Sunday, May 12, 2013

Ill-Timed Anglophobia.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 12, 1913:
Muensterberg Speech May Be Embarrassing to Germany.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, May 11.— A good deal of attention has been attracted here by Prof. Münsterberg's New York speech decrying the approaching celebration of the Anglo-American peace centenary as part and parcel of "perfidious Albion's" scheme for the eventual demolition of Germany.
    Owing to the Whitsuntide holidays it will be impossible until Tuesday to get an official expression of opinion as to the Harvard psychologist's unofficial diplomacy. It may safely be asserted in advance that such gratuitous expressions are highly unwelcome to the Kaiser's Government at this particular moment, when efforts in the direction of an Anglo-German rapprochement are in full swing and on the eve of the much-heralded visit to Berlin of King George and Queen Mary on the occasion of the wedding of the Princess Victoria Luise.

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