TAILIEUCHUNG - GERMANY, THE NEXT REPUBLIC?BY CARL W. ACKERMANNEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY1917.PREFACE I

I was at the White House on the 29th of June, 1914, when the newspapers reported the assassination of the Archduke and Archduchess of Austria. In August, when the first declarations of war were received, I was assigned by the United Press Associations to "cover" the belligerent embassies and I met daily the British, French, Belgian, Italian, German, Austro-Hungarian, Turkish and Japanese diplomats. When President Wilson went to New York, to Rome, Georgia, to Philadephia and other cities after the outbreak of the war, I accompanied him as one of the Washington correspondents. On these journeys and in Washington. | GERMANY THE NEXT REPUBLIC BY CARL W. ACKERMAN NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 1917 PREFACE I was at the White House on the 29th of June 1914 when the newspapers reported the assassination of the Archduke and Archduchess of Austria. In August when the first declarations of war were received I was assigned by the United Press Associations to cover the belligerent embassies and I met daily the British French Belgian Italian German Austro-Hungarian Turkish and Japanese diplomats. When President Wilson went to New York to Rome Georgia to Philadephia and other cities after the outbreak of the war I accompanied him as one of the Washington correspondents. On these journeys and in Washington I had an opportunity to observe the President to study his methods and ideas and to hear the comment of the European ambassadors. When the von Tirpitz blockade of England was announced in February 1915 I was asked to go to London where I remained only one month. From March 1915 until the break in diplomatic relations I was the war correspondent for the United Press within the Central Powers. In Berlin Vienna and Budapest I met the highest government officials leading business men and financiers. I knew Secretaries of State Von Jagow and Zimmermann General von Kluck who drove the German first army against Paris in August 1914 General von Falkenhayn former Chief of the General Staff Philip Scheidemann leader of the Reichstag Socialists Count Stefan Tisza Minister President of Hungary and Count Albert Apponyi. While my headquarters were in Berlin I made frequent journeys to the front in Belgium France Poland Russia and Roumania. Ten times I was on the battlefields during important military engagements. Verdun the Somme battlefield General Brusiloffs offensive against Austria and the invasion of Roumania I saw almost as well as a soldier. After the sinking of the Lusitania and the beginning of critical relations with the United States I was in constant touch with James W. Gerard the .

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