An Open Letter to an English Officer and Incidentally to the English People (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Open Letter to an English Officer and Incidentally to the English People When I distributed the first two thousand copies of this pamphlet among friends and acquaintances in the winter of 1919, I little thought that it would attain such wide publicity. The Germans, particularly those who had lived for years among the British and who had lost everything they possessed, were great admirers of the little book, and. many of them wrote me touching letters. On the other hand my republican ideals and my comments upon the Kaiser, upon Religion and Socialism, subjected me to a fire of sharp criticism from certain conservative people,-who would no doubt be astonished if they knew that the "Open Letter" had also received the enthusiastic commendation of a highly-esteemed member of one of the former ruling houses of Germany! Others again objected to its length. But had I followed the advice of all these well-meaning readers and cut and trimmed the pamphlet to suit them I should have rendered myself guilty of producing a piece of mere German propaganda. As it is, the little book, in spite of all its faults, is written from an independent point of mew by an American whose German birth gives him a wider freedom and deeper insight into questions concerning both countries than are possible to the average mob-ridden, press-poisoned Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-American suffering from the mental and moral virus of such maxims as "right or wrong, my country". I received many letters from Englishmen and Americans who do not belong to the average, men of high standing in public life or intellectual circles who congratulated me upon my attitude. An English clergyman wrote that it was "exactly the medicine which John Bull needed" and asked me to send him fifty copies for distribution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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