Arizona republican., 1915-08-21
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the conditions set forth in that let ter I explained to him that we were not in sympathy with his attacks upon the administration and espe- cially upon the president, and that we would lend no substantial sup port to the publication, notwithstand ing any claim which it might other wise be entitled because of its pro- German attitude unless we could have a sufficient control over its tpcks.
 'I did this notwithstanding our de- sire to assist a publication that would place the merits of the German point If view before the American public. Mr Viereck declined to permit his policy to be in any way influenced by our wishes and much that he has said in his paper has been against our rigorous and persistent protest
 As to tEe so called German infor-
 nation service and the alleged news
 paper propaganda; It is not true that
 an effort has at any time been secretly
 made to influence American public
 opinion. The existence of the German
 information service was publicity an
 nounced to all the leading newspapers
 of the country upon it's inauguration, in october last and has become well known to the public since It was founded for the purpose as then stated
 of counterac cting the partisan news ser vice that up to that time had been com
 ing via England, in which the happen ings Of the war and the conditions in European countries were being grossly
 misrepresented to the injury of Ger
 many. The embassy, which has neu-
 tral and legitimate interest that reli-
 able information regarding Germany
 should be made available to the press
 of this country, has always openly as
 sisted that service by giving it access
 to authentic news items and official
 reports.
 Germany IS and has been avoWcdly
 and anxiously seeking and will con-
 tinue to seek for it's cause the moral
 support of America and of the other neutral countries of the world. It be- lieves in the justice of it's cause and will leave no effort untried to place the merits of it's cause before the world, not withstanding the stupendous ob- stacle it will be required to overcome in order to secure a fair hearing at the bar of enlightened public opinion. With every means of cable and almost every other form of communication in the hands of it's enemies, with all the pow erful financial interests of the country arrayed against it. with a press bureau unequalied in the annals of history for efficiency and imagination working night and day, year in and year out
 manufacturing the most revolting tales
 of atrocities to poison the public and l fail to see anything reprehensible in before the people whose friendship it has had in the past and whose good opinion and sympathetic interest it :e anxious to retain.
 This effort it has made ill the open and in this it will persevere nothwith- way by this latest attempt to distort it's motives and to attribute malign purposes to legitimate and praise worthy undertakings. For every dol lar that it has expended in advancing that praiseWorthy object it is safe 70 say that a thousand dollars have been i expended by our enemies in subsidiz- | ing the sources of information by means Of garbled censored cable re- channels that are open to them through their control of the news, their vast expenditures and the far reaching if nancial interests that are behind them It is because we are frankly solicitous