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Title: My Three Years in America

Author: Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

Release Date: January 6, 2010 [eBook #30865]

Language: English

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MY THREE YEARS IN AMERICA

by

COUNT BERNSTORFF

1920

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER
I. GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE WAR
II. THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN THE UNITED STATES
III. POLITICAL EVENTS PRECEDING THE "LUSITANIA" INCIDENT
IV. ECONOMIC QUESTIONS
V. THE SO-CALLED GERMAN CONSPIRACIES
VI. THE "LUSITANIA" INCIDENT
VII. THE "ARABIC" INCIDENT
VIII. THE SECOND "LUSITANIA" INCIDENT
IX. THE "SUSSEX" INCIDENT
X. AMERICAN MEDIATION
XI. THE RUPTURE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
XII. THE RETURN HOME

INDEX

MY THREE YEARS IN AMERICA

INTRODUCTION

MY FUNDAMENTAL POLITICAL VIEWS BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR

It was in my own home, the German Embassy in London, where the
atmosphere was entirely political, that I learned my first steps
in politics. My father did not belong to that class of diplomats,
so prevalent to-day, who treat politics as an occupation to be
pursued only in their spare time. His whole life was consecrated
to the cause of the German nation, and from my earliest childhood
my mind was filled with the same idea, to the exclusion of all
others.

Owing to my father's share in the negotiations which brought about
the marriage of the Emperor Frederick with the Princess Royal of
England, the Imperial couple became closely connected with my parents,
and, as Crown Prince and Princess, frequently resided at the Embassy
in London. It was the entourage of the Emperor Frederick that first
inspired in me those political views, which, during a long diplomatic
career, gradually crystallized into the deep-rooted convictions
of my political outlook. I believed Germany's salvation to lie
in the direction of a liberal development of Uni