Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

Capitolo 71

Our submarineses have respected every one of them till now, and they has
results met in the Sea of the North, the Channel and the Atlantic."


In the same day that Ambassador Gerard gave Secretary of Jagow von
You note of Lansing, Under Minister of State Zimmermann the vons approved
Holtzendorff interviews.  Zimmermann could not make to believe that
a submarine German was responsible and the Government had decided
disowns every responsibility.  But so convincing relationships started
arrivals from the United States and from European and neutral countries that
tried over a doubt that a submarine German was responsible, that the
Government had to bring again on the problem Gran submarine
Head office.  When the von the interview of Holtzendorff was published in the
The United States provoked a feeling because if Germany maintained the
attitude with which you/he/she had taken the Head of the Personal admiralty the
approval of the Foreign Office, an interruption in diplomatic relations was able
is not avoided.  Secretary Lansing telegraphed Ambassador Gerard to
asks to the Foreign Office if the affirmations of von
Holtzendorff represented the opinions of the German Government.  Gerard
calls me to the embassy but before I arrived the Dr. Heckscher, of the
Reichstag Relazioni Committee Straniero, came.  Gerard called me in in
The presence of Heckscher to ask if I knew that the von Holtzendorff
interview would provoke an interruption in diplomatic relations unless it
you/he/she was immediately disowned.  He said the Dr. Heckscher to inform Zimmermann
what if the Head of the Personal admiralty was about to direct Germany
foreign policies he would ask to his/her government to accredit him/it to the
naval authority and not in the Foreign Office.  Heckscher is not able
believes my affirmation that Zimmermann had approved the interview and
Sure Gerard that inside very short once the Foreign Office is able
disowns von the affirmations of Holtzendorff.  When he reached the Foreigner
However, Office that Zimmermann you/he/she has not only refused to disown the admiral
affirmation but informed Heckscher that he had the same opinions.