The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

one in secret soon or late ar

s to the plots of the Potsdam gang is,

published in Leipsic in 1907, called "Reminiscences of

ccurred to the Councillor of the Ambassador, von Holleben, that the book would ever fall into the hands of any American. The very fact that an American author found the volume in a second-hand bookstore of Vienna in 1914

ave revealed matters of greater moment to Germany than this volume of reminiscences that sets forth the propaganda carried o

urs bestowed at the end of his long diplomatic career tell their own story. Every page breathes sincerity and truthfulness. No one who reads th

sent to the United States specially charged with the task of reuni

like New York and Brooklyn, Chicago and Milwaukee, Cincinnati and St. Louis, and to

members of the German-American League formally accepted their restored citizenship their first duty was to the Fatherland and the Kaiser and their second duty to the United States and its Government. Indeed, this lawyer

ut about this meeting and wrote a very severe editorial, after whi

orf-Astoria between Ambassador von Holleben, Professors Munsterberg of Harvard and Schoenfield of Columbia and himself, on the one side, and Herman Ridder on the other, but he gives the instructions from Berlin that Herr Ridder could only keep his subsidy from the German Government

ablish a pro-German movement against the United States for several yea

he was then, as he is to-day, an implacable and relentle