The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-15
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interests,
The committee summarizes the activ-
tiles Of the German and other Genital
European governments in this country
before the war, reviewing the activities,
already familiar to the country, OF Count
Won Bernstorff, formerly German Am
bassador. DR.. Dernburg, Meyer Ger
hardt, Capts. Won Papan and Boy Ed.
DIR. Heinrich Albert, Paul Koenig and
others. 1t tells Of the vast sums spent
to influence American opinion, the at
tempts to corner the markets In NUM-
lions and shipping and the various pro-
pagands justifying German frightfulness
and such acts as the sinking OF the Lu-
sta MIA.
The committee describes the organi-
cation of the German Information bur
eau which Issued news" favorable to
the German cause and provided It. free
to American newspapers. From 500 to
500 newspapers were supplied by the
service. 1t was cooperated closely With
the publication of the Fdtherldnd, the
Viereck weekly in New York.
The effort by DR.. Dernburg and DR.
Albert to buy a daily newspaper in New
York and their ultimate success In pur-
chasing the Evening Mai and placing
editor Is merely alluded to In passing
Dernburg, the committee states. was
never a diplosatic agent of Germany.
Favored Irish Freedom.
Besides the German news service. the
bureau maintained various publications
devoted TO Irish freedom. Part Of the
system was to enlist the college profess
sors In fR"or OF Germany. and the COM
mittee says there IL a record of eminent
professors and teachers who wrote and
lectured for It.
Another propaganda effort was to con-
vince the Jews In America that mas
much as Germany was fighting Russia
and as Russia had always oppressed the
Jews. the Jews In America ought to SYM
pathize with Germany This particular
work was in charge of DR.. Strauss. 1t
is said the German Government up to
June 81, 1918, had spent on press propa-
ganda $7S6.000, and in addition about
Sl.700,000 In buying and handling the
New. York Evening Mail Germany's
consuls were supplied with matter by
Won Bernstorff, and the committee be-
lieves the aggregate amount spent Is
much greater than that which can be
proved. A San Francisco bureau sent
large quantities OF literature into
Mexico.
Through the sayville wireless station
news and Information was constantly
passing between this country and Ger
many and a great deal OF the current
information concerning war happenings
that went to make up the German In
formation service was received in this
way. When the war began the Germans
controlled wireless plants at Sayville
and Tuckerton, y. j., through which
communications were forwarded to vari-
GUS centres for distribution in Central
and South America and the West indies.
A chief German method OF propaganda
was moving pictures. A company was
organized under German control and a
scheme devised to smuggle films into the
United States through neutral countries.
as q result OF which some OF the German
agents were sentenced to terms OF i'm
prisonment. Nevertheless. many films
were brought over and considerable dis
tribution was obtained.
An effort was made ito interest the
Hearst Film Service in handling all of
the films obtained and produced by this
company. but the proposition was not
consummated," the report states.
Referring to particular people who
were useful in the German propaganda,
the report says: The most important
and far reaching OF the efforts made by
the German Government and Its SYM
pathizers was the Organization OF what
was known as the American Embargo
Conference, which was organized in the
summer of 1915"
The report deals with the organiza-
ton Of the embargo movement to pre-
vent American supplies being cent to