The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-08
Throughout The Early Days of The VA, Chancellor oon
Befhn'ann-HollUog Bitterly Opposed Don Ttpdz and
His Submarine Warfare Because He Knew That The
Tinted STATES Would Neuer Submit TO plans De-
cided Upon

Never In history had neutral ma
ZION indicted another as the United
states did Germany In its first I.ust-
fsnia note without immediately going
10 war. Because the foreign office
feared the reaction IL might have upon
the people. the newspapers were not
permitted 10 publish the text until tho
press bureaus Of the navy and the for
elgn office had modified the editorial
writers and planned n publicity cam
paign TO follow the notes publication.
but the navy and foreign office could
not agree on what should be done.
me navy wanted to ignore Wilson.
NayaI officers laughed at President
WILSON'S impertfnence. and when the
foreign ONCE sent TO the Admiralty for
All data in possession of the navy de-
partment regarding the sinking OF the
Lusitania the navy refused to acknowi-
edge the request
During this time I was In constant
touch with the foreign office and the
American embassy Frequently went
TO the navy department, but was al
ways told they had nothing to say.
When 1t appeared. however, that there
might be break in diplomatic rela-
tons over the Lusitania the kaiser
called the chancellor TO great head
quarters for conference, Mean while
Germany delayed her reply to the
American note because the navy and
foreign once were still a loggerhea de-.
ON the thirty-first of May Won Jagow
permitted me TO quote him in an inter
view saying:
America can hardly expect us to
-ElNe- III aEY TanarS at-egE- at&resaf-
10 night our enemy. II il n prlnci-
pie with us to defend ourselves in
every possible way. am sure
that Americans will be reasonable
enough to believe that our two
countries cannot discuss the Lusi-
tAnia matter until both have the
same basis OF facts
The American people were demand
fng an answer from Germany and be-
cause the 'wo branches of the gov
eminent could not agree on what
Thould be said Won Jagow had to do
something 10 gain time Germany,
therefore. submitted in her reply Of
the twenty eighth OF May certain facts
about the Lugitania for the constdara-
ton or the American Governme nt with
regard TO the demands made In con
rection with the sinking of the Lust /
tania until a reply WAS received from
ne American government" After the
rote was dispatched the chasn1 be-
tween the navy and foreign Office was I
wv. tfAdt' tFFtt am "a S@AfIDF Gerard, (
who went TO the foreign officc dafiy |
- try TO convince tho offctats thnt +
they were antae onizing thc whole
world by their attitude on the Tu.l-
tania question. returned 70 the en-
t4assy one day after Il conference with {
zimmerman and began 20 prerare
q scrapbook OF cartooes and clippings
from american newspapers Two
secretaries ware Pat 20 work pastinR
the comments, interviews editorials /
ara cartoons rejecting American op,n-t
Ton IN the scraphook Although the
f'err1an foreign office had a big press
GepartT ent, Its efforts were devoted
more 10 furnishing the outside world
with German views than with collect /
ing outside opinions for the irforma-
ton OF the German government, Re
feying that this information would he D.
OF irnmessurabie benefit 70 the Ger
man diplomats in sounding the depths
Or public sentiment in America Ger
ard delivered the hoax to Won Ia et,ss4-
personally
CONFERENCES AT
GREAT HEADQUARTERS.
In he meantime numerous confer
erces were held at great headquarters