Evening star., 1917-01-11
SPEECH BY GERARD
CORRECTLY QUOTED
Said Relations Between United
States and Germany Never
Were Better.
WINS PRAISE AND BLAME

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, January IL. wireless to the
Associated Press via Sayville. N. Y
with reference to the message sent by
the State Department at Washington
to Ambassador Gerard asking for in
formation on his speech at the banquet
given in his honor Saturday night by
tho American Association of Commerce
and Trade. II can be stated that the
ambassadors remarks were quoted cor
rectly in the dispatches forwarded to
the United States. The report sent out
by the Overseas News Agency quoted
Che ambassador as saying:
Never since the beginning of the
Gar have the relations between Ger
many and the United States been so
cordial as now"
Never Better in Past.
Tho ambassador is also quoted as
having said:
AT no time since the foundation of
TIE German empire have the relations
between Germany and the United States
been better than they are today"
The speaker avoided any reference
To the other powers in this connection
and confined himself to statement on
the present friendly relations between
the two governments. His remark was
receiveI with hearty applause by most
OF the Germans present and has been
cited with approval by the newspapers
with few exceptions. The Associated
fress is informed that IL was welcomed
10 high quarters.
ambassador Gerard was received
Monday by Chancellor Won Bethmann
Hollweg for half hours discussion of
German-American relations.
Speech Favorably Regarded.
LONDON. January 1.-THE Times
Amsterdam correspondent sends what
ne describes as an inspired Berlin
Telegram printed in the Frankfurter
zeitung. in which Ambassador Gerard's
reference to the German leaders In his
speech at the banquet of the American
association of Commerce and Trade are
declared to have been a compliment
and In which pan-German criticism is
condemned. The telegram SAYS:
-Pan-Germans see ghosts when they
display such anxiety about the under
standing pending with the United
States by which ruthless submarine
warfare may be avoided. 1t is declared
mat a majority of Germans wish for
good relations with the United States,
and would rejoice il an agreement were
reached on armed merchantmen"
The dispatch adds, the correspondent
says, that the assumption of Count Won
Heventlow in the Tages Zeitung that the
dinner was in celebration of the at
tainment by the United States of its
political aims is an exaggeration both
Of the occasion and of what is now be-
Ing negotiated between Germany and
the United States The words armed
Merchantmen" and now being nego-
dated" are emphasized by spaces be-
tween the letters.
:: Compliment, But Misplaced.
AMSTERDAM. via London, January
IA Berlin dispatch to the Dusseldorf
General Anzeiger says that well in
formed political circles are inclined to
ragard the much criticised remarks of
Ambassador Gerard in regard to the
men at the head of the German govern
rffent as a misplaced compliment 70
the statesmen in question. The dis
patch adds:
1.-The former American policy OF in
terference'was only possible as long AS
Germany put up with it, 1t is believed
In the aforesaid political circles that
such American action could not, for
good reasons, continue as successful as
Il was previously. 1t is also believed
that in the future, when important diff
ferences arise between America and
Germany there can hardly be such
great friction as has been the case