The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-25
Bernstorff and Dernburg, He Says,
Overplayed Their Parts and Entire
Scheme Acted as a Boomerang

law officers to deport Richard Bar
tholdt and his brother German Ameri-
cans on the ground that they had OBJ
tained naturalization under false pre-
fences. for, though they own allie
glance to the United States, they are
practising allegiance to the German
Emperor
Thus spoke a distinguished Amer
lean politician. who may be the next
President Of the United States, when
I sought his opinion OF the methods
adopted by Germany to b,adkmail the
American people into sympathizine
| with 'Kultur's' cause. Six weeks in
the United States. In constant contact
with men OF affairs of all sorts
statesmen. bankers. editors. mer-
chants. manufacturers. university
presidents and lawyers-left on my
mind the indelible impression that the
German propaganda has had but one
tangible, definite result. It has, In
| consequence OF It's vehement impu-
| dence, outraged the feelings Of Ave
sixths OF the people Of the country
who are not Of German extraction OF
'pro-GermAn' for reasons Of self-in-
terest.
For six months following the out
break OF the war. roughly up TO Feb
ruary /, the Germans waged a whirl'
wind campaign throughout the coun'
try at an expense believed to have
been not less than 1900 900 a month
But the colossal effort to stampede
American opinion, launched like @
thunderbolt with a view Of sharp anc
decisive results, Just al the German
General STAFF planned to storm Paris
in six breathless weeks. failed. Theii
hard working henchmen, from d.
Dernburg all the way to Prof. kunt
Meyer, e~x-professor Of Celtic ntera'
ture at Liverpool, talked, wrote. mis-
quoted. slandered and caJoled In vain
In the beginning Americans lis
tened with interest and with h pa
tience born OF their inherent love o
fair play. But Americans are people
OF canny perception as well as d
rugged fair mindedness. II was no
long before Il dawned upon them tina
Germany's case was not argument
but defence, whine and explanation
The righteousness with which II wa
advocated suggested first OF all a bac
conscience, and when to mere no.s'
and volume were added insolence an'
errontery, when Dernhurglsm. II
other words, took America by the han'
like a child and sought TO stun tn
German case down her throat, America
recotled-
There was danger, three months
1880 20 ~ rpFUn-
the campaign Of domestic politica
terrorization in the United States. Bu
events have marched fast since then
the Lusitania worked wonders II
America. as II happily did in Eng,an'
itself. In the direction OF aggravatin.
public temper and %stifren!ng The Gov
ernment's back.
ITO seek the Kaiser's system II
America one has TO go octopus hunt
ing.
"somebody once said that the thre
might.est examples OF organization IN
world had yet seen were the Churc
OF Rome. the Standard on Compah,
and the German army. l venture I
add a fourth-the men. women an
children OF German birth and million
Of others of German blood in tn
United States. I never anywhere en-
countered such amazing, single minded
blind unanimity. II Is a quality whicl
I fancy the Germans themselves neve
until this war believed they possessed
I, tnfects all classes. Let me cite
few examples. all characteristic.
I'm Washington lives a lady who
now that President Wilson Is a Wild
over. is, in a way, the first lady OF tn
land She, ike many thousands O
American women. spends spare tim
knitting for the Red Cross. Not Ion.
ago she suggested hat her Gcr7na'
maid, too, might occupy herself i
leisure moments with the needle
Bertha, who halls from fair West
phalia. was ~willing-on terms. Nh
dame must promise me 1t Is not 10
the hated English l sew was the as
tonishing rejoinder. That Is the Ger
man system at work.
There is a place In New York :
which society folk who give large an
ner parties are accustomed TO gn VIII"
they need extra walters. Last whit"
n TRANCE phenomenon was observed
the establishment supplied only Ger
man walters whose conversations