Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 28, 2025
Men came to Germany with letters of introduction from leading German-Americans here, with the expressed purpose of trying to get Germany to stop its propaganda here. What they did do was to assure Germany that the German-Americans would never permit the United States to be drawn into the war. Because of their high recommendations from Germans here some of them had audiences with the Kaiser.
Her plans of intrigue were directed towards the use of German-Americans or German spies to assist in the return of German officers from this country, to hinder the transport of Canadian troops, to destroy communications, and to hamper the output of munitions for the Entente by strikes, incendiary fires, and explosions.
A roar of shouts and hysterical yells shook the building. "I am sixty years old, but I'll fight in the trenches with my four sons beside me and you men will do the same. Am I right?" Again came a roar that could be heard across Chicago. "We all make mistakes. I do nothing but make mistakes, but I'm sorry. I have said hard things about public men, especially about German-Americans, but I'm sorry."
In those days an American minister at Berlin was likely to find his personal relations with the German minister of foreign affairs cordial, but his official relations continuous war. Hardly a day passed without some skirmish regarding the rights of ``German-Americans'' in their Fatherland. The old story constantly recurred in new forms.
Two German-Americans who had been intimate friends of Holleben promptly wrote to Colonel Roosevelt protesting, not against the facts as stated, but against the use that was made of them. Both correspondents stated that they had been told of the interview at the time by Holleben.
Many German-Americans are warm friends of woman suffrage; but the editors of "Puck," it seems, are not.
Since England was the chief enemy in the way of German world domination, the German-Americans laid themselves out to render the English odious here.
"The Morgan group certainly had to make two great concessions: first, that the proceeds of the new loan shall not be employed for the purchase of munitions, and second, that Russia shall be excluded from the loan; only by these means could they overcome the opposition of the German-Americans and the Jews. Our Jewish friends here are in no easy position.
The very kindnesses of the pretty, plump German woman who was her daughter-in-law startled and repelled her, as did the familiar, easy, loud-voiced affection of the blond young German-Americans who were her grandchildren. Even her own son, Hiram, become half Teutonic through the influence of his business and social relations among the Germans, seemed alien and remote to her.
I told him that we had five hundred and one thousand lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising; and I also called his attention to the fact that no German-Americans making use of the American passports which they could easily obtain, were sailing for Germany by way of Scandinavian countries in order to enlist in the German army.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking