Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
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Swedish, Swiss and South American newspaper men, and then, before
turning on his heels to go back to his Polish palace, turned to the Americans and said: "As for you gentlemen, the best thing you can do is to tell your country to stop shipping arms and ammunition." During General Brusiloff's offensive I was invited together with other correspondents to go to the Wohlynian battlefields to see how the Germans had reorganised the Austrian front. In a little town near the Stochod River we were invited to dinner by Colonel von Luck. I sat opposite the colonel, who was in charge of the reorganisation here. Throughout the meal he made so many insulting remarks that the officer who was our escort had to change the trend of the conversation. Before he did so the colonel said: "Tell me, do they insult you in Berlin like this?" I replied that I seldom encountered such antagonism in Berlin; that it was chiefly the army which was anti-American. "Well, that's the difference between the diplomats and the army. If the army was running the government we would probably have had war with America a long time ago," he concluded, smiling sarcastically. Shortly after the sinking of the _Lusitania_ the naval propaganda bureau had bronze medals cast and placed on sale at souvenir shops throughout Germany. Ambassador Gerard received one day, in exchanging some money, a fifty mark bill, with the words stamped in purple ink across the face: |
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