Category: History - American
When, in the summer of 1914, the loaded dice fell for war, Germany began a campaign overseas as thoughtfully forecasted as that first headlong flood which rolled to the Marne. World-domination was the Prussian objective. It is quite natural that the United States, whose influe...
When, in the summer of 1914, the loaded dice fell for war, Germany began a campaign overseas as thoughtfully forecasted as that first headlong flood which rolled to the Marne. W...
2. CHAPTER IIThe terrain--Lower New York--The consulates--The economic problem of supplying Germany and checking supplies to the Allies--The diplomatic problem of keeping America's friendshi...
3. CHAPTER IIIA fanatic student in the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia, threw a bomb at a visiting dignitary, and the world went to war. That occurred on the sunny forenoon of June 28, 1914. The...
4. CHAPTER IVThe coördination of a nation's fighting forces depends upon that nation's system of communication. In no previous war in the world's history has a general staff known more of th...
5. CHAPTER VUnderneath the even surface of American life seethed a German volcano, eating at the upper crust, occasionally cracking it, and not infrequently bursting a great gap. When an er...
6. CHAPTER VIIn a narrative which attempts so far as possible to proceed chronologically, it becomes necessary at this point to introduce Paul Koenig. For, on September 15, 1914, he sent an...
7. CHAPTER VIIThroughout August, 1914, it was comparatively easy for Germans in America who wished to respond to the call of the Fatherland to leave American shores. A number of circumstances...
8. CHAPTER VIIIA bomb is an easy object to manufacture. Take a section of lead pipe from six to ten inches long, and solder into it a partition of thin metal, which divides the tube into two c...
9. CHAPTER IXIn the check-book of the military attaché was a counterfoil betraying a payment of $1,000 made on March 27, 1915, to "W. von Igel (for A. Kaltschmidt, Detroit)." That stub was p...
10. CHAPTER XThere was a suggestion in the newspapers of dates immediately following Paul Koenig's arrest that the authorities had been lax in allowing the Germans to have later access to th...
11. CHAPTER XIOn January 3, 1915, there was an explosion on board the munitions ship _Orton_, lying in Erie Basin, a part of New York harbor. On February 6 a bomb was found in the cargo of th...
12. CHAPTER XIILabor produced munitions. The hands of labor could be frightened away from work by explosions, their handiwork could be bombed on the railways, the wharves, the lighters, and th...
13. CHAPTER XIIIIn the eyes of the German Admiralty the _Lusitania_ was the symbol of British supremacy on the seas. There were larger ships flying the Prussian flag, but one of them lay in her...
14. CHAPTER XIVGerman law in America--Waetzoldt's reports--The British blockade--A report from Washington--Stopping the chlorine supply--Speculation in wool--Dyestuffs and the _Deutschland_--P...
15. CHAPTER XVDr. Bertling--The _Staats-Zeitung_--George Sylvester Viereck and _The Fatherland_--Efforts to buy a press association--Bernhardi's articles--Marcus Braun and _Fair Play_--Plans...
16. CHAPTER XVIThe Society for Advancement in India--"Gaekwar Scholarships"--Har Dyal and _Gadhr_--India in 1914--Papen's report--German and Hindu agents sent to the Orient--Gupta in Japan--Th...
17. CHAPTER XVIIGermany learned during President Roosevelt's administration that the Monroe Doctrine was not to be tampered with. The United States stood squarely upon a policy of "hands off La...
18. CHAPTER XVIIIOn January 22, 1917, President Wilson set forth to the Senate of the United States his ideas of the steps necessary to secure world peace. On the same day Count von Bernstorff s...