GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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13a - 22 - In this struggle with the German and Irish organizations, to which the Hindus also joined, one went on: Germany and Austria did not do anything but to provoke strikes in America and thus to restrict the supply of the Allied armies, but Germany went even further and wanted Mexico to drag the United States into the war. It organized secret organizations that blew up munitions factories, bridges, ships, etc., and so on, so that he wanted to:eichen what he did not succeed in by the vain strikes. So a million-dollars of factories and machines were destroyed, yes, many lives, they went even further and tried to supply the German submarines in the Atlantic from the American shores. All of this was known: we knew. We knew what they were doing, what they would do and what they'd do. We had a confidant organization, which included members of the Austrian Consulate, the Austrian and the German authorities, Es va: John R.Rathom, who participated in various wars and had the best experience in this campaign against the German organisations. To list everything that our trusted men's organization has done would not only cost hours of sondeon days. It was the work of four years, and every single case is so interesting and contentful that it would take a very long time to touch the details. I will only say the most important thing, America was German- and Austrian-friendly at the beginning of the World War, the most influential diplomats in Washington were the Berliian Ambassador Bernstorff and the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador Dumba. They worked on a whole array of senators, congressional members and pergons who sat in the American government offices and were either Irish or German. In the period from mid-September 1914 to September 1915, this America felt for Deutsc aland was transformed into an allied friendly country, largely due to the merit of the Czech organization of Czech trust: