Face to Face with Kaiserism

murder which has always remained deep in the consciousness of every Am

to sink the Lusitania would be made. The Foreign Office, no doubt, acquainted him with the new policy. Von Tirpitz, then actual head of the Navy Department and virtual head of the whole navy, openly showed his approval of the act, and t

of international law; but when the question of submarine warfare was to be determined, the consultation was usually at the Great General Headquarters. At these meetings von Tirpitz or the navy presented their views and the Great General Staf

not have sunk the Lusitania, that no gentleman would have killed so many women and children. Yet he never disapproved the order. Other boats were sunk thereafter in the same manner and only by chance was the loss of life smaller when the Arabic was torpedoed. It is argued that, had the Emperor considered beforehand how many non-combatants would be killed, he would not have given the order t

t to a struggling death of agony in the sea, the peaceful men and women and children passengers of the Lusitania, may ever remain a col

ds of those now our enemies, but how can any American clasp in friendship the hand of Germans who ap

o leave, I sent a secretary to see the head of one of the largest banks in Germany, a personal friend, to ask him, in case we should leave, to take for safe-keeping into his bank our silver,

d. Consequently the one feeling of Germany was of rejoicing, believing indeed that victory was near, that the "damned Yankees" would be so scared that they would not dare travel on British ships, that the submarine war would be a great success, that France and Engl

h he saw, even then, would completely turn in the end the sympathies of America to the Entente Allies. And there were others,-among the intellectuals, and, especially, among the merchants of Hamburg and

is the greatest German defeat of all the war. Its conseque

a reign of physical terror. This class believes that to rule one must terrorise. The Kaiser himself referring to the w

ng terrorised? If another nation murdered or outraged your women, your children, would it cause you to cringe in submission or would you fight to the last? If you would fight yourselves, what is there in

he psychology of the Germans in other parts of Germany at this moment, but with the exception of the one Cabinet Minister aforementioned, and expressions of regret from certain merchants and intellectuals, it canno

poison gas, but first the newspapers of Germany were carefully filled with official statements saying the British and French had used this unfair means. Coincidentally with these reports the German army was trying by this dastardly innovation to break

munitions and supplies, but as Prince von Buelow once remarked on December 13th, 1900, in the Reichstag, "I fe

f mine told me that the chemists of Germany were called on, after poison gas had been met by British and French, to devise some new and deadly chemical. Flame throwers soon appeared together with

t Kaiserism is not capable of