New Britain herald., 1918-12-10
HEARST'S ORDERS TO
HIS WRITER'S READ
Said Majority Of People Opposed
United States Entering War
WANTED LASTING PEACE

In Message to New York American
He Outlined Instructions to Be
CabIcd 10 William B. Hale, Berlin
Correspondent.
, Washington Dec 10.-Governmen
copies of kilograms signed by William
Randolph Hearst giving instructions
regarding the policy of his neWspa-
pers and their correspondents during
the war were read into the record at
today's hearing of the senate commit
tee investigating German propaganda.
Instructions to Hale in Berlin
In a message to the New York
Am merican on February "a, 1917, Mr.
Hearst outlined instructions to be
cabled to William Bayard Hale, then
q Hearst correspondent in Berlin and
who, according to evidence recently
produced was on the German payroll
without Hearsts knowledge. Mr.
Hearst said he believed a vast major
ity of the people of America and Ger
many opposed the United States en-
tering the war and concluded I'VE
earnestly desire to employ the inf1u-
ence of our country not for the ex-
tension and protraction of the war,
but for the promotion of a just and
lasting peace"
Calls Zimmerman Note Forgery.
A message dated March 3, signed
Doctor, and addressed to s. S. Car
Valho, New York American, declared
the famous Zimmerman note in
which Germany proposed an alliance
with Mexico and Japan, and which
the Associated Press revealed to the
world, probably was a forgery pre-
pared by the attorney general.
The object of the forgery the
message said. was to frighten con-
gress into giving the president the
powers he demanded and perhaps
also into passing the espionage BILL
The Hearst message Of February "a
follows:
II firmly believe that the vast ma
jority of the people of the United
States are entirely undesirous of war
with Germany. L believe also that the
people of Germany are equally unde-
sirous Of war with the United States.
F'avors Friendship With Huns.
E'Under such circumstances I can
not see why the century old friend
ship Of the United States and Ger
many cannot be maintained and per-
petuated by the high-minded and hu-
manitarian rulers and political lead
ers of our respective countries.
I'VE in America have just celebrat-
ed the anniversary Of Washington's
birthday and this should remind us
that the friendship of Germany and /
the United States was inaugurated by
Washington and Frederick the Great,
two of the ablest and wiseSt and most
far-seeing statesmen that any nations
have possessed in the history of the
world.
MAY the statesmen of our respec-
tive countries today heed the advice
and follow the footsteps of these two
great leaders of men and builders Of
nations.
Hearst Says He Is Impartial.
1.-THE course Of my newspapers has
been fair to Germany not because
am pro- G erman any more than / am
pro-Ally. I am merely patri iotically
interested in the welfare Of my own
country and enthusiastically interested
in the progress of the world.
"I am sure that the United States
will value in the future the consist
GllL IAleIu9AAp VI o0l 1llt'1y c'0 ~ tl"'0
valued it in the past and l think that
most Americans realize that Ger
many, like France, represents in Eu-
ope a political, social and economic
progress similar to our own.
DepIores Franco German Hatred.
Americans from childhood have
been taught to regard both Germany
and France as their proven friends
We, therefore, deeply deplore the war
between these great nations which
have contributed so much to the prog
ress and civilization Of the world and
we earnestly desire to employ the in
fiuence of our country not for the eX-
tension and protraction Of the war,
but for the promotion of a just and
lasting peace"