New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-30
Hale Puts


O. K. on Proofs
According to Mr.. Hale's instructions
galley proofs were struck on ana sent
bv messenger TO Mr.. Hale at his once
between noon and l o'clock on that
same day. Mr.. Hale read these proofs
and returned them 10 the printer WIN
his 80. X :.
The member of Mr.. Hale's staff IN
charge of this work had invited me TO
! lunch with him at q restaurant on
Fortv-fourth Street. He told me at
/ luncheon he would have to go back 70
| the American Press Association TO read
| the mage proof of the speech, so that
/ it could beprinted and gotten into the
! sftsrnoon mails. While we were SIT
/ ting AT the table he was called to the
| telephone. He came back, saying he
had TO 90 over to the printers and tna'
7 should wait for him. In about three
quarters of an hour he returned. Later
! in the afternoon he was called to the
telephone and informed by the fore
man of the printing department that
the sheet had been printed and de-
livered TO the German Information Ser,
vice Offices, at 30 East Forty-second
Street, for distribution.
How Mr.. Hale received DR.. Dern-
burg's notorious speech, defending the
crime which had appalled, the world,
before il was delivered in Cleveland, |
do not know. No more can ! explain
how Dir. Hale, writing from Berlin a
month before the German Admiralty,
on January 81, 1917, announced the re-
sumption of unrestricted U-boat war
fare in "The New York American" OF
January /, 1917, was tempted to pre-
dict that a Gordon of U-boats can
starye out England in from three to
six months"
Mr.. Hale, through the Hearst news
napers. promulgated the Teutonic jus
tifcation of Unrestricted submarine
warfare. He echoed the thin sophistry
by which the Huns excused wanton
high sea murder. He dared to reflect,
with scarce yelled sneers and con-
tempt, upon his own governments pol
lev in regard TO this lawless murder OF
. iLnocents.
Even at the hour when the German
Admiralty was planning TO violate its
solemn pledge and resume unrestricted
submarine warfare, in "The New York
American" of January l, lsl7-a
month before tire German government
announced its intentions-Mr, Hale,
with questionable prescience and with
frank appreciation, predicted the starv-
ing If England in three to six months
by submarines. He said;
Summing up the daily activities Of
German ana Austrian submarines in
the last year. it is plain that these
terrors have wrought havoc beyond the
comprehension OF American newspaper
readers.
Zone is almost tempted to predict
that a Gordon Of C-boats can starve out
England in three 70 six months.
"lf, as the English Minister Of Agri-
culture recently was reported having
said. the war will be won on the corn
fields and implanted acreage OF Eng
land, that experiment is likely to prove
a beautiful chimera. for long before
she will be able 10 turn her tennis
courts and cricket fields into fruitful
acres, German submarines might be
able to close every port of the island.
1t would be just retribution for the
paper blockade row carried on against
/ Germany.
I Again Uses
Hearst Papers
/ In "The New York American" of jan
uary 4, 1917, in writing of the answer
| Of the Allies 10 the German peace offer.
Mr.. Hale predicted that the war would
| probably end in stalemate:
"The populace views the answer Of