AS TO THE GOVERNMENT REGIME IN GERMANY.  IN WHICH ENGLAND HAD
PROFESSED LACK OF CONFIDENCE, THE FIELD MARSHALL WAS CONVINCED
THAT THE GERMAN SCHEME OF GOVERNMENT WAS SO FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE
NATION THAT IT COULD NOT BE DISPLACED- UNTIL GERMANY AND WITH HER
MOST OF MIDDLE EUROPE, WAS BROUGHT TO MILITARY, ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL COLLAPSE.  IT WAS DOUBTFUL WHETHER ENGLAND ENGLAND COULD
HAVE GREATER CONFIDENCE IN THE SUCCEEDING REVOLUTIONARY REGIME
WHICH WOULD SPRING UP FROM THE RUINS OF EUROPE.  GERMANY WAS
FIGHTING FIRST ALL AGAINST THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION BY ENGLAND AND
FRANCE.  AND FOR ESCAPE FROM STARVATION.  GERMANY WANTED A GERMAN
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN MIDDLE EUROPE WHICH WOULD BE LIKENED TO A
GERMAN MONROE DOCTRINE.  GERMANY WANTED ACCESS TO THE WORLDS
RAW MATERIALS AND TRADE THROUGH RESTORATION OF HER COLONIES, AND
THROUGH REMOVAL OF THE STRANGLE-HOLD WHICH ENGLANDAND FRANCE
IMPOSED ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND TRADE ROUTES BY FORCE OF THEIR
EMPIRES.  POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS AUTONOMY FOR THE
SMALLER STATES IN THE GERMAN ORBIT WERE INCLUDED IN THIS CON