{"product_id":"2940013416017","title":"MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       FOREWORD.\u003cbr\u003e     I MY FIRST YEAR IN GERMANY.\u003cbr\u003e    II POLITICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL.\u003cbr\u003e   III DIPLOMATIC WORK OF FIRST WINTER IN BERLIN.\u003cbr\u003e    IV MILITARISM IN GERMANY AND THE ZABERN AFFAIR.\u003cbr\u003e     V PSYCHOLOGY AND CAUSES WHICH PREPARED THE NATION FOR WAR.\u003cbr\u003e    VI AT KIEL JUST BEFORE THE WAR.\u003cbr\u003e   VII THE SYSTEM.\u003cbr\u003e  VIII THE DAYS BEFORE THE WAR.\u003cbr\u003e    IX THE AMERICANS AT THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES.\u003cbr\u003e     X PRISONERS OF WAR.\u003cbr\u003e    XI FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR: POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC.\u003cbr\u003e   XII DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e  XIII MAINLY COMMERCIAL.\u003cbr\u003e   XIV WORK FOR THE GERMANS.\u003cbr\u003e    XV WAR CHARITIES.\u003cbr\u003e   XVI HATE.\u003cbr\u003e  XVII DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS. (Continued).\u003cbr\u003e XVIII LIBERALS AND REASONABLE MEN.\u003cbr\u003e   XIX THE GERMAN PEOPLE IN WAR.\u003cbr\u003e    XX LAST.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY FIRST YEAR IN GERMANY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second day out on the _Imperator_, headed for a summer's\u003cbr\u003evacation, a loud knocking woke me at seven A. M. The radio, handed\u003cbr\u003ein from a friend in New York, told me of my appointment as Ambassador\u003cbr\u003eto Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany friends were on the ship. Henry Morgenthau, later Ambassador\u003cbr\u003eto Turkey, Colonel George Harvey, Adolph Ochs and Louis Wiley\u003cbr\u003eof the _New_York_Times_, Clarence Mackay, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe _Imperator_ is a marvellous ship of fifty-four thousand\u003cbr\u003etons or more, and at times it is hard to believe that one is\u003cbr\u003eon the sea. In addition to the regular dining saloon, there is\u003cbr\u003ea grill room and Ritz restaurant with its palm garden, and, of\u003cbr\u003ecourse, an Hungarian Band. There are also a gymnasium and swimming\u003cbr\u003epool, and, nightly, in the enormous ballroom dances are given,\u003cbr\u003ethe women dressing in their best just as they do on shore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonel Harvey and Clarence Mackay gave me a dinner of twenty-four\u003cbr\u003ecovers, something of a record at sea. For long afterwards in\u003cbr\u003eGermany, I saw everywhere pictures of the _Imperator_ including\u003cbr\u003eone of the tables set for this dinner. These were sent out over\u003cbr\u003eGermany as a sort of propaganda to induce the Germans to patronise\u003cbr\u003etheir own ships and indulge in ocean travel. I wish that the\u003cbr\u003epropaganda had been earlier and more successful, because it is\u003cbr\u003eby travel that peoples learn to know each other, and consequently\u003cbr\u003eto abstain from war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the night of the usual ship concert, Henry Morgenthau translated\u003cbr\u003ea little speech for me into German, which I managed to get through\u003cbr\u003eafter painfully learning it by heart. Now that I have a better\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of German, a cold sweat breaks out when I think of\u003cbr\u003ethe awful German accent with which I delivered that address.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082795073776,"sku":"2940013416017","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013416017_p0.jpg?v=1763580960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013416017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}