States last year suggested to the other American republics
common action against Germany and her allies.

This plot was apparently not conditional in the least.
The news as published by the newspaper "La Prensa" well
agreed with the interpretation given, for instance, by the
American newspaper man Edward Price Bell, London
correspondent, who said that the United States was only
waiting for the proper moment in order to opportunely
assist the Entente.

The same American stated that Americans from the be-
ginning of the war really participated in it by putting the
immense resources of the United States at the Entente's
disposal and that the Americans had not declared war
only because they felt sure that assistance by friendly neu-
trality would be during that time much more efficient for
the Entente than direct participation in the war.

Whether this American newspaper man reported the fact
exactly we were at a loss to judge in satisfactory fashion,
since we were more or less completely cut off from real com-
munication with the United States.

But there were other facts which seemed to confirm this
and similar assurances. Everybody knows these facts and
I need not repeat them.

Dr. Zimmermann's assertion and the proofs he al-
leges are of exactly the same character as the German
charges and proofs against Belgium, and the claim
that England was really guilty of causing this war.

All Germany to-day believes that the United States
endeavored to form a warlike coalition against Ger-
many. The revelations that have so startled and
shocked the American people throw a clear light on
all the controverted questions I discuss in this book.

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