Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

Capitolo 57

members of influential Reichstag that the true power behind the government
here it was not the press and public opinion but the nine million
American that were they directly reported or indirectly in Germany.  During
this duration the so sure National felt that could count on the
so defined German-American that the Government considered them as a
Well German there was whenever every a submarine crisis.

When Henry Morgenthau, the first American Ambassador in Turkey passed
through Berlin, ens address to the United States, he conferred with
Zimmermann that was then Under Minister of State.  During the course
of one of their conversations Zimmermann said the United States
it ever goes to wage war with Germany, "because the German-Americans are able
revolt."  That was one of the hobbies of Zimmermann.  Zimmermann said other
Officers American and correspondent foreigners that President Wilson
it would not be able to bring the United States to the edge of war,
because the "German-American they were too much powerful persons."

But Zimmermann was not making these affirmations on his/her his/her own authority.
He was kept minutely envoy here to the current one on the conditions through the
It Systematizes spy German and from German-American envoys to that they came to Berlin
you bring on progress that the German-Americans were doing here in the politics
and in Congress.

Zimmermann was so "dead sure" he was right in to wait him for a great portion
of Americans to be disloyal that once during a conversation with
Ambassador Gerard that he has said that he believed that Wilson was only bluffing in
his/her submarine notes.  When Zimmermann was Under Minister of State me
very often see him/it.  Its conversation would contain questions
as these:

"Well, as is it Your President English?  Because it doesn't make Your President
anything against England?"

Zimmermann was always in contact of closing with the job of von of Captains
Papen and Boy-and when they was in this country.  He was one of the
you support principal of the small group of lobbyists in Berlin that directed