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My Four Years in Germany by Gerard, James W., 1867-1951
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A word from our supporters: File extension UIF | Writing of events so new, I am, of course, compelled to exercise a great discretion, to keep silent on many things of which I would speak, to suspend many judgments and to hold for future disclosure many things, the relation of which now would perhaps only serve to increase bitterness or to cause internal dissension in our own land. The American who travels through Germany in summer time or who spends a month having his liver tickled at Homburg or Carlsbad, who has his digestion restored by Dr. Dapper at Kissingen or who relearns the lost art of eating meat at Dr. Dengler's in Baden, learns little of the real Germany and its rulers; and in this book I tell something of the real Germany, not only that my readers may understand the events of the last three years but also that they may judge of what is likely to happen in our future relations with that country. CONTENTSI MY FIRST YEAR IN GERMANY. II POLITICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL. III DIPLOMATIC WORK OF FIRST WINTER IN BERLIN. IV MILITARISM IN GERMANY AND THE ZABERN AFFAIR. V PSYCHOLOGY AND CAUSES WHICH PREPARED THE NATION FOR WAR. VI AT KIEL JUST BEFORE THE WAR. VII THE SYSTEM. VIII THE DAYS BEFORE THE WAR. IX THE AMERICANS AT THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES. X PRISONERS OF WAR. XI FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR: POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC. XII DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS. XIII MAINLY COMMERCIAL. XIV WORK FOR THE GERMANS. XV WAR CHARITIES. XVI HATE. XVII DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS. (Continued). XVIII LIBERALS AND REASONABLE MEN. XIX THE GERMAN PEOPLE IN WAR. XX LAST. ILLUSTRATIONSA SPECIAL TRAIN, AUGUST, 1914. AMBASSADOR GERARD ON HIS WAY TO PRESENT HIS LETTERS OF CREDENCE TO THE EMPEROR. THE HOUSE RENTED FOR USE AS EMBASSY. A SALON IN THE EMBASSY. THE BALL-ROOM OF THE EMBASSY. PROGRAMME OF THE MUSIC AFTER DINNER AT THE ROYAL PALACE. THE ROYAL PALACE AT POTSDAM. DEMONSTRATION OF SYMPATHY FOR THE AMERICANS AT THE TOWN HALL, AUGUST, 1914. RACING YACHTS AT KIEL. THE KAISER'S YACHT, "HOHENZOLLERN". AMBASSADOR GERARD ON HIS WAY TO HIS SHOOTING PRESERVE. A KEEPER AND BEATERS ON THE SHOOTING PRESERVE. CROWDS IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY, AUGUST, 1914. OUTSIDE THE EMBASSY IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR. AT WORK IN THE EMBASSY BALL-ROOM, AUGUST, 1914. AMBASSADOR GERARD AND HIS STAFF. COVER OF THE RUHLEBEN MONTHLY. SPECIMEN PAGE OF DRAWINGS FROM THE RUHLEBEN MONTHLY. ALLEGED DUM-DUM BULLETS. THE "LUSITANIA" MEDAL. PAGE FROM "FOR LIGHT AND TRUTH". AMBASSADOR GERARD AND PARTY IN SEDAN. IN FRONT OF THE COTTAGE AT BAZEILLES. FOOD ALLOTMENT POSTER FROM THE CHARLEVILLE DISTRICT. FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE KAISER'S PERSONAL TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT WILSON. FAC-SIMILE OF SECRETARY OF STATE'S REQUEST TO AMBASSADOR GERARD TO CALL IN ORDER TO RECEIVE SUBMARINE ANNOUNCEMENT. THE REMODELLED DRAFT OF THE TREATY OF 1799. INSTRUCTIONS SENT TO THE GERMAN PRESS ON WRITING UP A ZEPPELIN RAID. PETITION CIRCULATED FOR SIGNATURE AMONG AMERICANS IN EUROPE. PAGE FROM LISSAUER'S PAMPHLET SHOWING "HYMN OF HATE". INSTRUCTIONS REGULATING APPEARANCE AT COURT. A BERLIN EXTRA. CHAPTER IMY FIRST YEAR IN GERMANYThe second day out on the _Imperator_, headed for a summer's vacation, a loud knocking woke me at seven A. M. The radio, handed in from a friend in New York, told me of my appointment as Ambassador to Germany. Many friends were on the ship. Henry Morgenthau, later Ambassador to Turkey, Colonel George Harvey, Adolph Ochs and Louis Wiley of the _New_York_Times_, Clarence Mackay, and others. |