Poem ~ Protests of German-Americans - Wednesday, 7 April 1915

Impression Sketch of Cover of Fatherland April 7th 1915 - By Jamie Mann the original can be viewed at: <http://www.rarenonfiction.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=179566> [Accessed: 7 April 2015]

Directed towards the seat of American Power,

Was raised an organisation,

By American Germans, regarding a petition

For the facilitation of food parcels -

Insisting that they be sent onto Central Empire.

Directed towards the seat of American Power,

Was raised an organisation,

By American Germans - regarding a petition

For the facilitation of food parcels -

Insisting that they be sent onto Central Empire.

In an April issue of The Fatherland newspaper,

Came statement by Dr. Dernburg -

The reaction being one of great displeasure,

How the postmaster General

Had made open refusal to accept their parcels.

These parcels being separated, at the senders

Risk  - The Fatherland’s angered

Statement, believed that such allied confiscation

Would be easily made for parcels

To be kept by Britain - showing how America

Lies about its own neutrality.

Giving into British demands, merely provided

Aid to enemies of German

And Austria Hungary - America’s neutrality

Is therefore fake - a counter

Theory was German American reply as false.

The Fatherland argument centred over the British

Blockade, in trying to gain

American sympathy, over a situation regarding

Starvation in the fatherland;

Their reason, as a lack of fairness in US Press.

With German American backed monies, to total

£400,000, ready to hand over

To the USA - to create a great and new fearless

’Independent Newspaper’;

The reality likely to be a Germany backed plan.

The real intention was a substantial newspaper

Controlled by German Americans -

In promotion of their Fatherland's propaganda -

Other American papers were

Already on their side - so no single paper could

Be accused of lacking fair play.

By Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. German Americans - Monster Food Petition. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 7 Apr. P.4. Col.2. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11514470/Daily-Telegraph-April-7-1915.html. [Accessed: 7 April 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 7 April 2015). 

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