Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72/2629

The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Berlin, April 24, 1916, noon .
[Received April 25, 8 p. m.]

3800. There is a quiet conflict on between Military and Navy on one side and many sincere Germans on the other side who advocate a decent conduct of submarine war. Last number of Maximilian Harden’s magazine entitled If I Were Wilson has just been confiscated [Page 242] by military authorities. It had been on sale some days and in it Harden claimed that the President was right and had only made proper claims against Germany.

Gerard