. The National Civic Federation review . Berlin constantly and and Hugo Schmidt and Richard Timmer-scheidt were in receipt through Sayville of de-tailed orders governing their acts for the Germangovernment and German banks respectively. Thefile of radiograms kept by the Navy officialsfurnished a perfect mine of information to thegovernment and to my office especially. Other departments of the government havelearned that through the wireless propagandaand sabotage instructions were forwarded toGerman agents and spies; millions of Germanwar loans were sold and the funds transmitted,and
. The National Civic Federation review . Berlin constantly and and Hugo Schmidt and Richard Timmer-scheidt were in receipt through Sayville of de-tailed orders governing their acts for the Germangovernment and German banks respectively. Thefile of radiograms kept by the Navy officialsfurnished a perfect mine of information to thegovernment and to my office especially. Other departments of the government havelearned that through the wireless propagandaand sabotage instructions were forwarded toGerman agents and spies; millions of Germanwar loans were sold and the funds transmitted,and American opinion for a long time was in-fluenced. It is asserted that the instructions todestroy the interned German ships were thusconveyed. As an instrument of politics and warthe wireless stood out pre-eminent. . The effect of the work of my department is thatGermany has been wholly excluded from thewireless field in America; has been substantiallyhampered in communication by wireless to the The National Civic Federation Review. FRANCIS P. GARY AN South; and can only after a long effort and atgreat expense and by the development of a newsystem recover (if she can recover at all) anindependent position in the Western Hemisphere,our government, in turn, is free from the domina-tion of any privately-owned system. Mr. Palmer tells entertainingly of how heeliminated the German interests in the electricalindustry, especially in the Bosch Magneto Co.,which refused to sell its vital product for air-planes or automobiles that might be used againstGermany. Also he tells of how control of thefur industry was taken from the Germans andcentered in this country—to stay. No fiction could be more sensational than thehistory of the Bridgeport Projectile Co. Thisis the story of a far-reaching and nefarious plotto prevent the manufacture of arms and am-munition for the Allies during the trying daysof 1915 and so extensive were the German gov-ernments holdings that when the Alien Prop-erty C
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