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"Athenwood," Newport, R.I.,

Sept. 17, 1914.

Today I have received from Germany a pamphlet entitled "Truth About
Germany, Facts About the War." The correctness and completeness of
its statements are vouched for by thirty-four persons, whose names
are recorded therein as members of an Honorary Committee. I know
personally seventeen of these thirty-four persons, and have known
them for years, some of them intimately. With six of them I have
labored as a colleague in university work. I have been introduced
into their homes, have broken bread at their tables and have
conversed with them long and often upon the problems of life and
culture. They are among the greatest thinkers, moralists and
philanthropists of the age. They are the salt of the earth! The
great theologian Harnack, the sound and accomplished political
scientist and economist von Schmoller, the distinguished
philologian von Wilamowitz, the well-known historian Lamprecht, the
profound statesman von Posadowsky, the brilliant diplomatist von
Buelow, the great financier von Gwinner, the great promoter of trade
and commerce Ballin, the great inventor Siemens, the brilliant
preacher of the Gospel Dryander, the indispensable Director in the
Ministry of Education Schmidt. Two of them are, in a sense, our own
countrywomen, the Baroness Speck von Sternburg and Frau
Staats-minister von Trott zu Solz. The latter is the granddaughter
of our own John Jay. I have known her, her mother and her
grandfather. No statement was ever issued which was vouched for by
more solid, intelligent, and conscientious people. Its correctness,
completeness and veracity cannot be doubted. As I read it the
emotions which it arouses make both speech and sight difficult. I
wish it might come into the hands of every man, woman, and child in
the United States.

(Signed) JOHN W. BURGESS,

Ex-Dean Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy, Pure Science
and Fine Arts, Columbia University; Roosevelt Professor of American
History and Institutions at Friedrich Wilhelms University, Berlin,
1906; Visiting American Professor at Austrian Universities,
1914-15.

Under the head of "An Anti-British Pamphlet," The London Times of Aug.
23, 1914, noted as follows:

The Vossischezeitung give