Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
Capitolo 59
"Your President seems to want war. Germany is not responsible for that that
the German-Americans are doing. They is Your citizens not the ours.
Germany doesn't have to be kept person responsible for that that those people."
If you/he/she had not been for the fact that the American Government was fully
put to the current one on the intrigues of Zimmermann in the United States this comment
it would be approved on his/her face. The United States knew that Germany was
direct negotiations that have with German-American in the United States.
Men were to Germany with letters of introduction of the to conduct
German-American here, with the express purpose to try to get
Germany to stop here his/her propaganda. Their thing they did it was to assure
Germany that the German-Americans would never allow the United States
being drawn in the war. Because of their tall recommendations from
German here some of them they had public with the Kaiser.
Germany was financially sustaining of the Americans as the State
Department has test of controls that I/you/they have been given to American
city for propaganda and job of spy.
I personally know about an example where General Manager Heinicken, of
the north German-Lloyd, it gave an American to Berlin $1,000 for his
you compare on American conditions. The name cannot be mentioned because
there am no anybody files to try the operation, even if the man
receiving these money came to me and churches to me to send forth $250 to his
mother through the office of Press United. I refused.
When Zimmermann started to understand that Germany is threatening propaganda
in the United States and the plots of Germany against American ownership it was
not following in to frighten away the war United States, he started,
to anxiously wait for the event of war. He saw, as they made the most greater part of Germans that,
it would witness long once the United States you/he/she could arrive strengths
Europe in an enough number to have a decisive effect on the war.
He started to plan with the Personal General and the military Marina to unite in league Mexico