Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-20
Germans Would Split |
France and America
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strasse Propaganda wori, is still his
task.
stiil Busy with Propaganda
There are many In America who will
remember suave gentleman named
Doctor Ahrens. The former eff of the
secret service. Flynn. remembers him.
He was Bernstorff's right.hand man in
a lot OF propaganda work. I last saw
him in New London, where he received
ments which the undersea trader
Deutschland brought to America.
Doctor Ahrens today has an office in
Wilhelmstrasse in the same building as
| Doctor Rentzau. He is still engaged in
propaganda, and his field Ia still the
American mind. He has charge of
propaganda among the American SOL
diers in occupied Germany.
The American soldiers here are for the
most part those who did the most fight
ing. This means they had been for sew
eral months In the mud and filth OF de-
I vastated France. Then they reached the
Rhinelsnd, got good beds TO sleep in,
had n rather easy time and decided that
Germany was not such bad place after
all This means. In short. that some
up here pnd there between American n
soldiers and German civilians.
one evening I overheard "a doughboy
talking to German girl. He knew
German and was saying: You know
we came into the war to whip the
Kaiser. Now the Kaiser Is gone and
the war is over. Let's be friends, you
and l." Nothing unpatriotic was in
tended by that man.
right hand TO have wilhelm back on the
throne. will tell you how Germany must
have governmental organization jus
like that Of the United States, the bes
in the world
hut it is among the doughboys tina,
propagandista do most work. and ever,
German is a potential propagandlst
They talk to tho doughboys about theiI
cousins In America. and how they ar,
going across the ocean after peace 4,
made. They end up by some new stor,
about the French. Sometimes tina
doughboy has his petty grievance
against n Frenchman, and thus tn
grievance grows.
This work goes on increasingly. Th
American secret service Is day after da
running down evil stories about tn
French which turn out 20 amount I
nothing. II has reached such a stag
that saturday two ardent American
Germans were told that the next goo
thing they said to an American soldie
about America would get them into jail
The German propaganda among I'll
Americans against the French Is jus
like their campaign in America agains
the English only a little less open, bu
with hundred times the number {
agents. Some official or priest will hea
something against the French or unde
orders make up something out of I'll
, whole cloth and will pass it along--an
1t goes long way.
The American doughhoy who goe
, back home anti-Frcnch will be prot
J lem. and 1t is TO he feared that III
number will not be small.
German propaganda is two-side'
Germans In the territory occupied b
the French, preach night and day no
! the Americans are fraternizIng with II
\ Germans and becoming their friend
They ell the Frenchmen that Amer
can doughboys love Germany MOI
than they do France. and how Amer
I cans go to church with them. They r.
: peat that Americans take dinner at the
homes and they love to repeat the stor
: that American soldiers are becomir
I engaged to marry their daughters.