In answer to your favor of 12th instant I beg to say that I have read the monthly review "Fair Play" for the last 3 years, and I can state that this publication has been living up to its name and that it has always taken the American point of view. During the last 7 months "Fair Play" has, in its editorial policy, treated all belligerents justly and thereby rendered great services to the millions of foreign born citizens of this country, especially to those of German and Austro-Hungarian origin. "Fair Play" has fought for the rights of the latter and for truth, always maintaining an American attitude and showing true American spirit. You are at liberty to show this letter to anybody who is interested in the matter, but I beg you not to publish it, as to this would be contrary to the instructions of my Government, who does not wish me to publicly advertize any reviews or newspaper. Very sincerely yours, _J. Bernstorff_ Marcus Braun, Esq., Editor of "Fair Play" New York City. Fac-simile of a letter from Count von Bernstorff to the editor of "Fair Play"] "In fact," said the report, "it will be particularly desirable to inaugurate the Chinese service at once, so that the American public is informed about that which really happens in order to create an effective counter-weight against the Japanese propaganda in the American press." The New York bureau was estimated to cost $6,640 per month, the bureau in Berlin about half that sum; two years' effort would have cost about $200,000. The writer proposed to establish a lecture service as auxiliary, the total expenses of which, covering the Chautauquas of one summer, he estimated at $75,000. The investigator concluded: "Hoping that my proposals will lead to a successful result, I will take the liberty of advising in the interest of the German cause--aside from the fact whether my proposals will be carried out or not--that the following should be avoided on the part of Germany in the future: "1. The Belgian neutrality question as well as the question of the Belgian atrocities should not be mentioned any more in the future. "2. It should not be tried any more in America to put the blame for the world war and its consequences alone on England, as a considerable English element still exists in America, and the American people hold to the view that all parties, as usual, are partly guilty for the war. "3. The pride and imagination of the Americans with regard to their culture should not continually be offended by the assertion that German culture is the only real culture and surpasses everything else. "4. The publication of purely scientific pamphlets should be avoided in the future as far as the American people are concerned, as their dry reading annoys the American and is incomprehensible to him.