FACE TO FACE

WITH KAISERISM

BY

JAMES W. GERARD
LATE AMBASSADOR TO THE GERMAN IMPERIAL COURT
AUTHOR OF "MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY"

Fig. 1. THE KAISER AND VON TREUTLER
TAKEN IN THE NORWEGIAN TOWN OF ODDE IN 1910

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1918

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TO

COLONEL EDWARD M. HOUSE
STATESMAN AND FRIEND
THE AUTHOR
DEDICATES THIS BOOK

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

In some measure this book is a continuation of MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY the narrative here being carried up to the time of my return home, with some observations on the situation I have found in the United States.

What I want especially to impress upon the people of the United States is that we are at war because Germany invaded the United States---an invasion insidiously conceived and vigorously prosecuted for years before hostilities began;---that this war is our war;---that the sanctity of American freedom and of the American home depend upon what we do NOW.

JAMES W. GERARD.
NEW YORK,
APRIL FIRST, 1918.

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CONTENTS

I

PERSONALITY OF THE KAISER AND SOMETHING OF THE KING BUSINESS

II

WHO DOES THE KAISER'S THINKING AND WHO DECIDED ON THE BREAK WITH AMERICA?

III

WHO SANK THE "LUSITANIA"?

IV

THE KAISER AND "LÈSE-MAJESTÉ"

V

WHEN THE KAISER THOUGHT WE WERE BLUFFING

VI

THE INSIDE OF GERMAN DIPLOMACY

VII

GERMANY'S PLAN TO ATTACK AMERICA

VIII

GERMANY'S EARLY PLOTS IN MEXICO

IX

THE KULTUR OF KAISERDOM --- THE GERMAN SOUL

X

THE LITTLE KAISERS

XI

ROYALTY'S RECREATION

XII

THE ETERNAL FEMININE

XIII

HOME LIFE AND "BRUTALITY" OF THE PEOPLE

XIV

AIMS OF THE AUTOCRACY

XV

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY---THE KAISER'S VASSAL STATE

XVI

GERMAN INFLUENCE ON THE NORTHERN NEUTRALS

XVII

SWITZERLAND---ANOTHER KIND OF NEUTRAL

XVIII

A GLIMPSE OF FRANCE

XIX

MY INTERVIEW WITH THE KING OF SPAIN

XX

GERMAN SPIES AND THEIR METHODS

XXI

EN ROUTE HOME---KAISERISM IN AMERICA

XXII

THAT INTERVIEW WITH THE KAISER

XXIII

THE FUTURE KAISER---THE CROWN PRINCE AND HIS BROTHERS

XXIV

WHEN GERMANY WILL BREAK DOWN

XXV

THE ERRORS OF EFFICIENT GERMANY

XXVI

PRESIDENT WILSON AND PEACE

XXVII

AFTER THE WAR, WHAT?

ILLUSTRATIONS

 


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