New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20
,cnrrrlrh, lall. hy George NJ smanell

the War Office, WHICH has turned its
officers into cable censors.
Meantime, | hear the German AM
basSador at Washington continues 10
flood the American Press with his news
made IN Germany; or made in Wash
lngton, as the case may be. An Eng
liShmsu who is n friend of ours and in
position 10 act with effect came TO me
yesterday to ask whether il would be
advisable TO set up some kind of an
English agency in the United States to
counteract the German / begged him
TO do nothing Of the kind; believing as
do that the American public estimates
these German fairy tales at their true
value.
| told him the best service he could
do us in America would be to reduce
his CenSors here in London to order
and to common sense. Give us the real
news; we ask no more; the news not
Of what is going TO happen, or. like
Count Bernstorf's, Of what has nCtcr
happened. but Of what has actually
happened; the news Of accomplished
events. On those we think ourselves in
America quite competent to form an
opinion. Moreover, the English Gov
eminent has at last woke up. in part.
'''AN 10 W kAlAtAiAAk W Ntilh anu viii Nbll-
tinuc to send to the Embassies abroad
all official news. | presume the Press
Bureau, even though reinforced by
Mr.. McKenna, will not censurc the dis
patches Of its own Government to its
own Ambassador.
Finally ! told my friend had just
received letter from Newport which
might help him toe judge of the real
position and influence of the German
Ambassador in America. Count Bern
storH, in pursuance of a promise, had
Just written TO one of the great ladies
Of Newport, to propose himself as a
guest. But she put him off. fearing
that he came TO Newport he would
he i'll received; so strong is the anti
German feeling.
] dwell on the Censorship because it
concerns you all nearly in America.
And it has now to be said that wheth-
or for better or worse it has become
q Government Department in charge
of q Cabinet Minister, and for its good
ness or its badness the Government is
responsible
Amateur Peace-Mongering.
Accounts come by cable Of attempts
at eace-mongering in America by
amiable enthusiasts like Mr.. Oscar
Straus. and BY Count BernstortT, to
whose name | prefix no epithet, and by
the inevitable MIR. Bryan. Nobody here
thinks them of Importance. IT is the
settled opinion Of England and Of her
Allies that this is a contest which
must be fought once for all and fought
to the end. But there are people who
would really like to know what our
invaluable Secretary of State now
thinks Of the Mr. Bryan who depicted
India as the oppressed of England,
and her native rulers and people as
hating their oppressOr.
OF these native rulers 700 have now
offered themselves and their troops
and their resources TO England for the
war. In view Of this fact, does Mr..
Bryan the Secretary Of State now
agree with Mr.. Bryan the itincrant
journalist? Or does he now see, even
ne, either OF both Of him, that India,
military dependency though she be and
rot the colony he supposed her, is an
integral part of the British Empire?
She is not like Canada, Australia. New
Zealand, a elf-govcrning Dominion,
but her spirit of loyalty is the same
ard they all alike prove their loyalty
by deeds. Their devotion, the spec
tqcle of a worldwide empire thus
united as one organic force, must APP
peal to the Imagination even of those
who have none. &. W. ;.