paléologue met. Both cities were in eastern Turkey, which had, before the Genocide of 1915, a large population of Armenian Christians. Sergei Sazonov was the Russian Foreign Minister.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. II by Maurice Paléologue, page 205, publisher: George H. Doran Company

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1916-03-13, 1916, March, Asia Minor, Asia Minor Agreement, Sykes–Picot Agreement, Sykes–Picot, Sykes, Picot, dividing the world