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With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916. A stenographer set down their conversation verbatim. Excerpts...
...Bernstorff: That, of course, is impossible. Germany cannot abandon submarine warfare. No government could come out and say: "We give up the use of submarines." They would have to resign...
...Bernstorff: Humanity! Of course, War is never humane...
...Kingfish hastily concocted a Louisiana holiday celebrating the 16th anniversary of the day after the day President Wilson gave German Ambassador Count von Bernstorff his walking papers. From this fantastic episode Banker Hecht got considerable but not wholly dignified publicity...
...Congressional investigation of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. Asked if the President had approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days when Fate was pushing our country to the threshold of World War participation...