washington with this consulate offices in new york to start this magazine, the fatherland, george sylvester varick, german-american poetess hired and this was basically a pro-german propaganda sheet. very cleverly done, claimed 100,000 american readers within a few months. now obviously, a large contingent of the readers here are german-american to feel proud. they see no reason to denigrate their home countries military ambitions. after all, france, england and germany cannot be claiming to follow their patriotic destiny. and in fact, new york about what i was trying to say before, what i meant to say is that the turn-of-the-century, new york city was the third-largest german-speaking community and the world after berlin and vienna. their 750,000 non-german-americans in new york city. so there is a pride. this is also an attempt by the german government without being open about it because it is covert initially that they found us to counter what is seen as anglophilia, the pro-english and pro-french feeling that they see as emanating out of new york city, under this media, under wall street and p