Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
Capitolo 21
seemed to be normal as some other capital. Also the trust of
Germany in victory thrilled me so that in one of my first consignments me
says:
"To-day of Germany is more confident than never that all the efforts of her
hostile to crush they have to try in vain her. With an offensive threefold,
in Flanders, in Galicia and in Russia northwest, being with success
pursues, there was a spirit of enthusiasm it exposed here in the double
you look for soldiers and civilians that have also exceeded the exciting days
immediately following I burst him/it some war.
"Flags are flying everywhere to-day; the Imperial standards of Germany
and Austria predominates, even if there is an attractive exposure of the
Turkish crescent. Ribbons are playing as regiment after passages of regiment
through the city to entrain for the forehead. Through Wilhelmstrasse the
soldiers moved, their hats and guns decorated with fragrant flowers and
with mothers, sisters and beautiful seizing himself/herself/itself to and encouraging them."
Some weeks before I arrived the Germans you/they were excited on the consignment
of arm and ammunitions from the United States to the Allies, but from
the time that I was in Berlin that the situation is seemed to be changed. On
April 4 I telegraphed the following consignment in which the appeared
_Evening Sun_, New York:
"The spirit of the animosity toward American that swept Germany some
weeks ago it seems to have disappeared. The 1,400 Americans in Berlin and
those in the smallest cities in Germany have the small cause to complain of
discourteous treatment. American that arrive only to Berlin in
particular comment on the friendliness of their reception. The
Germans you/he/she has especially been polite, they declares, on to learn of
their nationality. Feeling against the United States to allow
arm for still to be sent to the Allies they exist, but I have not found
this wide feeling among the Germans. Two American doctors
studying in the German clinics declares that the wounded soldiers always
you speak around 'the keugel of Amerikanische' (American pellets), but it is mine