Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-04-19 | Page 3 | Gerard Tells of Great Hatred

oo UlmKIJ I lLLqj OF GREATHA1RED Kaiser Intended to Starve England and Collect From the United States. BOSTON, April 18. To show the "deep hatred," which he asserted Germany Ger-many has held against the United States, former Ambassador James W. Gerard tonight disclosed facts which he said had been kept from the American Ameri-can people during the past two and a half years. Ho was the principal speaker at a national defense dinner given by tho Pilgrim Publicity association. associa-tion. Mr. Gerard said that Admiral von Tirpitz, in thinly veiled statements, and the German reichstag and Prussian Prus-sian parliament, in open discussions, proposed the institution of unrestricted unrestrict-ed submarine warfare against England with the intention, "when England should have been subdued by hunger, to come over to the United States and collect the price of the war fiom us." "I want to tell you," Mr. Gerard added, add-ed, "that if we had not gone into this war, Germany would have fulfilled its intention to come over here afterward and attack us, and would have done so almost with the applause of the rest of the world. I can tell you also that everything consistent with honor was done to keep us out of the war. Beyond that, I am sure, none would have us go." The former ambassador expressed his belief that citizens of Gorman descent de-scent would prove loyal, "but," he added, add-ed, "if they" do not stand with us. I ' think we know where to festoon ' them. Mr. Gerard's statement that the war would be a hard one was echoed by Major General Wood. "No one can tell how the war is going to go, so far as we are concerned," he said. "It will not be a paper Avar. It will be a war of living men, and, important as food, mono and munitions may be, men will be the big factor." who are opposing President Wilson's policy of universal obligatory military service will be responsible for thousands thou-sands of lives if their arguments prevail."