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Why America Should Join The Allies
Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Every hour the question of Americas neutrality becomes more acute. We are so used to regarding Americana as our own flesh and blood that we lose sight of the fact that there are in the United States twenty million people of German birth-many of them occupying very influential positions-who are striving hard to foster in Americans a strong feelin... more »g on behalf of Germany. The danger of this influence is fully realised by Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, the ex-President of the United States, and he is using his best endeavours to counteract it by advocating that America should join the Allies in the present war. He has written a powerful article embodying his arguments, which we have secured for publication in this country. In order to facilitate a proper understanding of his attitude we present, first of all, a statement concerning the feeling in America at the moment, and append those extracts from the Act of the Second Peace Conference at the Hague which have bearing on Mr. Roosevelts words. WORD To the ordinary Englishman with a tuim for politics the view-point of the United States is one of profound importance in the present War crisis. There is no general expectation in this country to-day that America will take any active part in the hostilities either on the side of Germany and Austria or the Allies, but there is everywhere a growing desire that the realtruth about the conflict should emerge from the present welter of misunderstanding and misstatement, and that the nost powerful neutral country in the world should appreciate not only the outrages that have been committed in the facile and easily misunderstood name of Kultur, but its own duties in the light of its solemn obligations, and a, s seen through the eyes of the civilised world. It is a matter of common knowledge now that when the War actually broke out in August the attitude of the United States was the subject of considerable speculatioi ancl doubt. Unlike the contradictory history of the relations between England and America, the records of the dealings between - Waahing-ton and Berlin exhibited a series of friendly negotiations and concessions that no negotiations over commercial treaties, no influx of millions upon millions of sturdy German emigrants, no heart-burning over sundry highhanded interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine in South America had ever been able to dim. For years, in view of this War, the Kaiser had - nursed American public opinion in his favour with all the zeal and the cunning and the assiduity of an American press-agent. Nothing had been too high for the All-highest War Lord--even the gift of sundry Bibles to sundry churches. Nothing had been too low for him --even the visit to New York of his own great Sea Lord, Prince Henry of Prussia, who promptly went to law with his American dentist. Behind every move in Ohis game stood sinister figures of the secret agents and spies of the Wilhelrnstrasse-men who took care to acquire powerful influence in such German-American cities as Milwaukee, Cin cinnati, and St. Louis, and to sway that influence on political and social lines in the 8 WHY AMERICA SHOULD JOIN THE ALLIES. direction of Germany to the limit of their purses and their power. Finally the hour fitruck. The figurer of great Jewish German financiers emerged from F their custonlary seclusion in New York, Chicago, and other big American cities, and these moneymaking patriots boldly lent to Germany out of the coffers of the United States the millions she required to launch her world campaign with a decent promise of success. In those times Germany and her friends in distant places had more to hope from the turn of the cards than they have at present...

ISBN-13: 9781408640937
ISBN-10: 1408640937
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 62
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