American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-11-08

zone hundred million dollars !" the
kaiser repeated. and then after a mo-
ment's reflection, as though he had
beer turning over some figures in his
mind, mo, Davis, it will cost much
more than that to get Belgium back"
1t occurred to me that If the kaiser
really meant what he said on that &C.
casion, all his talk about peace with
out annexation" was obviously a myth
and that the only hope of Belgium's
redemption lay in the military defeat
of Prussia. Subsequent developments
amply. confirmed that view.
In the winter of 1916, we we're talk
ing of the sentiment in America and
the conversation turned to Won Berns-
torff.
"Von Bernstorff has been doing very
good work in your country" the kaiser
commented.
"Well, your majesty" I replied, at is
said in America that if he had not been
such a clever diplomat he would long
ago have been compelled to leave"
"From all I hear" the kaiser said,
she hasn't had a very easy time of 1t.
The American press as a whole has
been conspicuously anti-German, al
though I understand that n of your
newspaper publishers has been friend
" to us. Mr.. Hearst, for instance. has
helped our cause very much in your
country. He has been telling the truth
about affairs, which is more than most
of the other papers have been doing!'
Just before the king of Greece abdi-
Gated, the kaiser referred to the atti-
tude of the American press again.
1.-THE way the American newspapers
and the press Of the allied countries
generally are presenting the Grecian
situation to the world is absolutely
false and a d~isgracel' he declared, bit
terly. "They are entirely misrepre-
senting the facts. Mr.. Hearst is the
only n as far as 1 can find, who has
revealed the real conditions and told
the truth about them. My, I wonder
what the people have to say now that
Mr.. Hearst has finally exposed the
whole thing!r 1t was only a short
time afterwards that the king abdicat-
ed and revealed Enthusiastically which
papers had correctly interpreted the
trend of Grecian politics.
The kaiser spoke to me many times
! about the writings of William Bayard
Hale.
Have you been following Hale's ar
ticles?" he inquired. What he is
: writing about the war is excellent and
is really the best material published
He voices my sentiments exactly, anC
it would be we'll for every American tC
. follow this writer's work"
! had to confess that there was on'
American at least who was not onl!
not following Haie's writings, but ha'
never heard Of the writer, and tn
9 kaiser seemed to be somewhat dis
: pleased.
l He referred to Hale several time
L subsequently and in the meanwhile
u had ascertained that the man in ques
'e ton was the representative In Berli
of the Hearst newspapers and l sui
y s~equently learned that he had pull
lished a book called american Right
IS and British Pretensions at Sea-" whic
so explained at once to me why the kaise
was so enthusiastic about him.
In the course OF one Oh our udh
III conversations on the subject Of Amel
{. lean munitions, the kaiser paid his r.
II spects to Mr.. Schwab.
. what can one expect from Schwal
40 who is using the Bethlehem steel plar
al to work against us?" he asked. H
" of Austrian Jew extraction and woul
va work against anyone for the sake {
the money that's in i'll"
'it I'm following affairs in AmeriC
as very closely" he told me on anoth'
an occasion, before we entered the wa
L. Not all of your senators are again
us. Senator Stone. for instance,
taking a very strong neutral stand
understand. and 1t is a pity there al
OF not more like him."
Just before l left for my trip
On America In 1915, the kaiser called
me and l told him l wa leaving.
NC "Well, Davis" he said, "be caref
not to run against any mines or
Sc t~orpedoed. You'll probably be pull
az into England on your way over v
'"' understand all boats are taken the
Ell for examination" Then, with IRE
ns' his eye, he added: IF you should s
my cousin the king, in England, XII
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