Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
Capitolo 94
it provoked an interruption with the United States.
"We desire to live in the peace and the friendship with America", he started, "but
there is here undoubtedly bitter feeling because American provisionings and
ammunition it trains our enemies to continue the war. If America owes
succeeds in to force England to respect international law, restorations the liberty
of the seas and it proceeds with American energy against England
brutalisation of neutrals, would have a decisive influence on the
political situation among the two countries. If America doesn't do
this then we have to do him/it with our submarines."
To October I was invited from the Foreign Office to go with a group of
correspondent to Essen, eau de cologne and the Valley of Rhine Industriale
centers. In Essen I satisfied von of Baron Bodenhausen and the other managers of
Krupps. To Düsseldorf to the industries Klub I dined with the steel
magnates of Germany and to Homburg-on-the-Rhine I saw August Thyssen,
one of the richest men in Germany and the man of what they possess a tenth
The coal of Germany and iron fields. The most impressive thing around this
trip was what these men said on the necessity for boundless
war. Every man that I have met was opposite to the Chancellor. They hated
him because he postponed mobilisation to the beginning of the war. Them
he/she affirmed that they had exhorted the invasion of Belgium because if Belgium
France had not been invaded you/he/she would immediately have been able to grab the Rhine
Valley and impossible Germany constituted him/it to manufacture ammunition of war
and with this to fight against a war. They told them they were in favour of a
submarine and boundless war, merciless against England and all the ships
going to the British Islands. Their opinions were represented better in a
appearing publishing and inhaled in the _Rhieinische Westfaelische Zeitung_,
in that you/he/she was affirmed:
"Against the war you/he/she must be fights to an end. Or Germany or England, owe
victory and the affairs here on the Rhine they are ready to fight up to that