EVKDTG ' LTiiOOBB-PHJXiAH-' VhUBSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917 GERMANY HE NEXT fZEPUBUC (By CARL WjCKERMAN "The German people were never told why the United States asked for the mail of Germany's two attaches who were implicated in spy plots. Nothing was ever pub lished in the German newspapers about Herr von Igel." Copyright. 1017, Oeorcs II. Dorun Compter. !f Both Captain von Papen and Captain Boy-Ed, Upon Returning to Germany After the United States Had Demanded Their Recall, Were Regarded era Heroes, and Were Given the Most Trusted Positions With the Army and Navy Departments i i i ' Overzealous Americans tn Germany Did More Than Probably Any Other Single Facpor to Diminish the Efficacy of President Wilson's Diplomacy and to Hinder Ambassador Gerard in Trying to impress Upon the Foreign Office Our Sincerity CARRYING out tho Gcrmnn Idea that it was right to harm or destroy American property which was directly or indirectly tiding the Allies, both Germany and Austria-Hungary published notices that their citizenB in the United States were not permitted tn, work in .such factories. And plots which Captains Boy-Ed and Van Papen instigated here were done with the approval and dncour- iigcment of the German Government. If any proot is neeaea ior mis statement in addition to that already published, it Is that both of these men upon their return to Germany were regarded as heroes and given the most trusted positions. Captain, Boy-Ed was placed at, the head of tho Intelli gence Department of the navy and Captain von Papen was assigned to the headquarters of the general commanding tho operations on the Somme. As the food situation in Germany becamo worse tho disposition ef the people changed still more. Tho Government had already pointed out in numerous public statements that tho United States was not neutral because it overlooked tho English blockade and thought only about tho German submarine war. So as food diffi culties developed tho people blamed tho United States and held President Wilsoni personally responsible for the growing shortages within Germany. The peoplo believed Mr. Wilson was their greatest enemy and that ho was tho man most to bo feared. How strong this feeling was not only among tho people, but in Government circles, was to bo shown later when Germany announced her sub marine campaign. Truth Withheld From German People 3CSh"9HHB''hV"1 "sasasasasasasasfroJ, 5 fit lL assL-LIRlkwl I lWwjWJi " ""WWIi, I I til A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE & Seven score year hire elapsed since those' great words were lorged thai welded m Md . oitlon opsn mm fiery battlefields. In thai day the, strong volets of strong men rang across the world, their raekea weftfe (lifted with tight and (heir arms broke (he visible chains ol an Intolerable bondage. But now In' the red reflex ol the glare catl from (he battteflttds ol Europe Hit favlaWa ' tnanielei thai bare been tanning! laid epoo our freedom have become shamefully afptreet. Tbey raltle to (he ears of (he world. Out liberty has vanished once again. Ye I oor ancient enemy retnaftvs ea. Ibtoned In high places within our land and In Insolent ships belor Oor gates.. W km not only become Colonials once again, but subjects, for troe subjects eta knoWn by the. measure of their willing subjection. ' We Americans In (he heart ol this heroic nation now struggling for alt ttat wo ousetra Aold dear, but against .odds such as we were never forced to face, perceive (hit truth wMi a. disheartening but unclouded vision. Par (rom home we would lo-day celebrate, as usual, the birthday of o'qr' lied. 7 Bat wRft httvy hearts we see that this would now teem like a hollow mockery of something solemn and Immemorial. It were more In keeping with reality that we burnt Incense upon tho altars of Ike British Dial Independence Day without Independence! The 'liberty' of H teas denied es for (hepescefst commerce ol our entire land, and granted us only for .the murderous trafficking ol a few meat Independence Day has dawned for us lo alien yet friendly land .ft. has brought Jo lis at least the Independence of our minds. Free from the abominations of (he most 'dastardly' campaign 'of falsehood duff ever dis graced those who began and those who believe lt,'we have stripped ourselves of tfti rags ol many perilous Illusions. We 'ice America .as .a whole and we tee It -with a fatal and terrible' clarity. We see thsl once agalb'our liberties' ol fiongnt,of speech, of Intercourse of I Ude, ate threatened, nay,:alredy selied byjhe one ancient enemy that can never; bt oat friend. With humiliation Ve behold 'out prlnofptes, our -tense of JosHce' trodden-'underfoot W ate the wild straining ol (he felon arms that would drag our land Into the abyss .ol the giant' Conspiracy and Crime. We see the foul aHIasee ol gold, murderous Iron and debauched paper V which' we taw tern told. We know thai oor prtttnset and ambitions as heralds ol peace are monstrous, 'so long tt. wt profit through war and human agony. We see these rivers ol blood that hava.thetr source ta oar mills of slaughter. The Day ol Independence has dawned. It Is a aolemo and momentous hour for America, It Is a day dn which 'our'people must speak with clear and loexorableVolce: tt tit silent In shame. It It. fbt great hour-Mo' which we dire oot'eetebrate orir