WHO ARE THE HUNS?

392 Exchange of German-American Notes.
as well as in the direction of the lofty ideal of the freedom of
the seas will lead to an understanding.
The Undersigned requests the Ambassador to bring the
above to the knowledge of the American Government and
avails himself of the opportunity to renew to His Excellency
the assurance of his most distinguished consideration."
(signed) von Jagow.
To His Excellency, the Ambassador of the United States
of America, Mr. James W. Gerard.
Moreover the German Government had made a very simple
proposal in the best of faith to the American Government, since
the latter had expressed a desire to "mediate." Germany merely
requested that she be given the same control over American exports
as had already been granted to the English. If the American
Government had agreed to this in an honest and truly neutral
spirit all quarrels would have come to an end! Then the disgraceful
traffic in munitions would also have ceased. And the American
Government would have had an opportunity for doing something
for the high and holy rights of humanity. Up to the present it
has merely preached humanity, and acted in direct, violent and
monumental opposition to it.
The American eagle, in travesty of the republic's own
coat of arms, held in one claw an olive branch for England,
in the other guns and bayonets against Germany. The
magnitude of this gigantic historical wrong, or rather crime,
is in effect, quadruple, both in extent and intensity, in view
of the fact that America had always been shown nothing
but good-will and friendship by Germany, whereas every move
that England has made, both in the past as well as the present,
has been to the detriment of the republic.
In the original the author treats of the English and South
African atrocities perpetrated against Germans. He shows
how these cover the name of England with ineradicable blots
of shame. These English pogroms are a blow in the face of
all the decencies of civilized peoples. The contrast between
the care, protection and consideration afforded enemy subjects
and enemy property in orderly and dignified Germany is glaringly
apparent. The horrible excesses committed by bestial mobs in