James W. Gerard

My Four Years In

Sinopsis

The second day out on the Imperator, headed for a summer's vacation, a
loud knocking woke me at seven A. M. The radio, handed in from a friend
in New York, told me of my appointment as Ambassador to .
Many friends were on the ship. Henry Morgenthau, later Ambassador to
Turkey, Colonel George Harvey, Adolph Ochs and Louis Wiley of the
_New_York_Times_, Clarence Mackay, and others.
The Imperator is a marvellous ship of fifty-four thousand tons or more, and
at times it is hard to believe that one is on the sea. In addition to the regular
dining saloon, there is a grill room and Ritz restaurant with its palm
garden, and, of course, an Hungarian Band. There are also a gymnasium...

Face To Face With Kaiserism

porJames W. Gerard

Sinopsis

TO the American mind the Kaiser is the personification of . He is
the arch enemy upon whom the world places the responsibility for this
most terrible of all wars. I have sat face to face with him in the palace at
Berlin where, as the personal representative and envoy of the President of
the United States, I had the honor of expressing the viewpoint of a great
nation. I have seen him in the field as the commanding general of mighty
forces, but I also have seen him in the neutral countries through which I
ed on my return home and in my own beloved land—in the evidence
of intrigue and plotting which this militaristic monarch has begotten and
which is to-day "the Thing," a...