Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . ould bring the Americanstaff, though he did not mention whetherhe expected to learn as well as to teach. papers were as promi-nently displayed in thenews - stands as thosefrom Berlin, even incities beyond the occu-pied area. Hauptmannappeared no more oftenin the repertoire thanShakespeare — though,come to think of it, didnot some Boche savantprove the latter a Ger-man? There was a con-stant stream of people,principally young men, through our of-fices inquiring how they could mosteasily emigrate to America. Incident-ally we were b
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . ould bring the Americanstaff, though he did not mention whetherhe expected to learn as well as to teach. papers were as promi-nently displayed in thenews - stands as thosefrom Berlin, even incities beyond the occu-pied area. Hauptmannappeared no more oftenin the repertoire thanShakespeare — though,come to think of it, didnot some Boche savantprove the latter a Ger-man? There was a con-stant stream of people,principally young men, through our of-fices inquiring how they could mosteasily emigrate to America. Incident-ally we were besieged by scores ofAmericans who spoke not a wordof English, who had been caught hereby the war—more than four years ago—and had often killed the time by serv-ing in the German army, but who nowdemanded all the privileges which theircitizenship, genuine or alleged, wassupposed to confer upon them. A Ger-man major wrote a long letter of appli-cation for admission into the Americanarmy, inclosing several pages of recom-mendations and a detailed account of. A MARKET SCENE IN COBLENZ There was nowhere a sign of resentmenteven against German - Americans —as the Boche was accustomed to callthem until he discovered the virtualnon-existence of that anomaly — forhaving entered the war against theold Fatherland. The government oftheir adopted country had ordered themto do certain things, and no one under-stands better than* the German thatgovernment orders are issued to beobeyed. Now and then one stumbled upon thesophistry that seems so established atrait in the German make-up. No cor-poration lawyer could have been more 316 HAEPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE clever in finding loopholes in the procla-mations issued by the Army of Occupa-tion than those adherents of the scrapof paper fallacy who set out to do host, a pompous judge, sent up wordfrom time to time for permission tospend an evening out with me over abottle of the well-aged Rhine wine withwhich his cellar seemed still t
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