Category: Biographies
Anyone who has lived some time in the United States will feel with Goethe that "America is better off than our own Continent." Owing to the almost perfect autarchy existing there, grave economic problems never really arise. Nowhere else, during the whole course of my various d...
At midsummer, 1916, the political lull desired by Colonel House actually set in. The Colonel betook himself to one of the beautiful lakes of New Hampshire, in the far north of t...
7. Chapter 7A few days after the dispatch of the last American Note concerning the _Lusitania_ incident, on July 21st, 1915, Mr. Lansing asked me to call on him. He then told me that the Am...
11. Chapter 11Before I received official notice of the opening of the unrestricted U-boat campaign, I had a further interview with Mr. House, concerning the peace activities of the President,...
6. Chapter 6On August 6th, 1914, the Government of the United States proposed to all the belligerent Powers that the laws of war at sea, as laid down in the Declaration of London of 1909, s...
12. Chapter 12After the rupture of diplomatic relations, I entrusted the care of our interests to the Swiss Legation, and from that time I did not speak a word to any American official except...
8. Chapter 8In Germany, and particularly before the Committee of the National Assembly, the American Government has been reproached with _mala fides_ for having unnecessarily reopened the _...
9. Chapter 9On the 24th March the unarmed passenger-ship _Sussex_ was torpedoed without warning, and several Americans lost their lives. The first information about this incident was so vag...
5. Chapter 5Immediately after the outbreak of war, our cruisers in foreign waters were cut off from their base of operations, and the German Reservists in North and South America were preve...
2. Chapter 2When I received the news of the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, I was dining with the Spanish Ambassador at the Metropolitan Club in Washington. Signor Riano and I were no...
3. Chapter 3As I mentioned in the first chapter, it was to be expected that public opinion in America would range itself overwhelmingly on the side of the Entente. As a result of the violat...
1. Chapter 1Anyone who has lived some time in the United States will feel with Goethe that "America is better off than our own Continent." Owing to the almost perfect autarchy existing ther...
4. Chapter 4In the preceding chapter I mentioned that Dr. Dernburg's plan for raising a loan in the United States had failed. Later the direction of all our economic and financial affairs p...