tlrat Declaration ol Indspindince, beeaust the lime- baa come when wo oust proclaim. a new one over the corpse ol lhatrilcb tss:pelsbed." Bestta.jty4'eVt1& "When I received aYtclegram saying that diplomatic relations would be broken, and giving mo n summary of tho American presa comment I took It to tho Foreign Offlce and asked permission to send It to the German nowspapers. This wns refused." f. t if As was pointed out in a previous chapter, while Germany was arguing against shipments of war munitions from tho United States, sho herself was responsible for tho preparations which Russia and Rumania had made against her; but this proof of decep tion on the part of tho Government was never explained to tho German people. , Furthermore, the people were never told why the United States . BtKea ior me recall ot uermanys two attaencs who were impli ! cated in spy plots. Nothing was ever published in the German ! newspapers about Herr von Igel. The newspapers always pub j lished dispatches which told of the destruction of ammunition J factories by plotters, but never about the charges ngainst and ; arrests of German reservists. Just as the German Government 1 1 has never permitted the nconle to know that it nronnroil fnr n ur , J against nine nations, as the document I saw in the Chief Telegraph A J Oice shows, so has tt not explained to the people the real motives PfJ'snd the real arguments which President Wilson presented in his H many submarine notes. Whenever these notes wcro published in tho German newspapers the Government always published an oEBclal explanation, or correspondents were inspired to writo the Govern ment views, so the people could not think for thcmsclvea or come to honest personal conclusions. The effectiveness of Mr. Wilson's diplomacy against Germany was decreased by some German-Americans, and tho fact that the United States is today at war with Germany is duo to this blundering of somo of those overzealous citizens who, being so anxious to aid Germany, became anti-Wilson and in tho long run defeated what they set out to accomplish. Had tho German Government not been assured by somo German-Americans that they would nover permit President Wilson to break diplomatic relations or go to war, had these self-appointed envoys stayed away from Berlin, the relations between tho United States and Germany might today bo different than they are. Bccauso if Germany at the outset of tho submarine negotiations had been given tho impression by a united America that the President spoke for tho country, Germany would undoubtedly have given up all hope of a ruthless submarine warfare. I think President Wilson and Mr. Gerard realized that tho activities of tho German-Americans hero were not only inter fering with tho diplomatic negotiations, but that tho German-Americans were acting against their own best interests if they really desirod peaco with Gormany. When some of the President's friends saw that tho German -peoplo wero receiving such biased news from tho United States and thnt Germany had no opportunity of learning the roal sentiment here, nor of sounding the depth of American indignation over tho Lusltanla, they endeavored to get dispatches from tho United States to Germany to enlighten the people. Roy W. Howard, presi dent of the United Press, endeavored several times while I was In Berlin to get unadulterated American news in the German nows papers, but the German Government was not overly anxious to have such information published. It was too busy encouraging the anti-American sentiment for the purpose of frightening the United States. It was difficult, too, for the United Press to get tho neces sary co-operation in tho United States for this news service. After tho settlement of the Sussex dispute the democratic newspapers of Germany, those which wero supporting tho Chancellor, wero anxious to receive reports from hero, but tho German Foreign Office would not encourago tho matter to tho extent of using tho wireless towers at Sayvlllo and Tuckerton as means of transmitting tho news. AN ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA DOCUMENT How zealously tho Foreign Office censor guards what appears in the German newspapers was shown about two weeks before diplo matic relations were broken. When tho announcement was wire lessed to the United States that Germany had adopted the Von Tirpitz blockade policy the United Press sent mo a number of daily bulletins telling what the American press, Congressmen and the Government wero thinking and saying about tho new order. The first day these dispatches reached me I sent them to several of the leading newspapers, only to bo notified in less than an hour afterward by the Foreign Offlce that I was to send no information to the German newspapers without first sending it to tho Foreign Office. Two days after the blockado order was published.1 received a telegram from Mr. Howard saying thnt diplomatic relations would be broken and giving me n summary of the pres3 comment. I took this dispatch to the Foreign .Office and asked permission to send it to the nowspapers. It Was refused. Throughout this" crisis, which lasted until tho tenth of February, tho Foreign Office' would not permit a single dispatch coming direct from America to bo printed in tho German newspapers. 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