Germans -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany
It is my opinion that for the special object of starting the
Bethlehem business and for the Bethlehem and Western newspaper
campaign, $15,000 to $20,000 must be able to be disposed of,
but it is not possible to reckon how much will ultimately be
required; when a beginning has been made it will be possible to
see how things develop, and where and how much it is worth while
to spend. The above-mentioned preliminary sum would suffice to
partially satisfy the demands of the necessary newspapers and to
a considerable extent those of the Bethlehem campaign.
These documents should be read in the light of their date, August
20, 1915, and of the fact that the United States was a neutral
nation, still harbouring the representatives of the “friendly”
German and Austro-Hungarian empires. They are conclusive enough,
in themselves, of the pernicious activities of these Embassies,
but they wall become doubly significant in a later article in
this series when they are read in the light of the activities of
“Labour’s National Peace Council.”
Another document which Dumba entrusted to Archibald was his report
to Burian on the then recent publication in the New York _World_ of
the papers taken from a satchel left in an elevated train by Dr.
Heinrich Albert, the financial adviser of the German Embassy in
America and the paymaster for a great deal of its work in plots and
propaganda. This dispatch of Dumba’s is worthy of reproduction in
full. It is:
A map and a number of documents--typed but unfinished copies or
statements of petitioners--were stolen from the financial adviser
of the German Embassy here, obviously by the English Secret
Service. These documents are now published in the current issue
of the _World_, which has gone over to the English “Yingolager”
(Jingo camp) as a great sensation, with cheap advertisement.
The paper makes the most violent accusations against the German
Embassy, mainly against Count Von Bernstorff, Military Attaché
Captain Von Papen, and Geheimrat Albert, who are said to have
conspired secretly against the safety of the United States, in
that they have bought arms and munition factories, have concluded
bogus contracts for delivery with France and Russia, have
purchased large quantities of explosive materials, have incited
strikes in the munition factories, have sought to corrupt the
press, and have spread far-reaching agitation for the effecting
of an embargo in the different American circles. The other
important New York papers second the _World_, although with less
violence, for, in their leading articles, by misrepresentation
of the facts, they accuse Germany of all possible and impossible
machinations--for instance, they, like the _World_, bring forward
the assertion that the German Government wished to stop the
supply of ammunition to the Allies, while itself secretly sending
quantities over.
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