The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . theydid was not only against theUnited States, but against everyhonest shipper. To use thespirited phrase of another fed-eral attorney, Mr. Wood, lie ifjou will to your enemies, butyou shall not make the UnitedStates an indorser of yourlies. Early in December the Wash-ington Government formallyasked for the recall of twoGerman diplomatic attaches onaccount of improper activities in military and navalmatters. These were Captain von Papen and CaptainBoy-E
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . theydid was not only against theUnited States, but against everyhonest shipper. To use thespirited phrase of another fed-eral attorney, Mr. Wood, lie ifjou will to your enemies, butyou shall not make the UnitedStates an indorser of yourlies. Early in December the Wash-ington Government formallyasked for the recall of twoGerman diplomatic attaches onaccount of improper activities in military and navalmatters. These were Captain von Papen and CaptainBoy-Ed, who were declared to be no longer acceptableto this Government. Demands from Berlin for detailedexplanations were met by a courteous but firm insistencethat diplomatic usage did not require the filing of a billof particulars when a member of a foreign legation badceased to be a satisfactory person. Proofs of perniciousactivity have in part been made public and others are inthe hands of the State Department, said the New YorkTimes, ample in volume and in character to justify theaction now taken. The request for their recall seemed to. © INTEHNATIOHAL FILM SERVICE. N. Y. Capt. Fuaxz vox Papen 292 SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES the Brooklyn Eagle more important and significant thanthe enforced recall of Dr. Dumba, because it strikes directlyat the heart of a criminal conspiracy of which the inspira-tion comes from Berlin and in which the part played by theformer Austrian Ambassador was merely secondary. Be-fore the end of the year both men sailed for home underguaranty from Great Britain and France of safe seemed at the time to the New York World that an im-portant service could be performed by Captains von Papenand Boy-Ed to Germany in respect to German relations withthe United States. They could inform their Governmentthat American resentnient against the German propagandawas steadily increasing and that a continuation of the con-spiracy would soon make friendly
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