New Britain herald., 1919-05-24
TEXAS WOMAN
 SPURNS HUNS
 OFFER OF FAME
Protcge of Non HcrtIing, Promised Political Power, Leaves
 Germany.

To be protege of Chancellor von Hertling, and a student of surgery and medicine at the University of Munich, and to be translated by the eXlgencles of war to q French hos pital where, as a French patriot, she applied the things learned in the German university toward returning wounded French soldiers to health and strength is the strange experi- ence of Dr. Violette Berger
 pr. Berger has just returned from overseas, where she has been work ing for the American Red Cross, both in the hospitals and amongst the children of France.
 Her Home Is in Texas.
 It was eight years ago that Dr. Der ger, the daughter of Colonel Lewis H Orleman. T.. $. A., retired, who for many years was the principal of Peekskill Military Academy, went to Germany to complete her course in surgery. She had with her letters of introduction to Chancellor von Hert- ling, who was then professor of phil osophy and metaphysics in the Uni- versity of Munich. He immediately took a great interest in her advising her to become a candidate for the examinations. In speaking of this pr. Berger says:
 No one could have been better to me than Herr von Hertling. He in Vited me to his home and was most cordial in his expressions of interest"
 Offered Place in Politics.
 Dr Berger told of the quick trans- ton which took place when Germans in high places discovered that she was not a German enthusiast.
 Tt was the day after the burning and sacking of Luneville, one of the first Belgian cities destroyed by the German army" she began. T was the guest at dinner party where Von Hertling and a number of other German intellectuals were present. I expressed myself quite freely on the inhumanity of the Belgian invasion.
 ''The matter was dropped, but the next day von Hertling called on me and asked me if I could not be made to feel the same way toward Ger many, and to give her the same lov, as I did Belgium and France. IT. said to me: My dear child, you vii get much more out of life and out c: your profession if you will only re, main here with us in Germany, anH 
 Through your writings and because of the great forward movement of the women of the world, we could make you a great political factor
 1T told him that it would be quite impossible; that I could never be in sympathy either with Germany's autocratic governm ent or with her military despotsm. V"
 It is needless to say that the vcrY next day Dr. Berger received a notice that her previous education was not deemed sufficient for her to be al lowed to pass her final medical eX- aminations. pr. Berger was sent for and was forced to have her finger prints taken. and was registered as an alien enemy
 Serves Red Cross.
 In the course of her studies she had written a number of treatises, and had taken several volumes of notes on her work in children's men tai diseases, on fracture work, and on new discoveries with the N,ray. These were taken from her. A per sonal appeal to von Hertling succeed ed in getting her through from Hol- land to England. where she joined her sister pr. Daisy M. O. Robinson, who was at that time with the Brit ish Red Cross, but later gave her services to the American Red Cross in Paris,
 With Americas entrance into the war pr. Berger offered herself to our army, but the American govern ment was not taking women in the m edical corps. So she went to Pro- lessor Gauche in the St. Louis hos oF there she went to the American Red Cross, serving under pr. Lucas, who 1 was in charge of the children's bu-