Word: bausman
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...canvas again and again the responsibility for the War, particularly the question of inter-allieddebts, may in most cases be justly suspect of propagandist aims, even though it be the misfortune, and not the intention of the author, if his propaganda deceives his friends rather than his enemies. Frederick Bausman purports to be the friend of the American people, as a loyal American himself. And yet if his book be believed by his friends the Americans, they risk even greater dangers abroad than those of which Mr. Bausman warns them...
...consider Mr. Bausman's thesis. The Allies engineered the war, which Germany did not seek, but rather tried to fend off, and the British by almost ingenious propaganda infected the pure American air so successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they...
Without venturing to attack Bausman's conclusions concerning warsguilt, it is sufficient to notice that his account of the entry of the United States into the war is based on the assumption that British propaganda alone accomplished it. Attention is directed more to violations of our neutrality by England than by Germany. There is no reference to German propaganda and sabotage, and no mention of the Zimmerman telegram. We appear as the dupe of the Allies...
Finally, the debt question is regarded entirely in the light of legality and morality, with scarcely a mention of economics, and as it is some of our ablest economists who are arguing for debt cancellation on purely economic grounds, Mr. Bausman's intricately woven garb of German innocence British duplicity, and American simplicity is a scant, almost indecent, covering for his main contentions...
...courageous." But, after all, it seems sufficient to warn its readers that here is presented only one side of an international question with very grave omissions of fact, that no valid judgment on the Great War will be pronounced until another generation, and finally that much of Mr. Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues...