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One more country to fight; what difference would it make to Germany, especially one that could make so little showing? You have no army. Your navy could do no more than England is already doing. We are at present cut off from your supplies as much as if we were at war with you. Finally, the German-Americans would put the brakes on you, now that another Presidential election is approaching.
Flabbergasted, the "German-Americans" retired; they were confused and disgusted by this higher-up outbreak of unneutrality it overwhelmed them that citizens of the United States should not remain neutral in the dispute between the United States and Germany. All day the campus was in ferment.
During the course of one of their conversations Zimmermann said the United States would never go to war with Germany, "because the German-Americans would revolt." That was one of Zimmermann's hobbies.
A number of German Reserve officers domiciled in America succeeded, despite the close watch maintained by England on the seas, in effecting their return to the Fatherland, thanks to a secret bureau in New York, organized by German-Americans, which provided them with false or forged American passports.
He believed that such a ruling would immediately alienate the sympathy of a large section of the United States and make our Southern Senators and Congressmen enemies of Great Britain. Sir Edward was also completely informed of the extent to which the German-Americans and the Irish-Americans were active and he was familiar with the aims of American pacifists.
Zimmermann told other American officials and foreign correspondents that President Wilson would not be able to bring the United States to the brink of war, because the "German-Americans were too powerful." But Zimmermann was not making these statements upon his own authority.
I wish all the German-Americans were as loyal as he is." "Did one of the guards shoot Lena?" Hugh inquired. "No," replied Mr. Cook. "Karl and I asked them all, and not one of them had even seen her. It's a peculiar thing." "I wonder if our friend the fake detective could have done it." "He wasn't the feller you caught, was he?" asked Riley. "No," said Bob. "Our man had whiskers, didn't he, Hugh?"
Even before the war, we in Germany entirely failed to understand the difficult and delicate position of the American of German origin. And during the war this was more than ever the case. The question of the "German-Americans" has never been dealt with tactfully in Germany. Our greatest mistake was to expect too much from them.
When Germany beats England there will not be an Englishman left to tell how it happened." Then, leaning over the railing of the ship, the officer pointed to the setting sun, and lo, right out of the sea, sailing into our sight, came a fleet of English merchantmen, laden with wheat, and the purser said: "By God's help, England shall not starve." German-Americans Who Vilify England
His excellency is always interested in German-Americans. It may be that he wishes to ask what the future is there in America. We have more in Dreiberg than we can reasonably take care of." "In the prisons?" The officer laughed. "There and elsewhere." "Is that right?" asked Grumbach, now thoroughly on guard.
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