What I want especially to impress upon the people of the United States is that we are at war because Germany invaded the United States—an invasion insidiously conceived and vigorously prosecuted for years before hostilities began;—that this war is our war;—that the sanctity of American freedom and of the American home depend upon what we do NOW.

James W. Gerard.

New York,
April First, 1918.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I]Personality of the Kaiser and Something of the King Business[13]
[II]Who Does the Kaiser's Thinking and Who Decided on the Break with America?[32]
[III]Who Sank the "Lusitania"?[42]
[IV]The Kaiser and "Lèse-Majesté"[49]
[V]When the Kaiser Thought We Were Bluffing[55]
[VI]The Inside of German Diplomacy[73]
[VII]Germany's Plan to Attack America[84]
[VIII]Germany's Early Plots in Mexico[111]
[IX]The Kultur of Kaiserdom—The German Soul[129]
[X]The Little Kaisers[143]
[XI]Royalty's Recreation[148]
[XII]The Eternal Feminine[157]
[XIII]Home Life and "Brutality" of the People[166]
[XIV]Aims of the Autocracy[174]
[XV]Austria-Hungary—the Kaiser's Vassal State[196]
[XVI]German Influence on the Northern Neutrals[217]
[XVII]Switzerland—Another Kind of Neutral[230]
[XVIII]A Glimpse of France[237]
[XIX]My Interview with the King of Spain[251]
[XX]German Spies and Their Methods[263]
[XXI]En Route Home—Kaiserism in America[273]
[XXII]That Interview with the Kaiser[300]
[XXIII]The Future Kaiser—The Crown Prince and His Brothers[312]
[XXIV]When Germany Will Break Down[323]
[XXV]The Errors of Efficient Germany[340]
[XXVI]President Wilson and Peace[346]
[XXVII]After the War, What?[368]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
[The Kaiser and von Treutler]Frontispiece
[The Iron Cross]36
[The United States Embassy Staff, Berlin]50
[Facsimile of an Order Issued by Commander of German Prison Camp of Doeberitz]78
[Cover of Pamphlet by John L. Stoddard]104
[Photograph Taken in Courtyard of Embassy, August, 1916]126
[Example of a Commemorative Medal Offered for Sale]152
[Views of a Typical Holstein Country Home]188
[Main Stairway in the American Embassy, Berlin]210
[Ambassadors Sharp and Gerard, Paris, February, 1917]240
[The "Infanta Isabella"]274
[Photograph Taken after Banquet Given Ambassador Gerard on January 6th, 1917]304
[The Crown Prince and Crown Princess]316
[Reproduction of Zeppelin Post Card of Patriotic Sentiment]336
[Zeppelin Post Card Sold in Germany]336