Scheele made many revelations which never heretofore have been made public, because they were humiliating and shocking to us, and showed how completely we had been befooled for years. He said: “We knew all you had, everything, and we used all you had. You invented the submarine—and we used it, not you. You invented the airplane—and we used it, not you.” (Which is true, as our boys in the Argonne battle would testify.) “If you had had new gases, we’d have got them. We had four men for years in your Patent Office, and you never knew it. We knew every invention useful to us. We had a man in your army secrets, one in your navy.” “But how could you do such things—how could you have men inside of our Government in that way?” interrupted the man to whom he was unburdening himself. “Good God!” said Scheele, “we’ve got them in your Congress, haven’t we?” It is enough. And now comes Dernburg and believes that Americans will hail the “new understanding” between Germany and America! He believes that we shall be very good friends, now that the war is over. CHAPTER IX HANDLING BAD ALIENS Dealing with Dangerous Propagandists—High and Low Class Disloyalists—The Alleged Americanism of the Kaiser’s Kultur-Spreaders—A Few Instances of A. P. L. Persuasions. In the early days of the A. P. L., Mr. Bielaski, Chief of the Bureau of Investigations of the Department of Justice, issued an explicit letter of warning and advice to all League members as to their conduct regarding aliens. The Attorney General often publicly denounced lynchings. The Bureau of Investigation always counseled prudence and full justice to all. Surely, the aliens, the unnaturalized, the strangers and visitors of other races than our own, caught in this country with or against their will by the declaration of war, can offer no complaint regarding the fairness and generosity of the treatment accorded them. These enemies of ours, these spies, propagandists and pro-Germans, had better treatment than they deserved then and better than they deserve now. We have been too temperate, too fair, too lenient with them. The moderation of the A. P. L. work, indeed, all our Government work, with traitorous persons living in America, has been a matter of astonishment to all the European nations, who perhaps knew more of the alien enemy type than we did ourselves.