For many months, Professor Kellogg lived with Germany’s military leaders in the West, worked with them, argued with them, learned from their own lips their aims and principles of life. He saw the workings of German autocracy among the people it had crushed, heard German methods defended by some of the ablest men in the Kaiser’s empire, tried in vain to understand the German point of view.
“Quite four nights of each seven in the week,” he says, “there were other staff officers in to dinner, and we debated such trifles as German Militarismus, the hate of the world for Germany, American munitions for the Allies, submarining and Zeppelining, the Kaiser, the German people.”
These “headquarters nights,” and the days he spent trying to assuage the misery caused by the German military system, brought about “the conversion of a pacifist to an ardent supporter, not of War, but of this war; of fighting this war to a definitive end—that end to be Germany’s conversion to be a good Germany or not much of any Germany at all.”
One of the most graphic pictures of the German attitude, the attitude which rendered this war inevitable, is contained in Vernon Kellogg’s Headquarters Nights. It is a convincing, and an evidently truthful, exposition of the shocking, the unspeakably dreadful, moral and intellectual perversion of character which makes Germany at present a menace to the whole civilized world.
Theodore Roosevelt.
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY AND THE GREAT WAR
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