Her finance was intertwined with that of London and Paris.
In the United States she was the greatest loser.

Here taxes were lowest and freedom greatest.

German blood flowed in the veins of 20,000,000 Americans and not one fourth of them could she call her own.
The biggest newspaper publisher in America, William Randolph Hearst, figured that New York was one of the big German cities of the world.
He turned his giant presses to capture the German sentiment.

He spent tens of thousands of dollars upon German cable news, devoting at times a whole page to cable presentations from Europe which he thought would interest Germans.

But the investment proved fruitless; he found there was in America no German sentiment such as he had reckoned upon.