The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-25
Frederic William Vile, in Recent Book.
Tells of Propaganda to Upset
Policy of Neutrality

DC-
lighted said Won Holleben. DID the
president Of the Indianapolis senger-
bund want to give a concert at Pots
dam with the usual marks Of royal
recognition to follow? 'Jawohl! Can
be arranged without any trouble
wired the German Ambassador. Ger
man A~mericansm' had at last come
into Its ~hyphenated own.
Presently Won Holleben turned his
attention to the GENERALIZATION Of all
branches Of organized German life in
the United States. Town and city
branches OF this. that or the other
verein, clubs, veteran unions, church
societies. rifle associations must be
turned into State organizations and
state organizations again into ma
tlonal leagues. On April 10, 1899, the
German-American Central Alliance OF
Pennsylvania was founded TO give
impulse to The idea Of the conSolida-
ton OF the German-American element
Since then the alliances progress
has steadily continued. To-day It's
membership Is over 1000. 900, includ-
ing German born citizens OF the United
States and their American born de-
10 ny li III IuOSt
powerful, numerically, OF all German
American national organizations-the
various organizations of the thousand
and n village. town, city. county and
State organizations which are Sleep
lessly promoting Deutschtum under
the guise of American citizenship and
patriotism in their respective indi-
vidual communities.
They represent. according to a Ger
man-American boast which errs on
the side OF exaggeration, a round one
third OF the voting strength OF the
United States in a Presidential cleo
ion. DR.. Won Holleben. now gathered
10 his fathers, might we'll be proud of
his pioneer labors 10 the closing hours
OF the preceding century.
August. 1914. found the American
field, IT was confidently believed in Ber-
lin. well and truly planted for Ger
many's purposes. Teuton organiza-
tons throughout the States had thir-
teen years Of centralized activity be-
hind them. DR.. Munsterberg and
Professor Kuno Francke were installed
at Harvard. Jastrow at the University
Of Pennsylvania, and a host Of minor
PROFESSIONAL fry wa strategically dis
tributed at Columbia. Yale. Cornell,
Chicago. Madison. Ann Arbor and
other centres Of American academic
life.
The kaiser's exchange professor
ship initiated ten years previous be-
tween Harvard and Berlin universities,
had now a dozen or more offspring in
the shape Of exchange chairs at as
many other German and American
universities. Mr.. James Speyer's
Roosevelt PROFESSIONALLY exchanging
an American scholar annually for a
German savant. had been in operation
nearly as long.
There were at this time at least
fifteen American university leaders Of
the stamp OF President Hadley Of Yale,
DR.. Peabody Of Harvard. Dean Burgess
Of Columbia twho delighted the Kaiser
by publicly attacking the Monroe Doc
trine in Berlin). Professor Paul Shorey
Of Chicago. Or. Coolidge OF Harvard,
Professor Alphonso Smith OF Virginia.
President Wheeler Of California and
Drs. o and Adler of Columbia.
who had each in his turn had six
months Of imperial adulation and aca-
demic veneration at Berlin, Leipsic.
.huHlCH, ana otner counts or hultur,
and were looked upon in Potsdam as
grateful apo!ogists for the German
cause in the United States in any
emergency which might arise. All
that German thoroughness. far sight
cdness and obsequiousness could do
to create in the United States a favor
able American setting for The Day
! had been done.
Then came the great war. Won
B~ernstorf. snatched from the midst OF
his summer vacation in Bavaria. hur-
ried to New York; in his train DR..
Bernhard Dernburg. graduate Of Wall
Streets frenzied school OF finance in
youthful days. glib talker OF United
states English the only successful
political campa!gner. as campaigning
is carried on in democratic countries,
which Germany had ever produced
The twain arrived in New York on
August "A. They set up their head
quarters at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in
New York.
while a hundred subsidized pens
and typewrlters now set themselves to
the task Of grinding out German prop