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CHAPTER IV: "My Army of Spies"
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Certain localities in one of the river counties of Iowa (for instance) were spots of German treason to the United States.
The "exchange professors" that came from Berlin to Harvard and other universities were so many camouflaged spies.

Certain prominent American citizens, dined and wined and flattered by the Kaiser for his purpose, women as well as men, came back here mere Kaiser-puppets, hypnotized by royalty.

His bidding was done in as many ways as would fill a book.
Shopkeepers did it, servants did it, Americans among us were decorated by him for doing it.

Even after the Armistice, a school textbook "got by" the Board of Education in a western state, wherein our boys and girls were to be taught a German version--a Kaiser version--of Germany.
Somebody protested, and the board explained that it "hadn't noticed," and the book was held up.
We cannot, I fear, order the school histories in Germany to be edited by the Allies.

German school children will grow up believing, in all prob-ability, that bombs were dropped near Nurnberg in July, 1914, that German soil was invaded, that the Fatherland fought a war of defense; they will certainly be nourished by lies in the future as they were nourished by lies in the past.


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