The Sword Maker
THE SWORD MAKER BY ROBERT BARR AUTHOR OF "TEKLA" "CARDILLAC" "THE VICTORS" "IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS" ETC. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
German asset whenever there was a submarine crisis.
When Henry Morgenthau, former American Ambassador to Turkey, passed
through Berlin, en route to the United States, he conferred with
Zimmermann, who was then Under Secretary of State. During the course
of one of their conversations Zimmermann said the United States would
never go to war with Germany, "because the German-Americans would
revolt." That was one of Zimmermann's hobbies. Zimmermann told other
American officials and foreign correspondents that President Wilson
would not be able to bring the United States to the brink of war,
because the "German-Americans were too powerful."
But Zimmermann was not making these statements upon his own authority.
He was being kept minutely advised about conditions here through the
German spy system and by German-American envoys, who came to Berlin to
report on progress the German-Americans were making here in politics
and in Congress.
Zimmermann was so "dead sure" he was right in expecting a large portion
of Americans to be disloyal that one time during a conversation with
Ambassador Gerard he said that he believed Wilson was only bluffing in
his submarine notes. When Zimmermann was Under Secretary of State I
used to see him very often. His conversation would contain questions
like these:
"Well, how is your English President? Why doesn't your President do
THE SWORD MAKER BY ROBERT BARR AUTHOR OF "TEKLA" "CARDILLAC" "THE VICTORS" "IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS" ETC. NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS