New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-07-27
In Inner Chamber.

In Inner Chamber.
The fact that Dr. Hale edited the
speech came out in the course of the
examination a few days ago of a. man
who was closely associated with Hale
during the period that he was the
Sub rosa" editor of the German prop
uganda sheets. This mans testimony
is substantiated by ether witnesses
who have been examined by the at
torney general, the testimony dis
closing DR.. Hale as a member of the
elmer council of the paganda
machine, of which DR.. Dernburg. DR..
Heinrich Albert, DR.. Carl A. Fueher,
and Captain Ewald Hecker, the Red
Cross spy, were prominent members.
In the course of his own examination
by the attorney general, DR.. Hale ad-
mitted attending the meetings of the
propa gandists, and named number
of other American citizens who, he
said, attended. George Sylvester Vie
reck, he said, was always present,
while Julius P. Meyer, former vice
director of the Hamburg American
line, attended some.
The German government, according
to the witness who was associated with
DR.. Hale, employed Hale for many
reasons, one of the principal ones
being that, in the opinion of Berlin, DR..
Hale stood very close to President
Wilson. The witnss said that Hale's
office, at 1923 Broadway, which was
the headquarters of the propaganda,
was facetiously referred to by those in
the office of Hale as the Kitchen en-
trance to the White House"
The witness referred to what he
termed the "trend' of the propaganda
during the period he was associated
with Hale. That trend he said was to
cause an alarm in regard to the
possibility of the Japanse invasion and
the necessity of Mexican Intervention
in some form or other"
in connection with the sinking of
the Lusitania, DR.. Dernburg delivered
a speech, did he not 2" the witness was
asked in the course of his eXamina-
ton.
Yes, he delivered a speech at the
Hollenden hotel in Cleveland. Ohio"
WAS that speech delivered to any
body else before DR.. Dernburg deliv-
cred it?'
THAT speech passed through my
hands at 10 o'clock on the morning of
May s, 1915. 1t was delivered in
CIeNC1dnu DIT L y ClOCh Ill Tie dllcIuOO1l
of the same day. 1t passed through
my hands after being carefully edited
and b-edited by DR.. Hale, the sub
heads being written in his own hand.
l delivered the instructions, a special
order to the printers"
who printed Dernburg's speech?"
Hale Censored Proofs.
THE American Press association.
The speech was sent by messenger in
what is technically known as takes
and / went to the printers about IL
o clock on May to read the proofs in
galley form. There were certain minor
corrections which were made then and
there, and new proofs W. \ Dr.
William Bayaru Hale in his office in
Room 613 at 1928 Broadway, where
DR.. Hale had remained for the ex-
press purpose of receiving the proofs
and O. K. ing them"
The witness said that he was not in
the possession of information which
would how that DIR. Hale and not DR..
Dernburg was the author of the
speech. He knew, he added, that Hale
edited it and wrote the sub-heads, but
was not in a position to testify as to
the authorship.
I'm the course of your employment
is it true that you observed ali the