America and the German Peril (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from America and the German Peril AT the beginning of the war of 1914 the external world commenced to learn phases Of German character of which it had been strangely ignorant. The first lesson in this educative process was furnished by the attitude Of the German Socialists in the Reichstag, in their Press, and on the street. They had been deemed an insurmountable Obstacle to war by nearly every English, French, and American publicist. At the first sound of the bugle the brotherhood Of man was forgotten. With one solitary and unimportant exception they became militarists. This change in attitude was a violent shock to England. But America, too, was to have her thrills: that country had fondly believed that the attachment professed by Germans Of American birth or adoption to free institutions and republican Government would make them at least passively averse to any extension of the dynastic system Of government, the evils Of which had, presumably, been a factor in their expatriation. Their attitude was a lesson in physiology. Men whose parents had landed penniless. 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.