OCR Text |
Show AMERICA AGAIN THE STORM CENTER 1 Having failod to separate France '& and Groat Britain, iho Gorman propa-3, propa-3, jrandist lias turned to thr. United Bj Sure? In an effort to stir up what-K what-K ever Jcaloupy may exist as between H the two nations. This is the view of j Frank H. Simonil?. the American war Bj historian, who makes this statement: Bj The next step in the German H came is American rather than En H ropean. His propaganda, his ac- I tivitlcs have been disclosed in re- Bj cent weeks and felt, for many Bj months, working to embroil the Bj United States with Great Britain His effort to discredit France is, I after all, more or less of an inci-K inci-K dent. His real hope, his real H chance of escaping from his Eu- ropean situation, must be found in ff aiding and abelting in the crea- S tion of an Anglo American feud, B His game now is quite to be Km compared with the purpose re- 9 vealed 1n the hour when we were H about to enter the world war, when he sought to involve us with Japan and with Mexico, 9 promising them our border and Taclfic land His campaign will B be directed at stimulating in H every possible manner every cir- flj cumstance and detail of Anglo- IX American rivalry. He believes that the war has made the United Unit-ed States the real rival of Great Britian and that quite consciously the United States is now seeking to replace Britain He calculates, all the German I comment shows, the hope and the expectation that we shall find ourselves our-selves morn and more in conflict commerclall with the British He reckons, too, that we shall find more and more domestic neces slty for the obtaining of foreign markets for our cotton, for our foodstuffs and raw materials He believes thai (i( rinany can provide the market and offer to the Unit ed States that attractive field for lnrestment whieh will make us more and more interested in protecting pro-tecting tbt German agajns his creditors and thus HgHlnt the consequences of hi.- defeat Simonds predict an intense cam paign in the United States to persuade the government to lake up the German Ger-man side. The appeal will be com- mrrciai ami me popie ru auk-mct will be expected to yield to thr- dollar I argument and throw away all th I moral prestige of the war. Hfl 00 |