friendly, the
Government laboured to prepare the German people for war. The policy
was to make the American people believe Germany would never do anything
to bring the United States into the war, but to convince the German
public that America was not neutral and that President Wilson was
scheming against the German race. Germany was Janus-headed. Head
No. 1 said:

"America, you are a great nation. We want your friendship and
neutrality. We have close business and blood relations, and these
should not be broken. Germany is not the barbaric nation her enemies
picture her."

Head No. 2, turned toward the German people, said:

"Germans, President Wilson is anti-German. He wants to prevent us from
starting an unlimited submarine war. America has never been neutral,
because Washington permits the ammunition factories to supply the
Allies. These factories are killing your relatives. We have millions
of German-Americans who will support us. It will not be long until
Mexico will declare war on the United States, and our reservists will
fight for Mexico. Don't be afraid if Wilson breaks diplomatic
relations."

The German press invasion of America began at the beginning of the war.
Dr. Dernburg was the first envoy. He was sent to New York by the same
Foreign Office officials and the same Krupp interests which control the
Overseas agency. Having failed here, he returned to Berlin. There was
only one thing to save German propaganda in America. That was to
mobolise the Sayville and Tuckerton wireless stations, and Germany did
it immediately.

At the beginning of the war, when the British censors refused the
American correspondents in Germany the right of telegraphing to the
United States via England, the Berlin Government granted permission to
the United Press, The Associated Press and the _Chicago Daily News_ to
send wireless news via Sayville. At first this news was edited by the
correspondents of these associations and newspapers in Berlin. Later,
when the individual correspondents began to demand more space on the
wireless, the news sent jointly to these papers was cut down. This
unofficial league of American papers was called the "War-Union." The
news which this union sent was German, but it was written by trained
American writers. When the Government saw the value of this service to
the United States it began to send wireless news of its own. Then the
Krupp interests appeared, and the Overse