My Four Years in Germany by Gerard, James W., 1867-1951

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Contents Illustrations Chapter I My First Year In Germany

Chapter Ii

Chapter Iii Diplomatic Work Of First Winter In Berlin

Chapter Iv Militarism In Germany And The Zabern Affair

Chapter V Psychology And Causes Which Prepared The Nation For War

Chapter Vi At Kiel Just Before The War

Chapter Vii The System

Chapter Viii The Days Before The War

Chapter Ix The Americans At The Outbreak Of Hostilities

"the Ambassador."

Chapter X Prisoners Of War

Chapter Xi First Days Of The War: Political And Diplomatic

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William, H. R.

Chapter Xii Diplomatic Negotiations

James W. Gerard."

Chapter Xiii Mainly Commercial

Chapter Xiv Work For The Germans

Chapter Xv War Charities

Chapter Xvi Hate

Chapter Xvii

Chapter Xviii Liberals And Reasonable Men

Chapter Xix The German People In War

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Chapter Xx Last

The End

Even some boxes of cigarettes we sent another royalty at the front at Christmas time, 1914, were not acknowledged.

Dr. Jacobs, who was the correspondent in Berlin of _Musical_America_, and who remained there until about the twenty-sixth of April, 1917, was called on about the sixteenth of April, 1917, to the Kommandantur and subjected to a cross-examination. During this cross-examination he was asked if he knew about the "League of Truth," and why he did not join that organisation. Whether it was a result of his non-joining or not, I do not know, but during the remainder of his stay in Berlin he was compelled to report twice a day to the police and was not allowed to leave his house after eight o'clock in the evening. The question, however, put to him shows the direct interest that the German authorities took in the existence of this malodorous organisation.

It appears in some of the circulars issued by the League of Truth that I was accused of giving American passports to Englishmen in order to enable them to leave the country.

After I left Germany there was an interpellation in the Reichstag about this, and Zimmermann was asked about the charge which he said he had investigated and found untrue.

In another chapter I have spoken of the subject of the selling of arms and supplies by America to the Allies. No German ever forgets this. The question of legality or treaties never enters his mind: he only knows that American supplies and munitions killed his brother, son or father. It is a hate we must meet for long years.

CHAPTER XVII

DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS (_Continued_)

A few days after the events narrated in Chapter XII, von Jagow called to see me at the Embassy and invited me to visit the Emperor at the Great General Headquarters; but he did not state why I was asked, and I do not know to this day whether the Chancellor and those surrounding the Emperor had determined on a temporary settlement of the submarine question with the United States and wished to put that settlement out, as it were, under the protection of the Emperor, or whether the Emperor was undecided and those in favour of peace wished me to present to him the American side of the question. I incline to the latter view. Von Jagow informed me that an officer from the Foreign Office would accompany me and that I should be allowed to take a secretary and the huntsman (_Leibjaeger_), without whom no Ambassador ever travels in Germany.