An American Woman´s Plea for Germany (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An American Woman´s Plea for Germany A stirring wind from the sea, after days of hot breaths out of the West, made us sniff expectantly. It was Hook Creek of the salt marshes, its quiet winding tidal stream from Jamaica Bay an old friend, and the hospitable inn of proved excellence. The man deposited his green corn and I a bunch of war news, at which he frowned, for he knew I was giving aid and comfort to the enemy, since he himself, like so many other deluded journalists in these benighted States, upholds the Allies in their three-to-one unholy war. Not that I mind France so much, foolish as she is to hang on through half a century to her "revanche," when Alsace and Lorraine were Teuton properties long before they were French; or Russia, with a bizarre charm all her own, not the least of which is a virility only a shade less intense than that of Prussia itself, and besides she is in real need of a south water; but England, always a blooming hypocrite, forever prating of her "honor" when she´s out simply for No. 1, and now stirring up the dark races against the white; England, eaten up with jealousy in her declining power, who will prolong the war indefinitely if not restrained, is beyond redemption. Singular, with our big German citizenship which hitherto we have valued so highly, in its strength, its scientific advance and its reliability - this attitude of the journalistic mind! It seems only yesterday that Great Britain had difficulty in getting from America anything like fair play. Less than thirty years ago, when in my salad days I fought battles against fearful odds for John Bull, feeling that prejudice was carried too far, American dislike of England and the English was a real and vital thing. We could not forget her various attitudes in the past: the days of the Revolution, those of 1812, and worst of all, her treacherous conduct in our Civil War, when Germany helped us. No wonder the latter is dazed at this present temper in one she thought her friend. To tell the truth, she has more friends than she realizes, among women not less than men, and of American stock, too, but they are not as a rule editing newspapers. 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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