Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-04

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nothing but. satisfaction over being
out of the war.
| Germany Had Sympathy
| There, was, in the early months of
the war, no lack of sympathy for
| Germany. Americans as mass did
| not accept at face value Britains
| loud prOteStatiOnS that it's entrance
into the war was an act Of unparal-
leled devotion to the cause of Justice
| Americans knew from their school
| books. of Britain brand of Justice
| And there was a willingness to ac-
cept Germ4ny's claims that she went
to war Iy to protect herself from
Russia, for it was sA.plain that Russia
had most to do with setting the match
to the; European powder house.
The fact of the matter is that in
| the beginning Americans did not look
| either upon one side or the other as
wrong. Inevitably, however, their
sympathies tended to veer toward the
underdog. and the underdog in 1914
| and 1915 was the Allied side. This sym
pathy. with the underdog became all
the more pronounced as France was
devastated and despoiled by war, for
this country had a real bond of SYM
pathy with the French dating back
to the Revolution. The Revolution
was won only because of the help free
| ly extended by Lafayette and his
compatriots
GerInany'S BIuntler
The work of the French and Brit
ish propagandists in their subtle in
| filtration or fertilization of the Am
| crican, mass mind was made easier
by the brusque, laundering diplomacy
of Gefmahy;*for the last German dip
lomat worthy of the name died with
Bismarck.
Twenty years ago this week Ger
many wrote terse note bitterly pro-
| testing %the increasing sale of arma-
| mcntS,,: munitions and cOntraband of
war (Which. meant virtually every
thing)@. by Americans to Britain and
France; She forgot her diplomatic
manners. to the extent of making veil
cd thEeats: Thaht was the German
way. Berlin carried on its diplomacy
and pt0Raga lIda- in the United States
like its military campaign in. Belgium
Thefe AWcrel Tother factors at work;
nO IcSS U0ClS1NG. L ne pCdCc SOCIcLlcS
were sincerely but pathetically active
but they. could not offset the impress
sions made upon the public mind by
the appeals made in behalf of the va,
rious war charities. Americans were
contributing heavily to the feeding of
Belgians, to the relief of Armenians
Russians, Polish, Serbians, even of
Germans Austrians and Hungarians.
Manufactured Atrocities
In their zeal to collect funds for
the American Relief Commission in
Belgium, directed by Herbert Hoov-
er, the orators painted the German
occupation in the colors provided in
| endless quantities by the Allied pro
pagandiSts. They told of Belgian
babies on German bayonets, Of whole
village populations whose hands were
chopped off, of poisoned wells, of VIC
lated women. We know from the
memoirs of British intelligence agents
that these "atrocity stories" were
manufactured from whole cloth, as
was the purely imaginary story of
use of soldier dead in sOap-making.
legend that gained wide credence in
the United States.
Meanwhile, American bankers were
pouring out loans to the Allies and
American manufacturers were getting
rich selling munitions and supplies to
the fighting armies of Britain and
France. The American farmer was
getting the best prices in years for
his wheat, his cattle. Economics were
playing a powerful part in swinging
the United States into active parti-
cipation on the Allied side, just as
economic had fomented the war.
Germany and Austria, could not be
the customers of the United States
the Allies were, becauhe of the block
ade imposed on their shipping by AL
lied fleets and the other interferen-
ces set up against American COM
merce with the Central Powers Twen
ty years ago this week one of the
last of her converted cruisers, Prinz
Eitel Friedrich had to take refuge
in Norfolk and be interned because
of the vigilance of Allied cruisers.
The Big Questions
without the barrageS of propafan-
da laid down upon it increasingly by
the belligerents, the United States
would not have entered the most re-
cent European war. It was two years
after the sinking of the Lusitania-
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