England and Germany in the War Letters to the Department of State

1915. This book comprises a series of letters addressed to the Secretary of State by Mr. Robert J. Thompson, recently American consul at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, who resigned his post, as the letters explain, purposely to be free from official restrictions in reporting facts of the European war situation as he has found them. Contents: Original Letter to Secretary of State; Resignation; Germany's Rise and England's Decline; Diplomacy's Isolation of Germany; Sea vs. Land Militarism; Certain Aspects of German Culture; Atrocities on the Field and in the Press; The Blood of America; and The Attitude and Duty of America.