HUN INFLUENCE IN. THE STATES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15756, 24 November 1916, Page 5

HUN INFLUENCE IN. THE STATES.

— ♦ MILLIONS SPENT ON PROPAGANDA WORK. Many are the privato citizens of the | United States who have contrasted the persistent and assiduous efforts made by Germany to influence public opinion in America with the abscnce of any effort on the part of England to combat this pestilent activity. Further testimony of the same kind is furnisjhed in the letter of. an American lady received last month by a friend living in London. She writes: "We s are a strange country. Germany has rotted America through and through with a vast and subtle infiltration of ingenious stories, suggestions, flatteries, distortions, .until the simpleminded man here doesn't know whether he is on his political head or his heels. "But there are thousands in New England, indeed hundreds of thousands in the country altogether, who arc passionately pro-Ally—some people say nine-tenths of the country. . . . "The country is trembling under the goad of Germain flattery, German fluctuations. Germany-in-Ireland, Ger-many-in-Washiugton, Germany-in-Mexi-co, Germany-in-Canada, and all this fa the face of a sometimes seemingly acquiescent silence on the part of England—namely, her total inactivity so far as propaganda goes. "Everyone is flooded with pro-Ger-man literature; it is left on your doorstep, comes in. your mail-bag; if you have a servant with a Teutonic name there are equivalent copies in German addressed to him or her- ' "Millions, millions, millions of money poured out in a never-ceasing flood to change the opinion and the heart of this land towards England. "Is it a wonder that we, as a nation, are undecided? England has been too proud or too right or too inexperienced to explain herself. But she did not know the adversary she was to deal with. "I believe now there is a faint attempt at organised denial of some of the accusations made against her. I hope it is not too late. . . . But, at any rate, pro-British feeling where it does exist is a burning and passionate loyalty.'i