1917] Appeal to German- Americans 



out by order of the Creel bureau for distribution 

 among German-Americans and especially among Ger- 

 man prisoners in France and England. The English 

 text was also used in some of our military training 

 camps. 



In my paper I reminded "German-Americans" that the 

 war would be followed by an accounting in the Fatherland 

 which no autocrat could face, the German people then coming 

 into their own. Medieval obsessions lasted longest in Germany, 

 where through military and apparent financial success they 

 acquired a strength they could nowhere else secure. The tireless 

 but minute researches of German science, with the patient 

 docility of individuals, gave the theory and practice of "mo- 

 narchical order" a hold which in recent years it has not had in 

 England or France. 



Meanwhile I gave a number of lectures on "The 

 Schemes of Pangermany," in support of the Red many " 

 Cross and of Belgian and Armenian relief, besides 

 writing signed and unsigned editorials for The Public, 

 Unity, and occasionally other papers. 



Two of these contributions had a picturesque fate. 

 In 1917-18 certain French troops entrenched in 

 Lorraine published each fortnight a little journal of 

 literature and news called Rhin et Moselle. The editor "Rhin 

 having no type, the articles were written out in script Mosfllf 

 and the pages then photo-engraved. What I had to 

 say about "The Superman" and "Alsace-Lorraine 

 during the War" found favor with Jules Froelich, a 

 Nancy man of letters, author of "Le Pangermaniste 

 en Alsace" and other clever booklets, who translated 

 my papers for Rhin et Moselle. On November 1 1, the 

 second article came to an abrupt end, the editor 

 politely explaining to me that the advent of peace 

 had deprived him of all his subscribers. 



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